May, 16th, 2016

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CRAFTING MEMORABLE
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Isn’t a runway show a s top + think act ?

“What we should ask is will we have enough creative people who are strong enough and willing to do what is necessary right now to follow that madhouse” said @RafSimons @TelegraphFashion. So what did exactly #RafSimons do about it in his tenure @Dior? Even the fashion edi tors from the soi-disant @Condenast & @Hearst were caving in in their reviews to the (advertising revenues) diktats of the maisons chez @LVMH and @Kering_official. Coming after three years pour cracher dans la soupe is unbecoming. Monsieur Simons should have fought it while at #Dior not getting lost in #Dior andHim PR-erring or entangled with the #ChristianDior Couture team over there. Maybe #RafSimons did fight it by not renewing his contract in a house that saw him bring in a 60% sale rise from 2011 despite an aesthetic fourre- tout-de-rue approach which I denounced its limit by not catering to .. “the creative”, in not being forced upon by the streets but by being forged through by raw artistry. Fact is, he lost my respect a long time ago and a real bunch of edi tors too. Clique du chic. Then you look at #JunTakahashi bursts of energy, collection after collection @Undercover_Lab wondering, if his [#AW15] #fashion is realsocialitik, isn’t that blast of shards, a true, steady commitment to forge ahead? Wouldn’t you wear a (creative) life that could cut you? Better to bleed than to bl and or worse blend like the poor stairs of style @FestivaldeCannes.

I am disenchanted.

Br ands are not execs. Execs are not designers. Designers are not product managers. Imagine Picasso with Arnault and Toledano behind him with Delphine over sighting his shoulder on his cubism ideas not very bankable Avenue Montaigne. No Demoiselles d’Avignon, sorry citizens of humanité. Designers need free dom. Corporations are killing creativity. Let @waltervanbeiren donckofficial design menswear @lanvinofficial, bring @azzedinealaiaofficial to shake his talent @muglerofficial, @rickowensonline to deconstruct it @elsaschiaparelli, @irisvanherpen to passionately @fendi it and @chalayanstudio to bold it @chanelofficial.

Invent. Intent.
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