Saint Laurent Menswear S/S 2022 Venice

[Frederic01]

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[dior_couture1245]

Oh no no no no no.....

 

[susseinmcswanny]

I am not watching all that I am so tired of the Celine Saint Laurent videos

 

[Phuel]

It’s probably the most complete and confident vision of men’s he’s ever shown for the brand. And it’s also purely concentrated Hedi Slimane: everything from his YSL, to Dior Homme, to his SLP and Celine— down to the cast strutting with their hands in their pant pockets. Any other time it deserves to be dismissed for such plagiarism, but in these everyone-wants-to-be-bland-and-common days, I’ll gladly take the impossibly slick and gorgeous production and the impossibly forever young vampiric supremely skinny twinks casting. It’s a stunning production.

 

[jeanclaude]

Vintage junkie crossdresser look...?

 

[THD96]

All I can think is Hedi must be furious that he can't stop Anthony from milking his aesthetic, and that no matter what he's doing at Celine, people will still buying Saint Laurent.

This collection is whatever, just another parade of Hedi SL. And that is what we gonna get as long as Anthony still here.

 

[Kimihiro]

It looked like an Hedi Slimane greatest hits. Complete with pieces that were seemingly dragged straight out of the last Celine menswear show. It’s been on autopilot since Anthony took reins. Although yes, people will still buy this over Celine because of the name, but for how long?

Someone else should design menswear for them… if only.

 

[YohjiAddict]

Take another little piece of my style, baby!!!

- Monsieur Slimane

 

[entten]

I dont care for Menswear but after reading the comments I had to watch it.

It is kind of crazy how fearlessly he copies style,cast,silhouettes,the overall feeling..everything. I would be so scared that even one unimportant person saying,your collection looks slightly like this and that...but whatever.

However.....I still think he does Hedi so much better than Hedi does Hedi now....So Anthony is somehow the only case I really dont care about the copy thing.....

I have to say alot of looks and styles look really cool. I even like the cast,even though its not my thing. I would definitely turn my head twice if some of the boys would walk across me in that style and attitude on the streets.

 

[vogue28]

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[vogue28]

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[SophiaVB]

Some of the casting is really hot (despite the clothes).

It's a bit too "romantic" for me, meaning it kinda looks like a poorly executed Ann D meets Hedi. Where is the tailoring?? You know the brand's core men's customer is coming to them for suits.

 

[Frederic01]

I don't see Hedi Slimane in this at all. This is a very Alessandro Michele vision of masculinity; Hedi would never do something so diaphanous and romantic. The colour palette is also very far from the Slimane aesthetic, and is indeed very Yves in terms of those jewel tones. And those babouche slippers! Very Yves in Marrakech.

What was interesting about this collection was how Vaccarello took inspiration from the YSL womenswear archives. For example the yellow shirt/cape was supposedly inspired by Saint Laurent's 1971 opera coat (pictured below on Carla Bruni in 2002).


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I personally don't mind this collection, but to be honest it's not Anthony's best. It's very deja-vu with what he's done before and doesn't feel "fresh" in terms of design. He really struggles with the menswear and it shows. It's a shame that the (rock'n'roll) branding established by Slimane is so rigid because given more freedom, I think the menswear could be really interesting and dynamic.

 

[WAVES]

I love a lot some of the pieces and I would actually wear them!

romantic and punk is a great combo, the location for the video is stunning and the cast fits the collection perfectly.

the 17 year old goth in me is smiling.

 

[dior_couture1245]

Seeing the pictures, this collection and lookbook is actually disturbing and creepy.

The “models” are so underage, unhealthy and sick looking. The clothes and shoes and accessories are so dated and ugly. It’s like…ok the answer to the oversized clothing trend is no to shrink everything to be beyond skin tight.

The whole thing is so passé and out of touch and overdone.

Is any designer interested in making clothes for men? Or are we just going to be playing dress up forever with queer, teenage TikTokers forever?

Remember Stefan’s Pilati’s YSL collections for men? They were so freaking chic…from 2005-2007 I still would kill for some of those pieces…

 

[RedSmokeRise]

Not sure what's worse - Vaccarello creating these OTT shows for just to have "content" while rehashing Hedi's 2015 aesthetic.....Or Hedi making logo hoodies for tiktok.

 

[susseinmcswanny]

Seeing the pictures, this collection and lookbook is actually disturbing and creepy.

You know I kind of agree like I know everyone is trying to market to young people bc they are the ones that blow their money like nobody's business, but this growing obsession with barely legal twink stuff is... odd behavior.

 

[Phuel]

Frankly, the clothes are so secondary— even besides the point to this new branding, as far as I’m concerned.

The creepy-factor is probably why I’m drawn to this presentation, especially at this point in fashion, where the majority of castings is so by-the-headcount banality and utterly indistinguishable from one another. This phalanx of boys is very specifically palest, androgynous, most even Candy Darling-esque is rather a gutsy move in these most outlet-mall aesthetic of times. And that they’re so so so skinny that I can already see the twitter pearl-clutching meltdown is another reason to praise how politically-incorrect the imageries are. None of them look underage to me, but if that’s an impression made— all the better actually. Fashion imagery that is provocative again can only be a good thing.

 

[Joromana]

I'm actually seeing Frida for Gucci (esp 08/09) and not in a good way...

I'm sure it'll sell, just not my cup of tea.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

Reminds me of those model shoots on modelmayhem that are gothic themed. When one looks properly there are some good looks but the gothic presentation and styling is very 2014