It’s always the ones you expect absolutely nothing from who comes up with the good stuff!
This is one of the times where their stunt actually works so well because attached to a narrative, a design and technical challenge!
That idea of a classical beautifully made Couture archetype (Le manteau, le tailleur, le tailleur pantalon, la robe de cocktail et la robe du soir) that is getting destroyed to look even more beautiful while destroyed is fabulous.
Of course, that idea is nothing new. Jeremy Scott even did it recently at Moschino if I remember well. Here, I also see a glimpse of the work-in-progress Couture collection from Galliano at Dior from 2005 but in a reverse way a little bit.
There’s something very Westwood in the Arte-Povera kind of intention.
If I have one critic, it would be about the last part. I think the gown is quite uninspired and they can never compete with their own spring 2010 collection.