Richard Quinn S/S 2026 London

[tricotineacetat]

No need to repeat what all of you have rightfully pointed out already - It‘s certainly stupendous to imagine an independent designer being able to deliver this degree of quality. The clothes look perfectly cut, constructed and fitted on the models.

Yes, it‘s pretty and who doesn‘t like a good vintage couture moment for a change - I still find it a missed opportunity how he didn‘t take that as a starting point for an aesthetic exploration of style of his own. People like Olivier Theyskens would also reference the golden age of couture in his collections but add just as much of their own, therewith creating a style of their own - This is nice but giving me not much else.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

Firstly, the lack of trousers or even a pant of any kind is actually annoying me. Secondly, this is all so soulless and empty. There's no real substance to it but it's trying to be something of note. All I see is Alexis Mabille. That kind of bland pretty fodder for those don't really want to express themselves with clothes and appear as a simple but pretty wall flower.

 

[Lola701]

Well made, slightly tacky and terribly old fashion. I’m tired of early 90s Overdone Chanel references. It’s not appealing, exciting or provoking to me.
All I see in Mr Quinn’s work is a great deal of confusion despite a real knowledge in clothes-making.

Maybe someone could hire him as the head of Couture but I’m not thrilled.

 

[tourbillions]

houstan bridal week is not on yet hunny. Its sooo heavy for s/s and its not the slay he is envisioning it to be. its giving well-made christian siriano.

 

[hamburgers]

Why not just buy the original references at auction if you want this look?

Demna really sucked the soul out of all those consultants who worked with him on the early Balenciaga collections. Richard Quinn, Marine Serre, Martine Rose…none of them have been able to top the work they did there at their own lines.

 

[Phuel]

Well made, slightly tacky and terribly old fashion. I’m tired of early 90s Overdone Chanel references. It’s not appealing, exciting or provoking to me.
All I see in Mr Quinn’s work is a great deal of confusion despite a real knowledge in clothes-making.

Maybe someone could hire him as the head of Couture but I’m not thrilled.

Head of Couture for a Jessica McClintock revival???

Even the worst of Virginie wasn’t this blatantly ripped off wholesale from some dowdy 1987 mother-of-the-bride convention fodder. Supposedly solid craftsmanship aside, this all looks so sadly dusty, suffocatingly matronly, all dryly joyless, and very seriously, not just slightly tacky replicas of a very specific time. People crap on Demna as a knee-jerk reaction, but his Haute Couture took the time in merging old-world craftsmanship, hard-earned skilled construction from a past era with a very personal modern sensibility for the time. Kim K wearing it doesn’t mean it’s unworthy. This all looks, feels and gives soulless, manufactured by advanced AI. And nothing looks flattering on the women. They all look like it's such a chore to don these stiff, heavy 80s costumes.

Unless I’m misremembering that he is known for his floral gimp gowns, this seems such a 360. Good for him if there’s still a clientele trapped in a 1987 timewarp keeping his brand alive and willingly paying for and wearing these impeccably made oven mitts, because I refuse to believe that someone can be so devastatingly bland of a creative blackhole to conjure this without straightup just copying wholesale.

 

[Lola701]

Head of Couture for a Jessica McClintock revival???

Even the worst of Virginie wasn’t this blatantly ripped off wholesale from some dowdy 1987 mother-of-the-bride convention fodder. Supposedly solid craftsmanship aside, this all looks so sadly dusty, suffocatingly matronly, all dryly joyless, and very seriously, not just slightly tacky replicas of a very specific time. People crap on Demna as a knee-jerk reaction, but his Haute Couture took the time in merging old-world craftsmanship, hard-earned skilled construction from a past era with a very personal modern sensibility for the time. Kim K wearing it doesn’t mean it’s unworthy. This all looks, feels and gives soulless, manufactured by advanced AI. And nothing looks flattering on the women. They all look like it's such a chore to don these stiff, heavy 80s costumes.

Unless I’m misremembering that he is known for his floral gimp gowns, this seems such a 360. Good for him if there’s still a clientele trapped in a 1987 timewarp keeping his brand alive and willingly paying for and wearing these impeccably made oven mitts, because I refuse to believe that someone can be so devastatingly bland of a creative blackhole to conjure this without straightup just copying wholesale.

He could do what Peter Copping was doing for Demna.
There’s enough eye for execution and the fabrics are perfect. I don’t think we need his vision though.

Virginie was terrible on her own but she directed the Atelier for Karl perfectly.

 

[QuantumCouture]

Quinn is a gifted technician who borrows liberally from the masters rather than creating his own language. Apart from the glaringly obvious Chanel references, I also see a lot of techniques and ideas developed by Charles James in the 1940s and early 1950s.

 

[jeanclaude]

Unless I’m misremembering that he is known for his floral gimp gowns, this seems such a 360. Good for him if there’s still a clientele trapped in a 1987 timewarp keeping his brand alive and willingly paying for and wearing these impeccably made oven mitts, because I refuse to believe that someone can be so devastatingly bland of a creative blackhole to conjure this without straightup just copying wholesale.

180º...360º keeps you in the same place (although in his case, he is still using those crappy floral prints).