Givenchy Haute Couture S/S 2011 Paris

[Ohara]

This one does not differ much from the previous season's, save the embellishments. And even the embellishments are not creative. It is too early in this designer's career to be stuck.

 

[ScarlettLover]

now THIS is couture! I love it. The color combo with the neon is so amazing!

 

[Spiral1532]

I guess this is fascinating for the Western culture, but if you're Asian and grew up around lacquered wood furniture embellished with mother of pearl crane and swan and phoenix motifs, this comes off as cliched and borders on costumey (although that top honor goes to Maison Martin Margiela HC so far...).

I mean I know HC can be changed and tailored to suit the client, but even then you got an evening gown with some birds on it.

indeed

 

[bluedolphin]

love the dress in du juan ,amazing

 

[pitumpah]

f*****g stunning!
i cant get enough of those colors too, and i usually hate green and yellow...

 

[MulletProof]

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[4n98]

the details are dreamy.
while the hat is to dramatic.

 

[Womanolo]

I saw some of this collection from the front and went 'Ooh.'. Then I saw it from the back and went 'wooheugh'. WTF is with the half Red Indian look at the very far left, then the hats?

 

[Meg2109]

The hats are interesting...I can't help but think of Japanese cartoon?

If we took them aside, you'd see this as an extension of his last couture collection a lot more fluidly. They are rather distracting, but necessary in that manner.

 

[dior_couture1245]

Leave it to Tim Blanks to tell it like it is.

The last time Riccardo Tisci showed a couture collection for Givenchy, the zipper pulls were bones. This season, they were wings. Fashion's favorite goth took flight with a new obsession: Japan. Not the land of obis and geishas, he said, but the Japan of robot toys and the dancer Kazuo Ohno, whose intensely ritualized style of performance, called Butoh, was a huge influence on Tisci's friend, the singer Antony Hegarty. When Ohno died, Antony and the Johnsons performed a tribute concert that so inspired Tisci, the dead man became a sort of muse for the designer. And this was the result. According to Tisci, Ohno provided the romance, the melancholy, and the palette (the color of dried flowers). Robots, meanwhile, influenced the appliqués, the shoes, and the huge hats by Philip Treacy (couple this with Armani last night, and Treacy is clearly the go-to guy for sci-fi headgear).

The detail was as crazily consuming as last season's. One outfit required 2,000 hours of cutting and 4,000 hours of sewing. A single pair of trousers had 90 meters of plissé. On this scale, appreciation of the clothes as they solemnly rotated from hangers in a reverentially hushed salon on the Place Vendôme became an almost academic exercise, like examining works of art in a gallery. Maybe not such a bad analogy, given the extraordinary appliqué on a bolero that crossed a robot's face with a Catholic cross, or the organza that was laser-cut and appliquéd on layers of chiffon and tulle to create a three-dimensional spread of vermilion wings. One gown featured a Japanese crane, again appliquéd, that rose phoenixlike from a cloud of feathers. Massive bird's wings were folded across a sheer skirt. The Swarovski crystals and pearls that were crusted on the bodice of another dress began to pop like fish eyes as the dress moved.

The craft was undeniable, though in the end, like Ohno's favorite dried flowers, the clothes lacked some of the rude life that Tisci stuffed into his recent menswear collection.

(style.com)

 

[mikeijames]

to think back to his initial appointment to the house of givenchy that some of the fashion flock questioned whether or not tisci had the vision and talent to take on a couture house of this stature. let forever those critics be silent. it's quite frustrating, however, to find even among his fans some state that they don't find this collection dazzling enough or perhaps even hackneyed when just one year ago we witnessed purple bubble dresses and velvet pantsuits. this man has proven he belongs in the company of the lagerfelds and the gaultiers and the gallianos of the world. he's street enough to give us dog printed oversized t-shirts yet he's visionary enough to deliver this collection which looks like an oil painting it's so fantastic.

and unlike some couturiers of note, there's not one dress here so out-of-the-ordinary that it couldn't get worn tomorrow -- sans hats, of course -- to a red carpet event.

 

[Menace]

I really have no words to describe my enthusiasm and appreciation for this collection.

Just ****ing amazing.

 

[Meg2109]

to think back to his initial appointment to the house of givenchy that some of the fashion flock questioned whether or not tisci had the vision and talent to take on a couture house of this stature. let forever those critics be silent. it's quite frustrating, however, to find even among his fans some state that they don't find this collection dazzling enough or perhaps even hackneyed when just one year ago we witnessed purple bubble dresses and velvet pantsuits. this man has proven he belongs in the company of the lagerfelds and the gaultiers and the gallianos of the world. he's street enough to give us dog printed oversized t-shirts yet he's visionary enough to deliver this collection which looks like an oil painting it's so fantastic.

and unlike some couturiers of note, there's not one dress here so out-of-the-ordinary that it couldn't get worn tomorrow -- sans hats, of course -- to a red carpet event.

I agree 100%

 

[Janard Williams]

wish we could have saw it in motion!

 

[IAmLordZen]

reminds me of a childhood i spent watching cartoons and power rangers.

but i don't see anything remotely beautiful in all these, i tried to find points of appreciation, as always, because last season's collection made my jaw drop. i don't see the fine craftsmanship so many others here say. the hats were absolutely hideous, the neon details at the back are like the plastic 'wings' of toy robots i played with in my childhood pasted garishly on the models' backs. the plastic zipper details too is a 'meh' IMO, it cheapens the rather opulent look infinitely especially when juxtaposed next to the sheer fabrics. this dress combined with this hat totally reminds me of Rita Repulsa in her own wedding dress. which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just that if this has been done more tastefully and with less gimmick, i think i would have liked it.

 

[Bonbonenata]

I'm a little bit disappointed. It's too similar to the last couture collection. My favorite thing about couture is the uniqueness. In this collection I don't see it. Yeah, I really like the embroidery, but it's the same place, same ideas... Boring and disappointing to me.

 

[Zazie]

This is the most beautiful yet modern couture collection! The detail techniques are breath-taking and the origami folds simple but effective.

 

[Squizree]

It's a such a shame because the dresses are so glorious but those headpieces ruin it. They're like a last resort attempt at trying to "go Japanese". Come on Ric, you could do better.

 

[selfmachine]

absolutely amazing work

 

[lepip]

I really was not done seeing his last couture collection. So I'm so glad he is treading a similar path this time. I don't think couture has to dramatically change from season to season like RTW, that's why he has his RTW collection.

It is what it is. Couture. Costume, Dramatic, embroidered and embellished within an inch of its life, red-carpet ready, not red-carpet ready because of the costumy hats.

In my opinion it translates perfectly and incredibly.
And better than last time