Louise Trotter - Designer, Creative Director of Bottega Veneta

[Monsieur Cristobal]

On her behalf: leather is a difficult material for gowns and red carpet in general (remember Chalamet's yellow suit).
It has a natural structure, very rebellious to the precise shape that you intend to give.

(Aside note: Is that one of the reasons why Hermès doesn't do red carpet?)

So, if for Givenchy might have felt natural to present the first looks at a festival, maybe for Bottega was a bad decision. They don't have Haute Couture codes and their strengths cannot really shine on a red carpet.

 

[tourbillions]

the characterristics of leather should not be a problem for a house whose whole legacy is supposed to be on leather work... That is just embarassing and shows that she did not even try to do any treatment or manipulation to make the leather soft for the dressess...

 

[Lola701]

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I actually love it. I would probably wear it with a white tank top underneath.
It’s more like a Chasuble.
Phoebe used to do chasuble inspired tops also but fully closed so they defined the silhouette more.
Maybe what I wish was that the belt was long enough to attach it also to the front.

I see it more as an accessory.

The thing with leather is that it also looks even better with time when it has lived and the fabrics becomes even softer.

I expect her Bottega to look like her Joseph. I just hope she will be able to infuse the colors and the fun of her Lacoste overtime. But I wouldn’t mind seeing that chasuble on the show, even more with those pants!

 

[Thefrenchy]

I personally find it to be an incredibly wrong decision to present this as a preview of her vision for the brand. On top of being terribly weak design-wise and lacking any kind of point of view, Bottega has never been a reference for red-carpet dressing anyway. Some strong runway pieces worked well on celebs, but you never associate BV with red carpet moments so why preview it there? It feels very much like another weird Pinault move (Kering sponsors the Cannes Film Festival)...

BV has proven to have incredible craftsmen and women, she has all the possibilities offered to her in terms of technicality to wow everyone. Blazy (and even Daniel at times) has proven it on multiple occasions. This is just sh*tt* design, I'm sorry to say.

If Kering and BV's CEO's plan is to offer a bootleg Phoebe/The Row for mains and some kind of Loro Piana for pre-collections, they better revise their plan and act FAST because this is going to go south very very fast. It's not like they have a price positioning that'd justify going to them instead of who they're referencing anyway. They better hope that those Andiamo bags will keep selling well for a couple of years.

 

[tourbillions]

at this point i think bottega is the least of their problems. I dont even want to see how the new gucci and balenciaga will look like.

 

[Thefrenchy]

^ Well, maintaining one of the only healthy brands in their portfolio should be a priority...

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

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Every time I praise and give credit to Blazy, I have to first and foremost state how much I loathe his appointment at Chanel. Chanel belongs to Hedi ONLY.

That being said, Blazy's BV Look 1 the leather tank and leather jeans were somewhat newish. Although he didn't develop the technique himself, it was the BV atelier. Daniel's BV did some interesting chunky leather weaving. Regarding JW's Loewe, I believe it's Spring 2016 the flower-pressing leather. Again, this wasn't developed by him but by the Loewe atelier. This leather bib from Louise is insanely bad compared to these three

 

[Xone]

BV design director is saying arrivederci

 

[Creative]

I completely agree with you all… it’s so wannabe and pretentious to debut in the red carpet in 2025. If you do it with one celeb you really like, it’s ok, and with a look that might end up being iconic, but to do it with a lot of people and all of the looks being so… poor and ugly?

I mean, it was ok for Galliano and Lady Di 30 years ago, now? After Givenchy took this direction also and worked so poorly with Sarah…

BV shouldn’t be about red carpets tbh. They should be a kind of cheaper Hermès.

This woman is giving me Veronica Leoni from
CK vibes. Quite pretentious in her self presentation, quite try hard intellectual/arty, quite démodé, following an aesthetic that should’ve been already forgotten, a very poor version of Phoebe Philo 300 hundred years later… I’m sure they think very highly about themselves and believe what they are doing is relevant and interesting, but it seems so passé, overdone, burnt, lacking a a personal vision and a personal world…

 

[susseinmcswanny]

They attended an event in the US where they both wore Matthieu’s BV.

I like that font on the tag.
Rather classic and chic. It’s good.
But then again, Redcarpet is never really a clear indication of nothing.

I guess Louise will probably show her resort soon to the buyers.

I so agree. It may be kind of a gimmick ? but it looks so old school that it's fresh. Then again... it's just the tag lol. Not the clothes

 

[Xone]

This woman is giving me Veronica Leoni from
CK vibes. Quite pretentious in her self presentation, quite try hard intellectual/arty, quite démodé, following an aesthetic that should’ve been already forgotten, a very poor version of Phoebe Philo 300 hundred years later… I’m sure they think very highly about themselves and believe what they are doing is relevant and interesting, but it seems so passé, overdone, burnt, lacking a a personal vision and a personal world…

stragenly a lot of them (women and men) uses these oversized black frame glasses, i dont know why...i met some people in life and the most pretentious ones have that specific charateristic...im always very suspicious of people wearing those kind of glasses...it is weird i know but almost all the time it turned out to be like this.

I hope someone from Kering are reading this thread and do something about it....still i have little or no faith in her...

 

[PDFSD]

BV design director is saying arrivederci

i assume he is going to Blazy at Chanel under Blazy´s company ? because normally you can't poach people for a year after you left as creative director unless there was an different contract type or whatever

maybe he is going somewhere else he will post for sure about it :-)

 

[PDFSD]

at this point i think bottega is the least of their problems. I dont even want to see how the new gucci and balenciaga will look like.

Gucci - like Demna Balenciaga but guccyfied
Balenciaga - like PPP valentino without V logos

 

[hamburgers]

Can this company get over themselves and get official social media pages already. Instagram hasn’t even been the main social media network in half a decade.

Having to go to the designer’s personal account to see haphazardly uploaded brand content does not make the brand feel exclusive it makes it seem like they’re too cheap to hire a proper social media team.

 

[FashionPower]

i assume he is going to Blazy at Chanel under Blazy´s company ? because normally you can't poach people for a year after you left as creative director unless there was an different contract type or whatever

maybe he is going somewhere else he will post for sure about it :-)

He already changed his bio to "Chanel design director"...
So tacky and disperectful towards the Bottega team, like can't you Just wait for the first collection to drop? Giving basic mean gay vibes.

 

[TaylorBinque]

It's so cringey. Get social media accounts. Run it accordinly. Look at Loewe. This is pure pretentiousness.

 

[FashionPower]

Who ever said this Trotter girl is another Leoni wannabe intellectual in disguise is perfectly spot on. All I see is another woman willing to do yet another iteration of Phoebe's aesthetic with the intrecciato craftmanship bullsh*t excuse to cover the lack of vision or brand evolution.
We don't need another The Row, CK, Celine by Phoebe or Khaite with intrecciato details and bags...it's giving 2017.

 

[Nimsay]

I mean these clothes look great with that yuppie bourgeois look that’s in right now. That sort of bland room w a Noguchi table and dark colored door handle hardware with like basket weave texture curtains in the color “Earthen” … This goes with that vibe perfectly. Taking yourself deadly serious with mass market avant garde taste….

 

[jeanclaude]

Can this company get over themselves and get official social media pages already. Instagram hasn’t even been the main social media network in half a decade.

Having to go to the designer’s personal account to see haphazardly uploaded brand content does not make the brand feel exclusive it makes it seem like they’re too cheap to hire a proper social media team.

Those pics are in Sabato´s level of cringeness.

 

[yslforever]

Those pics are in Sabato´s level of cringeness.

Hey guys and gals, she has not presented a full collection yet, no need to revert to rude A*cora insults like that so soon.
This world needs more kindness.