Your Must-Watch Fashion Show Recommendations...

[NakedAndAfraid]

Controversial opinion maybe but I love this. You could say it's meant to provoke or annoy, but whatever it's doing it's successful at it.

 

[mdmmxl]

Sadly, there is no better quality video of the full show and this video is missing the amazing soundtrack but I still think in this show, you can really see 1) how specific the true JIL SANDER style is, especially compared to the later years of Raf and Patrick at the house. 2) how important the correct design team is to translate a directors vision. Just like when Jil brought in the people from Yohji in the 90s to translate her ideas, here she clearly had people who understood her but also the current climate.

Bonus: GREAT shoes!

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

Controversial opinion maybe but I love this. You could say it's meant to provoke or annoy, but whatever it's doing it's successful at it.

How so, controversial?
We don't all agree that she is the greatest living old master, alongside Giorgio Armani?

I love the moment at 5'55'' where the two UCOs (Unknown Clothing Objects) meet. It is like a Coco & Freja in Neptune.

The last third, with the bleeding tipi, the giant stained menstrual pad, the walking clouds... those are wedding dresses for cultures and people that don't exist yet.

It is uplifting to see an artist who knows no limits to her fantasy.
Wonderful.

 

[Lola701]

Controversial opinion maybe but I love this. You could say it's meant to provoke or annoy, but whatever it's doing it's successful at it.

Yes, I don’t find your opinion controversial at all.
I don’t care for what Rei has to propose anymore and barely look at CDG mainline but her work has a following and her devotee can love it with the valid reasons.

One thing that I would say is that I don’t think after all this year of being on that lane that she decided to create for herself, it’s still provoking. It’s necessary as a creative vision for her to express but I don’t think is provoking anymore because this is a bit what people have come to expect from Rei.

 

[mdmmxl]

Yes, I don’t find your opinion controversial at all.
I don’t care for what Rei has to propose anymore and barely look at CDG mainline but her work has a following and her devotee can love it with the valid reasons.

One thing that I would say is that I don’t think after all this year of being on that lane that she decided to create for herself, it’s still provoking. It’s necessary as a creative vision for her to express but I don’t think is provoking anymore because this is a bit what people have come to expect from Rei.

Very well put Lola, as always.

I'd also consider her work not very connected with her brand anymore, thus not so much "in discourse", as it might have been years ago. It's always good to remember that CDG, though considered an "intellectual brand" (what a strange word) has become a huge conglomerate that mostly sells mass-market collaborations with an extremely large profit margin and peter-pan-collared jackets.

 

[Lola701]

Very well put Lola, as always.

I'd also consider her work not very connected with her brand anymore, thus not so much "in discourse", as it might have been years ago. It's always good to remember that CDG, though considered an "intellectual brand" (what a strange word) has become a huge conglomerate that mostly sells mass-market collaborations with an extremely large profit margin and peter-pan-collared jackets.

Thank you.

I know it’s not the thread but my non-connection with CDG is my kind of controversial opinion. I have that other controversial opinion of not liking Hussein Chalayan.
I just don’t subscribe to that idea of very Arty, Ivory-tower ish vision of fashion very detached of any sense of reality.

I loved CDG FW2012 for example but it’s because for me, Rei, when she came to the scene, challenge the perception of fashion and in a way forced women to change their lifestyle, their approach to fashion in order to enter that world. FW2012 in that sense challenge the perception of wearability while offering a kind of very familiar representation of « clothes ».

When I look at Rei’s latest work, I see huge structures, impressive techniques but that’s it. What does it tells me about fashion? How can that proposition inspire me to challenge my perception of taste? How can it inspire me to be more daring?
I’m someone who in my perception, appreciation or consumption of fashion, enjoy to be challenged but when the challenge is just a structure, a performance or deemed as Art, I’m lost.

And indeed, the disconnect between her highest expression of creativity and her highest expression of commercialism is a bit puzzling.
Thank god, we can still find good pieces in the subs lines of that universe (particularly Junya for me).