Saint Laurent Resort 2014

[tricotineacetat]

i find it particularly uninspired.. dare i say gucci-esque (and no that's not a compliment in my world). it really looks like hedi is trying to please his haters by bringing the street edge & youthfulness down a notch, and the dropped cassandra YSL logo which caused such a stir can be seen again.. i know for fact hedi caught some heat from management over the last runway show so maybe he's caving in a little... will see what the men's show on sunday reserves..

And I am very thankful he brought this back to a much more sleek and adult-sexy place than with his last, rather unfortunate show. It has become a bit distracting over the months to see the runway as a very young, streetwise affair with busy layered styling, compared to the lookbook shoots on which the collection addresses a much more cleaned up, 'jolie Parisienne' kind of image.

As I've probably said a thousand times, it's not that Hedi's aesthetics always had to rely on the Grunge-y street fashion aspect of his later tenure at Dior. In terms of the cut and the silhouettes proposed, he probably was at the height of his creativity in the early 2000's, way before the collections took this much more vintage-y spin and Dior became such a predictably 'merchandised' fashion house (of which Christophe Decarnin eventually borrowed himself quite a bit to further evolve the Balmain formula). This doesn't quite live up to the bar set in his early days, but is aiming towards a direction that is more true to what works for Saint Laurent.

 

[Izreal]

wow can't believe my comment was edited... all i was saying was... mmm forget it.
tricotine you bring in some good perspective as always.. i just think it's not always just about the cut and the silhouette that makes a hedi collection strong, that's a given at this point... i think that's why his collections are now synonymous with a certain attitude brought in by certain street,culture & era influences all brought together in epic runway shows... obviously this can't all translate in this type of photo shoot presentation and the actual SS14 concepts might not all be finalized yet, this may all even be a ploy to calm tensions and not alienate previous outraged YSL customers for all we know... i do understand the point of the permanent collection and establishing the basics i just find this very sterile, and as you've pointed yourself borderline amateurish when it comes to dresses. maybe hedi is showing his limits when it comes to womenswear but for once i'd have to concede this has a stigma of zara advertisement, cuts & fabric not giving this enough flair & identity imo.. the return of YSL logo almost being a sign of defeat heh...

 

[get fashion]

This is pure crap, the only good thing here is Sasha. This is Balmain part II, mediocre clothes with overload prices and Vogue Paris fans and celebrities wearing like this is couture.