La Grand Couturiere.

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McQueen is dead, Galliano is fired, Lacroix went bankrupt, Lagerfeld went soft, Valentino retired, Mugler isnt designing, Nicolas left Balenciaga and now Tisci is taking time off from couture. fashion is dead and i am not here to live with it

RIP Fashion as we know it

1858-2012

After a long period of thinking, I have realized that I hated the Chanel show. And please dont think this is just some frivolous thing, because I have never hated a Chanel show. If I’ve only liked one I forced myself to LOVE it. I honestly am a devoted Karl fan.

But let me explain why.

I feel like since Spring 2011 Haute Couture he’s really been trying to break into a more youthful market. And while it definitely worked for that show, Fall 2011 ready to wear wasn’t his best. Fall 2011 Couture I thought was great, Spring 2012 I thought was great, even though it should’ve been edited, and I really really liked Fall 2012 RTW. I think Karl should maybe lay off the whole youthful thing, because Spring 2013 imo was just super gimmicky. There are pieces that I loved, but most of it was just blech.

I think he’s definitely making it known that he wants a more youthful market. I think that’s what fashion is kind of transitioning into with social media growing stronger and fashion becoming invaded by tweens. You can tell just by the model castings he’s been doing that he was a more youthful look. Lindsey Wixson, Joan Smalls, Cara Delevigne (give me a sec so I can go vomit), just people who have a more youthful tone to them. With the Fall 2012 Couture show you could also tell that he was looking for a youthful market. Snoods, girly colors, etc. I just wish he could make it where it was back in 2009. I have always considered Spring 2010 Ready to Wear to be the first show I ever saw and that it’s what started my knowledge of fashion. I wish he could go back to that time because that’s when he wasn’t being “youthful and childish” he was being playful and you could see the genuine enjoyment on the models’ faces and even the audience.

Saying I hate a Chanel collection is one of the most painful things I’ve ever endured. Please Karl, please help. Please.

I think it ought to be said. I hear a lot of people who say “why are there so many male designers? women are so much better~!!!!” There’s a reason there are so many male designers. Women know how to make sensible designs. Yes, there are a load of amazing female designers *cough*reikawakubo*cough* but most of them are very sensible. You look at people like DVF and Donna Karan, and they make clothes that working women like to see, but men understand what women fantasize about wearing. Back in the twenties and thirties women ruled fashion. Elsa Schiaparelli, Madeleine Vionette, Madame Gres, and Coco Chanel. They ruled everything, they understood fashion and they left an impression in the fashion world that would never go away. But then, by the forties and fifties, Christian Dior, Pierre Balmain, Cristobal Balenciaga, and Hubert de Givenchy took over. They understood how a woman wanted to feel in clothes, there a quote that goes a long the lines that if a woman walked into a room wearing Balenciaga everybody’s eyes would be on her. If it werent for these men, modern fashion wouldn’t be around today, they changed the way women saw themselves in the mirror. I’m not saying that women had nothing to do with the way fashion is today, because they definitely did. But I’m saying that men have had such a big hand in it that you can’t avoid it. And most modern designers like Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs (blech), and Raf Simons are pretty much at the top of the industry (I think Karl is the king and Miuccia is queen). So basically, men present the fantasy of how women want to dress while women know what a modern woman wants to wear chic, simple clothes.