Givenchy Resort 2022 Paris

[Nomar]

That artist collaboration is absolutely hideous, it ruined the whole collection for me. If you remove that then I actually don't mind most of it and I can also appreciate that at least Matthew's direction for Givenchy has been very consistent.

Design-wise I think that his womenswear is so much stronger than his fashion victim menswear. They really need to edit that.

 

[jeanclaude]

this "Kamikaze rock& roll suicide" collection is less tragic than what I was expecting. Guys, you need to have more sex in your lives to diminish the negativity you keep spitting all around.
These are bad times and the point, to make honest observations is: is this modern= in syntony with these times?
Yes, it is! Just admit it...

I could become into a sex-addict...and this collection would remain feeling as anorgasmic as it feels now.

 

[susseinmcswanny]

this "Kamikaze rock& roll suicide" collection is less tragic than what I was expecting. Guys, you need to have more sex in your lives to diminish the negativity you keep spitting all around.
These are bad times and the point, to make honest observations is: is this modern= in syntony with these times?
Yes, it is! Just admit it...

If by modern you mean it's poorly designed merchandise by someone who has no idea what he's doing and is only at a fashion house for attention and money then yeah it is pretty modern

 

[dior_couture1245]

If by modern you mean it's poorly designed merchandise by someone who has no idea what he's doing and is only at a fashion house for attention and money then yeah it is pretty modern

Modern is a banana taped to the wall and called art and expecting me to value it the same way I would, say, the Sistine Chapel. It’s asking me to accept “WAP” as music when we could have had a symphony instead.

Modern means nothing to me when this is modernity. Modernity is not a value when modern life is this valueless.

 

[Boeroe Sanka PhiloFashion]

Boys and Girls : Our problem is somehow to ask for, How I can explain that, Something better (?) but what power do we have to respond against those conglomerates powerhouses? Truly no contract material against them to change their minds. I tell you something: 3 Decembers ago I was in Paris, at Primtemps, watching a couple choosing shoes at Roger Vivier, downstairs, in a really dismissed basement that surprised me it had the allure to sell 4000 euros shoes. They were Asians and the cute male, who was clearly a repressed homosexual abusive against her young wife. Only thing she could do was model those HORRIBLE shoes. The young male had the last word about it. My female companion just said , after we were spying for a while and Mr couldn't decide if he had to chose the shoes his wife was compelled to wear or keeping cheking my croach ( no interest at all for my spectacular friend... young woman, to be clear!) Know your costumers! Since Lucrezia is still very young, she shocked me to the point I become cynical for the rest of my days! Many chrystals, strass , christmas tree decorations shoes chez Roger Vivier.... Not long after ( thanks God I had some travelling done before the lockdown...) I went in via Condotti, Rome, just to watch hanging in their window, a Gucci pink pijama, with flowers and embracing Micky Mouses and Minnies. What did I do? I took a pic and I've sended to my sister, just to let her see how wrong the Fashion situation was. In the meanwhile I've seen also very beautiful things at Valentino's and Fendi's window, that I liked a lot,but I didn't take any pic: the Gucci sh*t was so outrageus at a point I was so distracted not let me follow my instincs and it took over all my attention . My point is: Rich criminals ( for sure) are the customers of 7000 euros Gucci pijamas and 0000 crystal shoes: they pay, so they get what they want & deserve! Second : all my supposed good taste ( I've studied, you know ...) is worth nothing since me, mysel I m not capable to affirm it even to myself and my close ones. Business first! What remains for myn kind is just watch, survive, be alert to find what it really deserve apprecietion....

 

[Melancholybaby]

^This is the kind of fashion-related content that can only be found on tFS and I love this place for it.

I couldn't agree more and it reminds me of one of Mulletproof's posts a while back- everyone in this community (which...granted is a very tiny, heterogeneous slice of people interested in the already tiny niche that is ~high fashion) seems to be frustrated with the current state of affairs (lack of innovation/appreciation for dressmaking/design/pushing clothes forward, fashion/media coverage being taken up the huge brands backed by conglomerates with products designed by AI and marketing departments etc.) and rightly so, yet Virginie's or MGC's latest snoozer of a collection will spark longer threads, more posts and discussion here than any above average showing by a respected independent designer (Yohji, Rick...). We despise the current iterations of Chanel, Dior, how they have taken over every aspect of designer fashion representation that matters in fashion consumers' minds yet we are happy to invest time and thought and effort talking about them, picking apart the flaws, pondering on possible successors. And when the average luxury fashion consumer seems more than happy to queue in the freezing cold outside a Chanel boutique (couldn't believe it till I saw it with my own eyes) just to be offered the opportunity to purchase a €5,000 handbag that will grant them access to this invisible club bound together by the ~house codes/heritage...it's fair to say this is the conglomerates' doing, but the conglomerates reacting to us consumers' behaviours/interests. In my mind Matthew Williams should be heading the accessories department at Von Dutch, yet here he is...creative director of a French Haute Couture house without a shred of experience in dressmaking and that's because of us too, not just some executive board's whim.

 

[MulletProof]

^ yeah, I want to think it's 50/50 (consumer & conglomerate) but I also know it has not been a series of short-term hype strategies and imposing a bunch of charlatans without any interest in individualism on top of these houses, it's been a long-term project of turning around any contempt or distrust towards corporatocracy, and making the average consumer (who may not have ever harbored any minimal interest towards high fashion) pay close attention (through things like.. identity politics lol and then the usual weakness towards hype as seen on tfs and the anticipation over any appointment in any big house) and channel this into making them believe his modest consumer interests are reciprocal and even represented well by the big interests of a corporation. It's a bit hilarious to be honest, but also.. these strategies can be truly overpowering and invasive, so I'd say the consumer is not even 40% at fault, but there is ongoing complicity...


I have to say.. I don't see anything particularly grotesque or horrific in this collection, it's just so... outdated, this looks just like the looks these lookbook.nu bloggers would put together ~inspired by Givenchy Fall 2009~. It truly looks like something Tisci did 11 years ago (the Charlotte Russe version, that is) before he discovered the Kardashians..