Paris Fashion Week as always was a major destination for the designer crowd recently. Boasting some of the hottest names in the industry and an A grade guest list, Paris is the home of Haute Courture.
Naturally plenty of press were on hand to give a blow by blow description of each days high and low lights. Now that the closing ceremony has come and gone the critics have given their overview of proceedings and as always it has involved an over use of adjectives and overstating the obvious.
Alexander McQueen
Rather than contribute to the gigantic amount of press readily available online about the event I found a very interesting article in NYmag.com. Titled “What the Critics Said About Paris Fashion Week, and What They Really Meant” the piece analyses the claims of “experts” and breaks down exactly what they were trying to say.
In response to Robin Givhan verdict of “edginess” for the Washington Post the NYmag site says:
“Remember how Jay Z was going to retire and then popped up in Budweiser commercials? Yeah, well, "edginess" on the runway is a sellout, too. When everyone does it, it's just an eye roller.”
Glamour is still alive
Cathy Horyn of the NY Post wrote “If you were to mentally trace the silhouette made by a jacket’s extra volumes — the cubes, the wings of fabrics — you would roughly have the outline of the contemporary person in the street, with her layers.”.
NY Mag.com translation:
“If you traced the shadow of a model wearing a Rick Owens coat, it would match up with the shadow of a normal woman — hips included!”
As you can see it’s a fun post that cuts through a lot of the BS and jargon to call it like it was. So if you want to know what happened at this years Paris fashion Week, cruise over to NYMag.com for a lesson in the language of critique.
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