Prabal Gurung F/W 12.13 New York

[Ives927]

More or less the same mess from last season. Hideous ruffles mixed with tacky shiny materials. Just stuff you'd expect on the red carpet. Really nothing to get overly excited for.

 

[liberty33r1b]

I'm not particularly fond of those big ruffles on some of the dresses, especially since those pieces also don't work well with the rest of the collection. overall, however, I'd call this is a fantastic collection. he certainly didn't disappoint

 

[xPedro]

It looks like a mix of Givenchy and Alexander McQueen, a major let down after last season's show!

 

[Not Plain Jane]

I don't like the "gold" section and have to agree with all that a lot of the rest recalls Givenchy.

Disappointing as I liked his collection last fall - the very vampy one.

This iridescent bits here are redeeming, somewhat.

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Gurung's admiration for Ricardo Tisci's work is painful to watch and really just embarrassing for New York fashion week.

 

[RedandNavy]

Other than some of you guys I like this much more than the last collection. I see some pretty pieces. I am not a huge of fan of the color palette - too harsh for my taste - but I like some of the monochromatic pieces.

 

[Selfportraitgrl]

Some of this even reminds me of Balenciaga, and that's definitely not something I want to think about when I look at Prabal Gurung...

Still not really sure what I think about this, but I think it's safe to say I'm disappointed. There are some nice pieces, but overall it's pretty underwhelming.

 

[valliaddict]

I really liked this collection, but the transparent gowns really had me shaking my head in embarrassment for him. Can Prabal Gurung & Julien Macdonald please STOP doing this!?!? It is clearly Riccardo's territory, and anyone who attempts this really needs to get their head out of their a$$, because you will never be as good as the original.

 

[TianSoFine]

On top of all the Givenchy, the blue piece on Liu Wen looks like Chanel and the black piece on Joan Smalls looks like Pucci, imo.

I'm kind of on the fence about this collection. It's not amazing but it's not bad either.

 

[StoneSkipper]

Well, if he's trying to do Gurung for Givenchy, it's not going so bad! It isn't great, but it isn't bad, either. I tend to not like Prabal because he always overdoes stuff - too much embellishments, too much chiffon, too much laser cuts, too much fringe... This isn't any different, but somehow I like it more.

 

[Lovegood]

HQs.


Credit to Vogue Italia; vogue.it.

 

[Lovegood]

Credit to Vogue Italia; vogue.it.

 

[Lovegood]

Credit to Vogue Italia; vogue.it.

 

[LolaSvelt]

I see he's still ripping off Tisci. It couldn't be more blatant in the finale gown.

 

[Spike413]

I really liked this collection, but the transparent gowns really had me shaking my head in embarrassment for him. Can Prabal Gurung & Julien Macdonald please STOP doing this!?!? It is clearly Riccardo's territory, and anyone who attempts this really needs to get their head out of their a$$, because you will never be as good as the original.

While I can see the comparison between the sheer gowns at the end and some of what Tisci's been doing for couture lately, to say that it's Riccardo's territory is so beyond insulting and wrong that I can't even wrap my head around it.

You can't honestly think that because two years ago Riccardo Tisci decided that a transparent tulle gown that covers part of the body with glitzy embroidery or ends in a hem covered in ostrich feathers was a novel idea that he somehow invented them, can you? Not when those Givenchy gowns, gorgeous as they were, owe a huge debt to the likes of Bob Mackie, Roberto Cavalli, Donatella Versace, and even Julian Macdonald (who was doing the whole sparkly, mostly naked, drag queen in a Vegas revue thing before Riccardo Tisci was a name anyone knew), just to name a few, and especially not when the only reason those designers stopped doing dresses like that was because they fell out of favor. Now Tisci brought them back and he's some kind of innovator because of that?

Some perspective, please, when asserting that one designer "owns" some kind of territory that was long ago discovered.

As for the collection, I don't like it on first impression. It's very heavy and somewhat clumsy looking. Last fall was incredible and spring ended up being one of the few collections that I remembered months down the line, but I just don't like this. I think it's that a lot of this is so far removed from what he does well.

 

[loladonna]

^According to TFS any time someone does a 40s style dress they are ripping off Prada

 

[giselerlee]

gorgeous！

 

[ALAUU]

I would like to see what his inspiration board looks like. It's probably filled with Riccardo Tisci's past collections for Givenchy. This Prabal Gurung guy is so blatant in his plagiarism. I think the first season you steal someone else's ideas you can pass it off as mere inspiration, but after two seasons in a row it's just pathetic.

 

[Spike413]

^ I think "blatant plagiarism" is a bit of an overstatement considering that none of this, save maybe for the last gown, looks exactly (or even mostly) like something Tisci has done or would do for Givenchy, and without that, it can't really be considered plagiarism, can it?

Are there echoes of Tisci's aesthetic? Yes, but then again their are echoes of what Tisci's been doing in a lot of collections these days, that doesn't mean each and every one of those designers plagiarized Riccardo Tisci.

 

[purplethistle]

I think this is a sensational collection, even if parts of it may be a 'rip-off' because at the very least the execution was great.