LOL Those bags of salt are only for the well-paid ambassadors to wear on the red carpet. The lowly paying suckers will have to settle for the outlet basic merch of preppie-style monogrammed boarding school sweaters, stonewashed jeans and moccasins. Are the Junya Watanabe cargo shorts available at retail? Or are they only for the likes of Ye and his son? I despise the marketing and branding of JW’s Dior. Admittedly, my own distain for JW has his Dior especially more cynical than any other brand’s, But truth is he’s not the worst: His is a mockery of fashion. But like Jeff Koons, it’s a very well-produced mockery with a POV (…that is, if a woman likes to have a huge unsightly hole in a heavy shapeless form with all the construction and design finesse of a PVC shower curtain as a POV. Compare that to Tom Ford’s light as air jersey dress with the strategically placed opening right on a women’s pelvis bone to accentuate the curve of her hip. JW’s the sledgehammer of design-- but that's the mood of fashion right now). Still, someone like Michael Rider deserves our wraith more than JW: His Celine is just so pointless, an utter department-store curation of picked over discounted rejects at the local outlet mall. The logo’d merch will likely sell, but who’s going to drop $9,000USD on one of his generic coats?
Anyway, Hedi’s brand of timelessness is still heads above what’s become of Ralph Lauren’s version of timelessness, frankly. Ralph hasn’t been remotely lifestyle-inspiring for well over a decade now. And it hasn’t been visually aspirations since the Bruce Weber days. Of course if any man is just looking for a proper bird’s eye suit to wear to a traditional wedding, and a woman is looking for dinner suit for any occasion, then Ralph will always be that accessible label. But that WASP of Mayflower Americana heritage that made the brand such a statement despite selling generic Americanwear has long been co-opted to increase profit margins-- so now the WASPy image has been co-opted by every POC LMFAO I still like Ralph Lauren, but Thom Browne cuts a meaner and superior Prince of Wales suit. And not even at his best, could Ralph best Hedi. Hedi's detractors will dismiss him as a weak womenswear designer, and perhaps so. But for the discerning women that doesn’t particularly care for excess volume/flowing froufrou/overly-complicated drapes and even sillier cuts and proportions, then even Hedi’s menswear seems such a supreme alternative to all the desperate nonsense. Sometimes being too hardcore fashion-sophisticated really turns one into a silly cartoon— like Daniel Roseberry’s women, and Raf’s Prada women, and I don’t like to say it since he’s really so much superior to Raf and Daniel— Ghesquiere’s Vuitton women. (...I suspect it's that MAS person that's the Wormtongue to Ghesquiere's Theoden. Get rid of her.)
