I'm going to be a total killjoy right now and say that, in seeing the pictures, I really only like the gowns (though I like them a lot, they're incredibly beautiful). The rest of the collection isn't doing much for me, mainly because it's been covered by John before. I'm tired of the whole folksy Eastern European thing that's been in fashion for like 7 years now on and off. It's tired, and just like last season when Frida Giannini picked up on it, it has nothing to do with anything else we've been seeing. I can see why maybe you could twist that and use it as a positive, but I really don't think it is. It says to me that a designer is out of touch with what's going on around them. And out of all of the territory he's covered before, why this again, and why so literal?
Then seeing that little video clip (LOVE the music, that song is probably the best cover song ever) those flashing lights and the screeching violin build up such momentum, that seeing those folksy Russian dolls and Greek soldiers come out is kind of anticlimactic. After a buildup like that I would expect something really powerful.
At the very least it's worlds better than last season.