Frida Giannini - Designer

[Cocteau Stone]

I can see Charlotte Tilbury in the clothes. That's all I can see actually. For something that had been given some okay publicity, it's pretty crap. Zara level, and shopfloor Zara not Zara campaign by Meisel/Templar/Baron Zara.

 

[Lola701]

After all these years, this is what she gives us?

People celebrated Mr Slimane for not evolving. Why think that Mrs Giannini would. She has an ego too.
I hope all the revisionists made the collection sold out by now…

 

[Kanzai]

It’s Frida Gianni, she’s not even a good designer to begin with, I just don’t get the expectations. There are so many once great designers from her generation that still working and even then, they don’t always please us. Frida (at best) is on Stellar McCartney tier.

 

[Avonlea]

It's a capsule collection for liberty's own line. It's fine for what it is. The nelson coat and the long dress in red velvet are pretty. Pants are obviously horrible.
Frida is much more talented than Stella. She can do great accessories, that's her strength. Stella has no strengths. She is just there.

 

[Lola701]

Unpopular opinion: Stella is a better designer than Frida.

 

[brandon J pierre]

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Unpopular opinion: Stella is a better designer than Frida.

Oh no how can you compare there two different they're catering two too different types of women.

 

[Lola701]

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Oh no how can you compare there two different they're catering two too different types of women.

You think so?
They display a very different representation of women but at their core, their clothes are feminine, they are into tailoring and they share something about Glamour and fun.

Stella is more imaginative in her style. I used to buy Stella’s clothes a lot back in the days. Good tailoring, amazing knitwear, great dresses.
Frida is the queen of accessories and she understand luxury.

However, I would say that what made me say that Stella is a better designer is because I need clothes to take me somewhere. Frida was very pragmatic in a MGC’s way. It was so much about the presentation that it never went deep in the clothes.

But I would say it and maybe it’s because of commercial success but I think Frida is much more confident in her style than Stella is. But when you look at their work during the same period, I take Stella…

 

[brandon J pierre]

You think so?
They display a very different representation of women but at their core, their clothes are feminine, they are into tailoring and they share something about Glamour and fun.

Stella is more imaginative in her style. I used to buy Stella’s clothes a lot back in the days. Good tailoring, amazing knitwear, great dresses.
Frida is the queen of accessories and she understand luxury.

However, I would say that what made me say that Stella is a better designer is because I need clothes to take me somewhere. Frida was very pragmatic in a MGC’s way. It was so much about the presentation that it never went deep in the clothes.

But I would say it and maybe it’s because of commercial success but I think Frida is much more confident in her style than Stella is. But when you look at their work during the same period, I take Stella…

It's Gucci how deep can you go , alessandro went deep, and look at how that turned out, frida was for vanity and that's good.

 

[Scotty]

Realistically, there are only very few designers who know how to switch it up and evolve.

I mean, look at the three major Kering designers. Just doing the same thing under a different house.

 

[Lola701]

It's Gucci how deep can you go , alessandro went deep, and look at how that turned out, frida was for vanity and that's good.

I mean she could have. That’s what commercial success is supposed to afford to designers: go for it.
I think Tom Ford was a better designer in 2001 than in 1995. Marc Jacobs’s clothes became more ambitious after the Murakami collection. Nicolas’s clothes took another dimension when he renewed his contract for the first time.

There’s something deceptively sad about Frida’s last collection for Gucci.

But Frida wasn’t a good cast anyway. Alessandra wasn’t ambitious enough, Frida wanted more. She did good for Gucci in a way that her tenure didn’t hurt the brand but I think her work would have been appreciated differently if she was elsewhere.

 

[Lola701]

Realistically, there are only very few designers who know how to switch it up and evolve.

I mean, look at the three major Kering designers. Just doing the same thing under a different house.

And it’s a bit sad. It’s probably a sign of a time too.
This is what fascinates me about some designers’s work. I think about the path of Gaultier for example, who started as a provocateur to end up being part of the establishment, doing Couture and doing Hermes. There was something interesting about the career of Margiela too. He was a quite different designer in 2008 than he was in 2000. Even Gianni. There was something very poignant about the purity of his 2 last season or Lee McQueen.

That’s what I find interesting and what makes me invested in a designer’s work…Beyond liking it or not.

It’s almost sad to think that someone like Michele has said everything already. It makes me question the concept of creativity if your work cannot evolve as you are getting older.

Good or bad, I totally love the fact that Phoebe or Nicolas are not the same as they were 25 years ago. It’s great that Rei’s expression through fashion is not the same as in 2005.

Here we have Frida coming back with the fall version of her SS2015 collection. Come on’