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Is Anyone Else Disappointed?

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Is anyone else disappointed with the new collections? From Hedi Slimane's horrendous new collection to countless other collections which leave one feeling that the designer could have done much better. As I look through Firstview, Stle.com, Vogue, I'm completely disappointed time and time again. Don't get me wrong - there were several things I liked very much, but I felt that most were "Hit-and-Miss" in general.

Is it just me?
 
Mainly menswear, I rarely look at the women's collections.
 
I personally found many things to want to purchase, but if you are speaking from a standpoint of wanting revolutionary new fashion to get excited about, I think that there was a general feeling of transition with the shows. With the move towards 'volume' but the uncertainty of how to realize it, much less sell it to the public, as well as finding a firm new direction that everyone can embrace, it can lead one to feel less than enthralled with the designer offerings. Even in menswear, Hedi's formula is just that, a formula for him. One could feel his need to go against the rules that he himself set a few years back, hence the somewhat controversial collection he showed for Dior Homme.

Also, Tom Ford's exit, no matter how much one may loathe his personal style, has left a void in fashion that none have yet filled, and the level of excitement he brought is gone with him. Gone with Ford is an era of brash sexiness, and we have yet to clearly see what is next on the horizon for fashion. I remember that in most of the 90s, there was so much retro-rehashing that it wasn't until the end of the decade, around 1998, that we suddenly had a new look that was modern and not based on any retro stylings. Perhaps we're going through another such transitional phase again now.

Next season, don't expect too much that's revolutionary from American designers either, since there's a very short time between shows as New York has opted to show a week earlier than its European counterparts. Just last night I already heard grumblings from designers bemoaning the shorter design time that they have to decompress from this recently past season and conceptualize the next. Although hopefully, someone will have a Eureka! moment and surprise us.
 
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I suppose I'll agree to this.

I can't say it was a dissapointment, I expected it however.

There were very few pieces I personally wanted to purchase.

The big commercial houses are dead to me.

When it gets right down to it, Hedi's collection was very similar to his older ones.
The over the top styling was probably meant to draw attention away from that partially.
 
I'm with you Arturo. I'm not super excited about anything right now, really.
 
^^ Add me to the list. There are some individual pieces that I want to purchase, but on a whole... yawnnn. It's just lacking that "Wowww..." factor
 
i actually really like where menswear is right now...
i'm really enjoying it...

so many more options than there used to be...which i think is great...
 
I have to say that I, too, really like the menswear collections right now. Menswear usually looks all the same to me, but there's a bit of variety and color out that I find very exciting.

I have been miserable the past 2-3 seasons. I have been seriously disappointed. I feel as if all the designers are following each other. It's like they are finding the new trends and elaborating on them instead of coming up with something a bit new. Something different or something that hasn't been seen in a while. Everything seems a bit stagnant. I can't wait for the flow to come back or is it just the designers?
 
Arturo21 said:
Mainly menswear, I rarely look at the women's collections.

i did not really follow the mens collections, so i cant really add something.....
but a friend of mine mentioned that he liked it a lot, in general.
 
I definetly felt that SS 05 was way more exciting, but I also must say that this season doesn't really bore me though. I think that some collections were less spectacular and striking than last season, but I still think they are not bad at all (McQueen, Dior) I think that it's not entire collections that were bad, but that several pieces from collections were (very) bad....like the fur/monogram-scarf at Vuitton, the knitted poncho thingy at Dior and also the velvet coats at Gucci I think....But the overall collections weren't bad....
 
Mr-Dale said:
I definetly felt that SS 05 was way more exciting, but I also must say that this season doesn't really bore me though. I think that some collections were less spectacular and striking than last season, but I still think they are not bad at all (McQueen, Dior) I think that it's not entire collections that were bad, but that several pieces from collections were (very) bad....like the fur/monogram-scarf at Vuitton, the knitted poncho thingy at Dior and also the velvet coats at Gucci I think....But the overall collections weren't bad....

I actually feel quite the opposite. I feel collections were mediocre, I don't think many were bad except for some pieces in the collections that were spectacular.
 
softgrey said:
i actually really like where menswear is right now...
i'm really enjoying it...

so many more options than there used to be...which i think is great...

I'm with Softie. I've never bought so much in one season as I did this past season, and I already saw a few exciting things in the stores for this coming season. I think that the menswear collections were pretty strong for F/W 05-06 (but I like F/W much better in general, there is just so much more you can do).

One thing to note is that a lot of my faves are off or flying low on the radar. Ann Demeulemeester and Rick Owens mix her menswear with the womenswear, Carol Christian Poell does not do a runway show, neither does Carpe Diem, nor Les Hommes. Although Raf Simons gets a lot of attention, he is still a VERY niche market. Cloak is only starting to surface. Etc, etc, etc...

I wasn't excited about this coming season one bit... until I went to some of my favorite stores :woot: .

I am bemoaning the departure of Helmut Lang though.
 
Arturo21 said:
I actually feel quite the opposite. I feel collections were mediocre, I don't think many were bad except for some pieces in the collections that were spectacular.

I agree, they were mediocre...that was the word I was searching for actually :p
 
I havn't checked out the menswear collections as of yet, but i found the majority of the ready to wear collections very uninspiring, didn't excite me at all, I feel alot of the colour palates were chosen incorrectly...either that or the designer would use alot of black. :neutral:

What are peoples thoughts on the colours used?
 
softgrey said:
i actually really like where menswear is right now...
i'm really enjoying it...

so many more options than there used to be...which i think is great...
I agree with you on menswear, for the past few years designers have really started to break the tight constraints of "acceptable" menswear fashion. I mean, the fabrics, the details, the silhouettes.....it's all so much more experimental then it used to be.

As for womenswear I actually am kind of bored. I kinda feel like it's stuck in a rut, it's all the ladylike crap/eccelctic details that's been going on for the last few seasons. It just doesn't excite me. I'd personally love to be a designer right now because fashion needs something fresh, or at least something that hasn't been done in a while and I've got so many ideas......here's to hoping fashion moves a bit more quickly then it has been.
 
I have to say Im like Faust in that respect..
Many of the brands I am a fan of do not do runways because they are so small.
 
:huh:I'm not talking about those labels, Raijin....

I'm speaking of the larger labels that do have runway shows that I have seen. I'm speaking of designers in general, not absolutely each and every one. I've seen photos of the collections of the smaller labels I like, and I still feel the same magic in them....

Spike413 - I absolutely agree with you on that, and I love it when designers deviate from the common and move towards the extraordinary and experiment with new styles, I just feel that this season's styles have been boring, I don't feel the "magic" in them. ;)
 

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