Givenchy fail

It's the Paris collections. Some of them are good, some very bad. Though I had my hopes up, one of those that failed was Givenchy.


Describing his pre-fall collection, I wrote that the designer, Riccardo Tisci, is "unpredictable and sometimes a mess; his work smacks of immaturity, as if a thousand hasty ideas had bubbled to the surface without reflection." Unfortunately, this season's outing was a particularly bad mess, as he seemed to be trying for a marriage of frumpy ladies' suits with sexy lace and bare skin. The result was incoherent, to say the least.


The show opened with lots of pantsuits, which may be what comes to mind for him when he thinks 'commercial', followed by some lace and feathers. It was the kind of inanity that Tisci falls back on when he runs out of other ideas. There were also some terrible looks for men. Perhaps we are witnessing the devolution of this house from cutting edge to comical.