The Real Winner Of Paris Fashion Week, An Afterthought

Gareth Pugh Fall/Winter 2013

Poetry aside, comparisons forgotten - I will now speak my word and thought, as it is.

The best collection for Fall/Winter 2013, presented during Paris Fashion Week, was - by far - presented by Gareth Pugh. It was a romantic, psychologic and deeply emotional exercise in womenswear, respectively its recurrent icon: the dress.

A balance act of soft and hard, cut and dimension. It felt massive and out of proportion, out of sight with the 'real' world. Women disappeared in grey pyramids of crispy textiles - just to be resurrected again as superhuman goddesses. Similar ideas have been proposed by Junya Watanabe and Thom Browne, and lately also by Maison Martin Margiela or Giles but it never felt as 'right' and logical. The transformation of each look happened so meticulously, one had to look twice to feel the 'difference' - just to arrive at the total other end, in the end.
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Post Graduate

A false encyclopaedic guide to the Central Saint Martins collections, presenting:
Erin Hawkes B.A. Graduate Collection 2012

1. Balenciaga Fall/Winter 2012
2. Gilbert & George Cabbage Worship, 1982
3. Robert Morris Untitled, 1976

First a close reference, secondly a related artwork, thirdly a random thing. Similar minds think alike and ideas are to be claimed. Whoever learns from the best and combines/manipulates their own thoughts will succeed.
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