Sometimes, A specific idea or inspiration can overtake someone and they lose all sense of distance and perspective from said inspiration. They become enamoured of this Idee Fixe and are Hellbound to it, for good or bad. Danielle Sherman suffered from this effect in totality when it came to her rather unfortunate Spring 2015 Edun collection. There were Hardly any outfits that spoke on the principles of Urban, Contemporary dressing in the Present Tense, her wares looked more like Costumes of some Tween Book Drama made Movie with the Latest Doughy Faced, Talentless actress heading the cast (Did someone say Jennifer Lawrence...???)
Admittedly, Broken Down into it's component parts and rearranged with other pieces separate from this collection, the pieces, Inspired by painting on African masks and Judo Outfits (wasn't that also a thing Last Spring?) and even the Work of Roy Lichtenstein, would make for Interesting Fashion. However, shown the way they were, the constituent parts did not harmonize with one another. It looked Costume-y and more Obviously, Pretentious. Arty for the sake of Art alone with not a Conclusively clear focus on the Woman that would look good in these combinations.
The difficulty in severely Critiquing the collection is that many of the Ideas Sent forth were quite Beautiful, Those Spots just became Trying in the utmost about halfway through, as they didn't contribute any of the sense of Exoticism or Ethnicity that Sherman intended. And Counterpointed against the Asian Judo Styling, The clothes looked Disjointed. Sherman hit Pay Dirt when she let the Simple, Natural beauty of the clothes speak... A belted waist Black dress with White and Red accents on Binx Walton was Deceptively simple but looked Nuanced and Sleek, Also, A White Dress with the Spot detailing early in the show was Clearly Powerful.
Danielle Sherman is keeping Edun forward in the minds of the Fashion Cognoscenti by giving very Innovative Ideas to digest in her fashion, and with this collection proves she can design a Tricky collection that still has impact and is concurrent with the prevailing winds of the Zeitgeist. But she will need to begin tempering that creativity with Judiciousness if she is to be truly Successful!
That's All.
Bye4Now!
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