Matthew Williamson.
Fall 2014 was finding Matthew Williamson continuing in his Banishment of his Signature Boho-Glam girl that he has cultivated so precisely and thoroughly over the many years he's been designing. He's trying to dress her Polar Opposite, The "Working Woman"
Turning your back on the things that made you a success is a slippery slope to traverse, For one thing you risk making yourself look like a fool venturing into Unfamiliar Territory and also of Alienating the Core Customer that made you famous to begin with. But another Positive thing is, That one should Never, Ever get too comfortable and set in their ways so as to become a Caricature of oneself (Roberto Cavalli... I am looking in your Direction!) Moving in different directions other than the Well-Trod path is always an endeavour that should be taken up, it can yield Many positive results and show one a side of themselves they may never have known existed!
The Latter portion is most definitely been the outcome for Williamson! The change has done him good and while his Boho Spirit hasn't been even credulously fully Exorcised, It has been locked in the Attic and brought down only for Special Occasions! Williamson's more Strict approach was welcome and served him well in this collection, Opening with a Beauty of a Blue topper, Williamson announced from the start that he wasn't joking around.
A Pretty and Naif Graphic Floral kept things Fun and Exuberant for much of the first third of the Show... And then the Star Prints Came out to play. If this began the wheels coming off the bus of restraint and started to send Williamson Careening back into the Exuberance of the past, He was certainly applying all the pressure he could full on the brakes to keep it in check, Things did burble up and splatter like a Boiling pot of Polenta at times. But hey, You can't ask a Man like Williamson to go Cold Turkey!
A Pretty Red tank shift with Star Decorations at Exit No. 11 was very Pretty and Restrained, An Orgy of Sequined Stars and Stripes and a Brief Hem at Exit No. 21... was Pretty and NOT Restrained! But a Calculated piece of Heaven was Restraint Personified in a YSL Louche Pantsuit at Exit No. 30!
The Graphic Striped Stunner done up in Sequins that closed the show was one of the most impressive pieces Williamson has ever made and was walking that line between Exuberance and Willful Judiciousness that made it Extra Special and Extra Exciting! This was a most Amazing and Spectacularly Consummate showing from Williamson and one that gives hope to the future. It also demonstrated with Ease, that Williamson Need not retire his Boho Girl to satisfy his now more mature clients, Those one's he dressed in the beginning of his career are now Big Girls in a Grown Up world. He proved he can design for both and make a Fabulous symbiosis of the two! And anyway, as for those Boho that he once dressed that are now Working Women... there is always a Coterie of Upstarts just waiting in the wings to take their place, and they should be pulling up Any Minute Now...
That's All.
Bye4Now!
Fall 2014 was finding Matthew Williamson continuing in his Banishment of his Signature Boho-Glam girl that he has cultivated so precisely and thoroughly over the many years he's been designing. He's trying to dress her Polar Opposite, The "Working Woman"
Turning your back on the things that made you a success is a slippery slope to traverse, For one thing you risk making yourself look like a fool venturing into Unfamiliar Territory and also of Alienating the Core Customer that made you famous to begin with. But another Positive thing is, That one should Never, Ever get too comfortable and set in their ways so as to become a Caricature of oneself (Roberto Cavalli... I am looking in your Direction!) Moving in different directions other than the Well-Trod path is always an endeavour that should be taken up, it can yield Many positive results and show one a side of themselves they may never have known existed!
The Latter portion is most definitely been the outcome for Williamson! The change has done him good and while his Boho Spirit hasn't been even credulously fully Exorcised, It has been locked in the Attic and brought down only for Special Occasions! Williamson's more Strict approach was welcome and served him well in this collection, Opening with a Beauty of a Blue topper, Williamson announced from the start that he wasn't joking around.
A Pretty and Naif Graphic Floral kept things Fun and Exuberant for much of the first third of the Show... And then the Star Prints Came out to play. If this began the wheels coming off the bus of restraint and started to send Williamson Careening back into the Exuberance of the past, He was certainly applying all the pressure he could full on the brakes to keep it in check, Things did burble up and splatter like a Boiling pot of Polenta at times. But hey, You can't ask a Man like Williamson to go Cold Turkey!
A Pretty Red tank shift with Star Decorations at Exit No. 11 was very Pretty and Restrained, An Orgy of Sequined Stars and Stripes and a Brief Hem at Exit No. 21... was Pretty and NOT Restrained! But a Calculated piece of Heaven was Restraint Personified in a YSL Louche Pantsuit at Exit No. 30!
The Graphic Striped Stunner done up in Sequins that closed the show was one of the most impressive pieces Williamson has ever made and was walking that line between Exuberance and Willful Judiciousness that made it Extra Special and Extra Exciting! This was a most Amazing and Spectacularly Consummate showing from Williamson and one that gives hope to the future. It also demonstrated with Ease, that Williamson Need not retire his Boho Girl to satisfy his now more mature clients, Those one's he dressed in the beginning of his career are now Big Girls in a Grown Up world. He proved he can design for both and make a Fabulous symbiosis of the two! And anyway, as for those Boho that he once dressed that are now Working Women... there is always a Coterie of Upstarts just waiting in the wings to take their place, and they should be pulling up Any Minute Now...
That's All.
Bye4Now!
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