Thom Browne S/S 2014 New York

[Marc10]

style

 

[Marc10]

style

 

[Marc10]

style

 

[jeanclaude]

It is very creative. But at the same time I find it outdated. Reminds me a lot of McQueen.

 

[GERGIN]

Or what Sarah Burton should be doing at McQueen! I love this collection. Thom Browne serves what NYFW should be on a platter. He is too good for New York!!!

 

[Not Plain Jane]

It's a win for me.
It's fun and different and lovely, too.

(He's a bit like an Englishman in New York... but that's good!)

 

[Nepenthes]

I love everything about this collection. It's interesting, dramatic, creative and slightly crazy. A definite win for Thom Browne!

 

[elle_gb]

I love it very conceptual and striking.

 

[Koibito]

His show is one of a very few shows that gives me the excitement of NYFW. I can't imagine how blank NYFW could be if he moves his show to Paris.

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

Wow, so beautiful. This collection should be in every magazine.

 

[Phuel]

If I saw just the show with no one's name attached (and didn't see the trademark Thom Browne stripes in the lining of the bags), I would have instantly though this was ol' Viv back to her ol' madness. The tattered fringes of the hems and the open purses are so dementedly naughty and fun-- but still has that properness to it. It's all very classic Viv, and now classic Thom.

And this is precisely why I really like this collection and adore Thom: It's a mess of a madness-- but it's a well-constructed and edited mess of madness. None of this will end up in the stores the way it's presented here, but it's amazing that Thom takes full advantage of a show and makes it all his demented own. And then it's back to business for the shops with his preppy style.

 

[Scott]

i have to say,for all the styling and show trickery i've seen from him which i felt always detracted from the actual work,this is the first time i've really seen from him some real technique and an exploration of a different direction. unfortunately for as much as that has evolved imo it's too bad it's all already been done before.

 

[Crying Diamonds]

Or what Sarah Burton should be doing at McQueen! I love this collection. Thom Browne serves what NYFW should be on a platter. He is too good for New York!!!

Seeing this collection, it might be a scandalous thing to say, but I think Thom Browne would be perfect at McQueen - he's got the quality and construction skills, that sinister sort of taste and beautiful, original ideas.
Like McQueen, he references history, but he doesn't do it literally, like Burton.
Burton is a costume maker, and not a very good one.
If the McQueen brand has enough money to send out five tonnes of silk tulle on each girl every season, they can afford Thom Browne's ideas which resemble McQueen's on an infinitely better scale than Sarah Burton's.
Even if one can't imagine wearing these designs every day, one can actually imagine wearing them, whereas with Burton's one cannot.

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Browne's Tim Burton-Pageant-Drag shows are getting really tired.

 

[CATO]

love every single piece - what a firework of creativity
a love-marriage between vivienne westwood and mcqueen

 

[dior_couture1245]

While some of this is too much for me, there are some very interesting ideas here.

And even though it's a styling gimmick - I ADORE the bags being worn gaping open! It's fabulous!

 

[silk skin paws]

I love the opening look. The image is now etched into my mind. I feel like towards the end this collection became too crazed looking, mostly due to the styling.

 

[carolyna]

very original collection :-D

 

[Phuel]

i have to say,for all the styling and show trickery i've seen from him which i felt always detracted from the actual work,this is the first time i've really seen from him some real technique and an exploration of a different direction. unfortunately for as much as that has evolved imo it's too bad it's all already been done before.

But everything's been done under the fashion sun though, Scott.

Thom was never Miuccia, Helmut or Rei in the technical innovation department. His was about painstaking bespoke tailoring and classic all-American dressmaking-- paired with a kooky, hyper-stylized Pee-Wee Herman aesthetic, that connected with those of us who enjoy classical modern dressing with a side of geek. The fact that his shows have evolved into, as Mutterlein puts it-- a "Tim Burton-Pageant-Drag show" (with the full cast from Betlejuice to boot), is sort of beside the point of his branding. Thom Browne's branding and his shows don't quite match up conceptually, but strangely, it all seems to works when you finally see it, for me anyways. Or maybe it's just because I'm so tired of scenester designers and their brand of forced hipness, and really missing the type of fashion events like those put on by Gaultier, Montana, Galliano, McQueen and ol' Viv in the past where they transported you to another time, place and even dimension.

I wish more designer would go all the way Thom does when it comes to their shows. But it's not the 80s, 90s, or even 2000s anymore and there are different priorities. It's all become devastatingly bland and boring to see models parade in almost all shows just wearing the clothes the way it's traditionally meant to be worn and all looking so homogenous. It puts me to sleep. Thom's able to give me that needed jolt-- even if that jolt is secondhand Vivian Westwood, down to the footwear. This time, it's good enough for me.

 

[ScarlettLover]

Glad someone brings a bit of drama to NYFW. Both his men's & women's are always a delightful spectacle. I love the Tim Burton-esque madness to them.