Gucci S/S 11 Milan

[disco54]

suzy menkes is for IHT , hilary for Telegraph , of the 2 i like , I prefer Hillary , but over all I think Cathy horyn is the queen bee in fashion critique

 

[Label Basher]

Suzy wrote it was Frida's most powerful collection so far...

WHAT? Suzy don't make me come over there and ruin your bouffant. Take it back.

Call me snobby but I really only care to read what Cathy, Suzy and Hillary have to say when it comes to the professionals (english language reviews that is). Tim is ok and so is Lisa Armstrong but the others are usually just sycophants. At least Cathy is afraid to get blacklisted.

 

[williscrazy]

the collection is horrid... it is like three shows all being put into one, and they don't even complement each other... those fringes are overloaded, it destroy a simple leather jacket...

Gucci for me, is slowly becoming try hard and uninspiring rather than sexy and powerful... and it doesn't transfer either in their campaign.

 

[dodencebt]

Honestly.. I hated this.
It's so Louis Vuitton Spring 2009. From head to toe! Starting from the color palette, to the badly copied accessories. And shoes, wtf?! Jesus Christ, those shoes are so 2000!

 

[Laritournelle]

There's something I dislike strongly but I can't put my finger on it.

 

[mikeijames]

this is the italian equivalent of the marc jacobs collection if i've ever seen it. it had the gucci trademarks, but it seemed purposefully intent on jumping into the seventies' trend with its cohorts across the pond. while not entirely unsuccessful, it only achieved greatness when it tended toward memories of tom ford and away from this casual wind blowing though fashion at the moment.

 

[KatherineCouture]

Some pieces are great. Can't wait to see the advertising campaign, i think it will be amazing

 

[VersaceLuva586]

Wow at the hate for this collection. I think it was really hot, especially the beginning pieces!

And as i said previously....the models were working the clothes!!

 

[balmain1914]

Style.com's review is definitely a joek,
no doubt.

 

[Tentacl Ventricl]

Vogue editors are the worst !!! Cathy is the best of the critiques and she is right the vast majority of the time. Cathy has a lot of knowledge more than any of other editors i have read over the years . Her dose of reality is always welcoming .

Christ yes where do Conde Nast find these dunderheads. And they seem to be getting worse. Mere factual description is of no value whatsoever in the image age. We can see what you're telling us you fools. I don't expect poetics from the middle market but at least some sort of analysis perrrlease.

Yes, Frida was a magpie of derivation here. It didn't work, wasn't coherent. SS10 pisses on this tasteless hotch-potch. File under major dissappointment.

 

[Spike413]

I really don't get why everyone is always, season after season, hard on the writers of Style.com. They're neutral, they always have been and they always will be. Accept that and you won't be disappointed when they don't rip a designer a new one.

 

[softgrey]

*somebody's been spending WAY too much time in the YSL archives...
...
my jaw literally dropped when i first looked at this...
i know that YSL is a major influence on everything we know as modern dressing and that there are innumerable designers working today who cite him as a reference and an inspiration...
but this is too much!>...
it's just far too literal a translation of the YSL vocabulary...
and it's not done with any subtlety or finesse...

*it IS three different shows...
3 different YSL shows...

1-gypsy/russian peasant gone disco
2- safari
3-tribal

the direct reference to YSL is what holds the whole thing together...
this is so blatantly obvious, i almost feel silly pointing it out...

bizarrely...
i also think that this is probably the best collection to come from gucci since tom ford left...which is unfortunate, because it basically looks like tom ford came back and tried to channel YSL, as he did before and, failed miserably, once again...

*you just KNOW that his own collection has some of these same references even if we didn't see the presentation...
it's already been reported that he did some version of YSL's 'le smoking'...

deja vu anyone?...


ugh...it's so weird, it's almost creepy...
the ghost of YSL ...meets the ghost of versace...equals gucci 2011?...huh?

**stay tuned for anna dello russo wearing one of those fringed numbers with a pair of antlers on her head...

 

[honeyisle]

Frida always gets panned no matter what.

I liked it.

 

[Squizree]

^ That's because she'll always be producing trivial clothing no matter what.

 

[chloehandbags]

Apart from the crotches of most of the trousers, I really like most of this.

I think harem pants are fine, but this is not the right way to cut them, at all.

As a teenager in the late '80s, I had a gorgeous coral silk pair by InWear and they were cut a lot better than this!

Having said that, I think Frida is given a very hard time, on here and most of it seems to stem from the fact that she is, somehow, blamed for TF being unceromoniously booted out and that seems pretty unfair, to me, as I don't think she was to blame for that, was she?

After all, you can't really help it if you happen to remain at a company and are then put in charge, after someone else has been fired, can you?

What was she supposed to do? Resign in protest?

OK, I know a lot of you feel that she is 'merely' an accessories designer and I do understand that it must grate on the nerves of clothing designers when accessories designers are given jobs that are rightfully theirs, but the people who should be blamed for that are the management and owners of the huge conglomerates that run fashion, these days.

Fair enough if you genuinely just really don't like any of the clothes, or feel she has no talent at all, but I think most of the reactions here go a lot deeper than that, TBH, as I really don't think this would have been so universally panned, if it had been designed by anyone else.

 

[honeyisle]

^ That's because she'll always be producing trivial clothing no matter what.

It's very commercial so it'll sell(and be knocked off) which is what we've come to expect from Frida. I'm not surprised by the lack of originality but I liked it for what it was.

*sigh*

 

[Wolkfolk]

Very Good collection. I've always difficulties in appreciating her collections. It takes me a lot of time to appreciate her designs , because her style doen'st appeal to me at all. Only the campaigns can make me change my mind.
But this time I've to say that I'm really pleased by what I see. Great color palette, great accessories, overall a severe look which results to an extremly sexy woman. Frida did what people expected ffom her because, this will sell!!
On the other hand, its true that the obvious copying process is a bit disappointing. And the"editing"makes it even more obvious. The three sections looked like three different archive collections, modernized and put together. And of course, I think we expect much more than that from a designe rlike Frida or at least a designer fronting a house such as Gucci.

 

[vogue28]

I see the Yves Saint Laurent/Tom Ford references too. But Frida can do no wrong in my opinion. It's a strong collection.
The colours at the beginning are gorgeous, sleek and luxe. The fringing towards the end, rounds the show off nicely.
As usual the accessories and detailing is decorative. I was anticipating the show last week, but I'm more than thrilled with this.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

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[littleB]

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