Givenchy S/S 2012 Paris

[kiddokiddo]

Not the best (like his Fall 2007) but certainly a good collection from Ricardo, with all his signatures reinterpreted without the gimmicks.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

i love what Maria Carla is wearing, also the army green looks

 

[Squizree]

The best thing about this collection is that it feels like Tisci has let loose a bit. He often over-thinks his pieces which results in a really synthetic collection. But this feels so natural and unforced for him. Not to mention this collection will sell like beef schnitzel.

 

[imagensfashions]

AMAZING COLLECTION!!

 

[Fiercification]

This collection bores me to death...minus the necklaces. I am happy that he reined in the whole 'urban excess' that Givenchy was becoming under Tisci, but this is a little too restrained for me.

 

[marjanthelion]

i love this collection, especially the choice of models

 

[fantastical]

love it. no more needs to be said.

 

[helmut.newton]

A beautiful, elegant and very Parisian collection. Everything is perfect. The details are so beautiful; looks like he took a lot from his own archives at Givenchy (haute couture collections particularly).

And on another note: this collection completely negates the most recent things he has done for Givenchy. This is so beautiful, those panther / printed items look stale already. I pity the woman who bought into that ridiculous trendiness!

 

[IsabelMarantBoy]

The best thing about this collection is that it feels like Tisci has let loose a bit. He often over-thinks his pieces which results in a really synthetic collection. But this feels so natural and unforced for him. Not to mention this collection will sell like beef schnitzel.

That's exactly how I feel. I felt like his last two collections were so overwrought and thought out, they were devoid of any feeling. When he first worked with pattern in Fall 2010 I didn't think much of it, and I liked it. But Spring and Fall 2011 were so about print overload I couldn't take it

 

[pen6693]

Probably the only collection I liked this fashion week.

 

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Accessories! (style.com)

 

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.... style.com

 

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.... style.com

 

[Zazie]

Am I the only one who feels like I'm looking at the same thing over and over again? Beyond that first great outfit with the flounce, there's NOTHING else. The other interesting outfits are variations on the exact same flounced peplum front. And those "skirts" hanging by a chain are really stupid.

 

[CrisGalaxy]

is it okay to point out that some of the pieces look like vaginas...?
they're beautiful

it reminds me of that old gucci collection back when tom ford was creative director (or was it ysl) where he made penis necklaces and vaginas on the dresses...

 

[educo]

Beautiful and straight to the point. I could turn my eye from a few pieces, (those skirts hoisted over by a chain) but overall I like that the tailoring is visually evident throughout the collection.

 

[Vitamine W]

Am I the only one who feels like I'm looking at the same thing over and over again? Beyond that first great outfit with the flounce, there's NOTHING else. The other interesting outfits are variations on the exact same flounced peplum front. And those "skirts" hanging by a chain are really stupid.

^ Erhm...yeah....If this would have been shown by Aquilano & Rimondi or Costume N. they would have been slayed. I'm so disappointed by this, I wanted to have a fashion moment...........
but of course everybody is fawning over this.

 

[balmain1914]

this is a money maker collection for LVMH

 

[rox_yr_sox]

Finally a Givenchy rtw collection that I actually like after all the seasons of embarrassment. I like the influence that minimalism has had on this; so clean and beautifully tailored. And best casting this season too.

 

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Review by Cathy Horyn from nytimes

As for Givenchy, I thought Riccardo Tisci did a good job sticking to a sharp, sexy message. The show had a tenacious quality, rather, in fact, like a shark — one of the sea creatures that served as a reference. Yet Mr. Tisci didn’t overplay the water-world element, despite what I expected from the press notes, nor did he get hung up on the rock of drippy romance. (Admittedly I wanted to take scissors to the dangly bits on a few dresses. Seaweed-inspired or mermaid? Does it matter?) Shark, eel, stingray and sea wolf were among the textural materials, but you were more aware of how things worked in unison with the neutral palette and the confident attitude.

Of course, it helps when your show opens with Natalia Vodianova, closes with Gisele Bundchen and includes Frankie Rayder and Karolina Kurkova. Many of the opening dresses and close-fitting jackets suggested skin-diving gear, with back flaps, or were cut on the curve and banded in satin or some other material. When Mr. Tisci did ruffles, he made them look graphically extreme, cluttering the fronts of blouses or the edge of a jacket. Also strong were slim olive skirts and matching polo shirts in leopard-spotted sea wolf.