As we all know, today kicked off New York Fashion Week. Even though most Glamazons are anticipating what designers will have in store, there are quite a few journalists who are less than enthusiastic about it all.
To top off the recent negative comments made by Cathy Horyn and Vogue Paris Editor Carine Roitfeld, New York Times writer Guy Trebay shared his dismay about what he thinks Fashion Week has become. Here’s what he had to say:
On What New York Fashion Week once was:
“Fashion Week was once like [an enchanting circus], too, an annual influx of exotic creatures that descended on the city, come here to enact their strange rituals and perform crazy stunts for crowds of passionate devotees gathered under big tents. Shy, long-limbed young models, heads cocked tentatively like baby impala, could be spotted in clusters all over Manhattan, darting and leaping the curbs on their way to the shows.”
On what New York Fashion Week has become:
“But what the increasingly industrialized Fashion Week now signally lacks is a certain giddy excitement, the fanfare and promise of genius that were common in the days when you could still get close enough to it all to see the greasepaint and smell the sweat.“
Trebay even noted that without sir Alexander McQueen & Christian Dior’s John Galliano fashion just isn’t the same. Wow. Do you agree?
Remember when we covered Dior’s Fall 2011 couture collection and noted it lacked imagination and refinement without Galliano’s touch? Well, that certainly does substantiate Trebay’s point. And we are all feeling the loss of Alexander McQueen and his creative genius.
But there are other designers from Marc Jacobs to Jason Wu to Christian Siriano that are certainly worth getting excited about, in my opinion.
What are you thoughts on what Trebay had to say, Glamazons? Do you agree with him? Is Fashion Week less exciting without those designers?
Love & Fashion,
Glamazon Ms Kamille
