Schiaparelli Haute Couture F/W 2020.21 Paris

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[Marc10]

 

[Nymphaea]

Looks as dated as JPG.
Are they going to execute the drawings? I think better not.

 

[MagFan]

will be even better if he stops wasting paper on this as well

why Olivier is at Azzaro and not here?

 

[Deleted member 119799]

these drawings are awful, everything looks old

 

[jeanclaude]

80s sketches...at least he could have stayed at home to draw them.

 

[YohjiAddict]

I also thought this looked very Jean Paul Gaultier....too much of everything and even the way in which he sketched these feels so passé. I don't hate them as drawings but you can tell he has a pinterest board called "80s Fashion Illustration" and the translation is so literal they serve only to remind you of Montana, Saint Laurent and Lacroix but not to envision garments for today.

Sketches serve to communicate the designers' vision. Someone mentioned Theyskens and there are plenty of his sketches floating around, all of them, no matter how simple, have that Theyskens soul that you can recognize from a glance...talent makes itself noticed.

 

[Lola701]

A beautiful hand-drawing but no appealing design.
There’s no sense of modernity in this. Maybe Schiaparelli should produce the Lacroix collection to save the business.

 

[abstraccion]

This reminds me of those 90s Barbie collector sketches

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[dior_couture1245]

Well....I’ve always felt his sketches are better than his clothes. There are some nice ideas here and there, and there are even some looks that COULD be glamorous. I’ll echo others that a lot of it does come across as late Gaultier Couture, which isn’t exactly the era of Gaultier’s career that I’d choose to be referencing, frankly...

But he’s not talented enough to see his ideas through to completion. Any pizazz that might exist in the sketches somehow always seems to completely fizzle out, leaving every look in his collections so far as absolute duds. Any possibility for glamour is totally missed.

He’s terrible at executing his vision...from fabric choice, directing the atelier (which is clearly a capable one), show design, model casting, styling...it’s all been a total flop.

 

[blackbow91]

I would agree it feels old. I was leafing through Dior's 1990 book (Ferré) the other day, so some of it is still present in my mind. Some of this could belong to those collections, which ARE quite beautiful and some of my favourites... but sure, it does feel old.

For example that I found on the internet, I'd rather wear this: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/13/1f/30/131f3074b4f3a10fdacfb375bc8b27ce.jpg or this https://media.gettyimages.com/photo...juillet-1990-paris-france-picture-id953510906
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I don't think the plume-like detail would look any more modern.

 

[Avonlea]

Just close this house because all it does is insulting the founder. Whoever owns it right now seems to be stuck with a certain vision of Schiaparelli that just does not work in the current times.

 

[RaisinBoy]

The Schiaparelli woman is apparently dressed to the ca-nines.

 

[lauralynn025]

The sketches are beautiful, and I did love the 80s kind of vibe I was getting...

I’m just not sure that the actual collection will have the same vibe as it does on paper...

 

[TaylorBinque]

This guy is like stuck in the old age. His sketches are already better than his clothes and they way he force himself into the presentation is just annoying,

 

[perfect blue]

I don't think the drawings are objectively bad at all. Just too stylized to resemble 80s fashion illustration and aesthetic. It would be better if he updated to an art style more personal and original.... but that's ultimately his choice.