The Misses: Lanvin, Christian Dior, Balenciaga; Images: Imaxtree
THE MISSES:
Lanvin
“Oh Alber, what’s happened here?! This is not good. This isn’t even just okay. By his once untouchable standards it’s actually pretty terrible. I hate, hate, hate how messy everything at Lanvin has become. Eventually one crosses the line from delightfully eccentric and idiosyncratic to just plain sloppy and this collection is the living embodiment of that.” [Spike413]
“Why is he doing this cutesy, prom-y stuff? Sorta looks like Valentino at a bad day. The appeal of his Lanvin has always been clothes for mature, confident, sensual and powerful women. There’s nothing of that here.” [Marc10]
“My first reaction was more than half of the clothes look extremely cheap and not of great quality for Lanvin. And, some do not even seem to be well adjusted. One of my favorite brands and this is really terrible.” [constanceMafioso]
See all the looks from the Lanvin collection.
Christian Dior
“WTF IS THIS??…..seriously this is the most uninspiring show done under the Christian Dior label EVER.” [bbofbalenciaga]
“Love the bags. Hate the shoes. And the clothes are meh.” [FND74]
“I think the difference is that the woman who finds Dior’s garments actually desirable, and the woman who can relate to Raf’s vision of femininity, do not actually exist. Even the models who are selling the collection don’t even want it. This is yet ANOTHER dreadful collection in what has to be one of the least successful tenures at any design house.” [Mutterlein]
See all the looks from the Christian Dior collection.
Balenciaga
“It was the worst collection of the whole week and his worst Balenciaga collection ever. It was weak, dated (I thought it was Phoebe Philo for Chloe) and had nothing to do with Balenciaga. Even that soundtrack was bad. And those accessories…” [perhydrol]
“You know when you’re at school and you already passed the semester, but you are obligated to take that one last test, so just go there and finish it as quickly as possible so you get on vacation already… Some bits of it were quite good actually, the white sleep dresses were much better than the ones at Givenchy. But he was clearly over it to even bother developing something further. Last paycheck in and foot on the door.” [Marc10]
“This was just pathetic. The installation was weird, the music was weird, the finale with him taking selfies was weird. BYE BYE MR. WANG.” [Inlimbo]
