Harris Reed - Designer, Creative Director of Nina Ricci

[blueorchid]

They'll be discontinued before we know it.

 

[rowjellies]

I thought he left from this brand. I guess I am mixing him up with someone else.

Charles de Vilmorin and Rochas

Equally ghastly designs and similarly sleepy couture house

 

[rowjellies]

This Vénus bottle design looks outdated as hell. Are we designing for thrift stores?

 

[LadyJunon]

Looking at the recent collection on their online store, the selection has improved, but everything looks like a bootleg 80s couture collection. The pieces are appealing, but they don't really have an identity of their own.

On top of that, there's so many synthetic blends. The worst is this €950 jacket whose composition reads like this: 32% polyamide, 28% virgin wool, 23% polyester, 17% acrylic. At this point, the virgin wool has become a wh*re.

 

[blueorchid]

That jacket looks soooo itchy.

 

[thismortalcoil]

So…I guess Puig is just pretending that l’Exstase and it’s flop never happened

 

[rowjellies]

Puig out of anyone should be knocking perfume out of the park.

Make something of the caliber of Dries Van Noten perfume, Penhaligon’s, or even the new Charlotte Tilbury perfumes…

 

[Kennnnn]

Looking at the recent collection on their online store, the selection has improved, but everything looks like a bootleg 80s couture collection. The pieces are appealing, but they don't really have an identity of their own.

On top of that, there's so many synthetic blends. The worst is this €950 jacket whose composition reads like this: 32% polyamide, 28% virgin wool, 23% polyester, 17% acrylic. At this point, the virgin wool has become a wh*re.

This jacket looks like leftover Balmain from 10 years ago.

 

[LadyJunon]

Puig out of anyone should be knocking perfume out of the park.

Make something of the caliber of Dries Van Noten perfume, Penhaligon’s, or even the new Charlotte Tilbury perfumes…

Again, Nina Ricci has been a very neglected brand and is pretty much dependant on the production and sales of endless Nina and its 13 flankers, most of which are now discontinued. I think that it's due to the fact that they never managed to create a proper halo with the fashion.

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

 

[blueorchid]

I agree with the message, buuut can't they use a font that's readable.

 

[Irere]

This Vénus bottle design looks outdated as hell. Are we designing for thrift stores?

The flacon is widely being compared to Elizabeth Taylor's Black Pearls — a mainstay at off-price retailers like TJ Maxx, Marshall's, Burlington, and Ross. Not a smart choice, I'd say.

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[lookatme]

His looks cheaper.

 

[youthinasia]

I love this counter-account to STYLENOTCOM. It's clearly saying what everyone is thinking. Followed.

 

[blueorchid]

a mainstay at off-price retailers like TJ Maxx, Marshall's, Burlington, and Ross. Not a smart choice, I'd say.

Well, they're aware of the competition, I guess. Soon this "perfume" will be on the discount racks, too. I can't wait to hear the reviews from fragrance nuts, people think we're bad on tFS? They let fragrances really have it.

Also, the fan shape also gives me a bit of a Karl vibe


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[imjustken]

I don't understand why they don't advertise L'Air du Temps a lot more. Isn't it their best-seller ? All the other brands release ads of their best-selling perfume regularly.

 

[MulletProof]

^ leave L’Air Du Temps out of this! it doesn’t need advertising, certainly not under the direction of this hack! 😣

 

[imjustken]

If your most beloved product can be ruined by the ad campaign of an artistic director, then there's a problem with your house, not your artistic director. No artistic director should have that much power. That's why a house like Hermès has a creative director that brings some continuity between the different visions of ever changing artistic directors.

I don't see Harris as a hack at all. I understand his vision. I think he wants to dress like a woman and be his happy little queer self but he's struggling to make a clear statement about it with his fashion. For starters, he designs for gender-conforming women. It defeats the whole purpose of gender fluidity. He should design for gender-fluid men like Palomo Spain does.

It'd make more sense if he designed for gender-fluid women. The beautiful black and white suit he made that Claudia Schiffer and Tilda Swinton wore are a great step forward in terms of his fashion stance but it's nothing new. Yves Saint Laurent already did it. We actually still need someone who will put a men in dresses and heels and make them walk the catwalk. That's gender fluidity.

 

[imjustken]

I will never understand why there hasn't already been even just one big time fashion designer working at a major brand dressing men like women. Not one has the guts to do it.

 

[KoV]

I will never understand why there hasn't already been even just one big time fashion designer working at a major brand dressing men like women. Not one has the guts to do it.

If I want to dress like a woman, Why wouldn’t I just buy womenswear? That’s even part of the appeal.

I know there’s a deeper point there, but I’m just saying. I think most men that *want* to “dress like a woman” aren’t waiting for permission from a corporation to say it’s ok. And certainly many designers have shown feminine takes on menswear or sent male models down a runway in womenswear.