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All categories should be declared deserted, but especially menswear!
All categories should be declared deserted, but especially menswear!
i so adore Ralph Rucci, he deserves more support by the american industry, hes a real new master.Originally posted by ignitioned32@Mar 31st, 2004 - 3:08 pm
Just like New York Fashion Week last season, this I find this rather tired. A lousy list indeed.
Though Ralph Rucci will and should win that award. He is the only American designer who showed Haute Couture in Paris in over thirty years, since Mainbocher. Plus I think he's clothes are American fashion at its pinnacle.
But I think why so many people disagree with P.Diddy being nominated is because a-he has absolutly no new or interesting ideas or talent, b-his clothes are pretty much restricted to those who want to wear hip-hop influenced clothing. Let's face it , no matter what size you buy his clothes in, they are cut huge because, P. Diddy is producing clothes for hip-hop stars. And c-as for having character, yeah, mabye his RUNWAY looks have character, but how much charachter does a $40 plain white t-shirt with SeanJohn embroidered on the chest have? While not every persong who buys Dior Homme is a rocker, or every person who buys Gucci is a sex simbol, the pieces are made with amazing quality, taste, and imagination. Can't really say that for Diddy and his sweatshop sweatsuits can you?
an education is irrelevant in fashion...most of the biggest names in fashion have dropped out of school...or have majored in something other than fashion...school is good because it teaches you discipline and you may make important contacts while you're there, but it is not a pre-requisite to being a successful designer...those are the facts...Originally posted by pennyfei@Apr 4th, 2004 - 6:33 pm
plus that Mr Combs does not have real education in fashion, which is pretty important in the industry.
What do u mean by his secondary line? The things you see on his runway aren't sold at all, they're just runway pieces. I don't think he has a secondary line, he just doesn't have any coherence between what is presented on the runway and what is actually produced.Originally posted by datura001@Apr 5th, 2004 - 7:01 pm
A lot of the comments thus far seem to be based on his secondary line and are thus invalid as most designers secondary lines focus on overpriced tee shirts and jeans, which may point at an even bigger problem. Is there anything new for a designer to do, to create, especially since consumers are comforted by old classics, reissues, and vintage stylings? Is something succesful only if it sells? These are questions I've been thinking a lot about since I went to orientation at Parsons over the weekend. The fashion department reiterated time and again that they are only interested in 'real life clothes', even though the catagory, to me, seems overcrowded and dried up. If 'real life clothes' are the focus of the NY scene and thus the CFDA, perhaps there will never be room for designers who are innovative above and beyond the call, who do more than just basic secondary lines and signature lines that just update, encrust, and double face, and steal what has already been presented. Perhaps these nominations are about honoring those who play the game well and who don't grumble out loud about it.