Gucci Fall/Winter 08/09

Did you already start shopping for the Fall. Well if you are in Paris you should as the weather is not going to get better. Gucci has an amazing collection this time around. We love the bags and jackets.

"Gucci's deep pockets clearly inspire Giannini to push the boat out into dangerous waters, but moments of relative restraint accounted for the collection's most appealing pieces. All those folk-art prints, for instance, looked fresh. A chunky gray knit turned must-have with a studded leather trim. Coins and charms were not only wrapped around waists, they also winningly decorated the placket of a shirt and piled onto a messenger bag. Coats and jackets were enhanced with velvet and fur trims (as opposed to the full whack of an astrakhan coat, for example). And a ponyskin biker jacket lined in beaver (worn over striped jeans) felt like the essence of Giannini's casual/opulent/young ethos. Her ability to make her fantasies real was her original strength. Here, she went some way to recapturing it." by Tim Blanks

Comments

[Nirodha]

I like what I've seen of this collection, so far. However, I don't care for the slim cut pants though. For a tall, slim men I think a wider, more relaxed leg looks better, as slim cut pants make this body type look like a torso mounted on toothpicks.

This collection seems much nicer than the previous S/S collection; which I thought it was dreadful, for the most part.

As for the writer's comment about the collection "[pushing] the boat out into dangerous waters", I'm not sure what he's on about really. I don't see anything particularly outrageous about the collection.

[BOB]

A few comments...
-- fashion must change, and that means that proportions change, too.
-- Gucci needs to look young, and young men are moving to slim pants. Thus the danger in the collection shown is that rich old guys will look poor in it (but who is to say that wider pants wont be in the shops, too?)
-- Of course, when the skinny stuff comes along in fashion, I think the pants should stop at 34 waist, maximum.
--- LAST -- one of the quickest ways to seem "past it" is to comment that the new fashions are unwearable, especially when I might not be the person they were aimed at.
Thus, I just admire them and let it go.

[Nirodha]

Bob, as a fashion designer, I realize that fashion must change - every time I put together a new collection I have to be innovative, if I was to survive in a very competitive marketplace. However, not all young men are moving to slim cut pants. As a matter of fact, I'd say that a vast majority of them are not: My assessment is based upon what I actually see being worn on the streets; not what some fashion editor or stylist promotes as the latest trend or "hip de jour."

Slim cut pants have been fading in and out of men's fashion for the last 150 years or so. Every time they come back into style I still dislike them. And, I'll continue to do so, regardless of whether someone thinks I'm "past it" or not. *middle finger*