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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris



    Hmm, Johnny didn't post this yet. I hope he liked it! [66]









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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    #2
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    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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    • Casius
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2006
      • 4772

      #3
      Re: Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris

      I really can't say I am or ever have been a big CDG fan but this just doesn't do it for me. It's just patches sewn on to suits and for some odd reason, it all looks sloppy to me.
      "because the young are whores. dealers come to carol to get the rock"

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      • Faust
        kitsch killer
        • Sep 2006
        • 37852

        #4
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        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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        • Faust
          kitsch killer
          • Sep 2006
          • 37852

          #5
          Re: Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris









          Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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          • Faust
            kitsch killer
            • Sep 2006
            • 37852

            #6
            Re: Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris



            The theme of the show, as per Ms. Horyn of the New York Times



            "The music at Comme des Garcons was American, straight from the
            Depression 30s?that weakly cheerful paper moon song, etc. Rei
            Kawakubo?s show, held at a cheesy nightclub on the Rue de Rivoli,
            opened with washed tartan jackets over T-shirts and wool shorts with
            half kilts around the front. Punk was my initial thought. But then, out
            came crushed top hats, ransom-note style graphics that invoked store
            close-outs, and jackets with hems that had been cut to resemble severe
            wear. Of course fashion shows held in nightclubs, however cheesy, are
            ?nothing but make-believe,? to use a line from one of the songs, but
            there was a pessimism about this collection. Although I prefer Kawakubo
            when she is more abstract and less literal, and more in one of her
            world-breaking moods, she touches on the fact that these are hard
            times, and in so many ways beyond market slumps. There is also
            something confrontational about the clothes, apparent in the
            ransom-note graphics, and I imagine it?s aimed in the direction of the
            luxury makers."

            Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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            • sbw4224
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2006
              • 571

              #7
              Re: Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris



              I'm imagining this without the patches and with less script on the shirts and it's not bad, but not great. I find patches to be a fairly lazy approach to design, regardless of what political or social message they might preach.



              A few nice pieces that are fairly classic CDG, such as that last coat with wooden buttons, are sprinkled in here, but on a whole this is a fairly disappointing collection.



              I was hoping for a progression of CDG's spring layering idea, but instead all we got were Hot Topic pants with pseudo-social commentary patches. [N]

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              • Johnny
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2006
                • 1923

                #8
                Re: Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris



                Thanks for posting Faust. I couldn't bring myself to do it.......




                As well as being pretty irrelevant to mostif not all here at sz, this is pretty much irrelevant to everyone isn's it? I find it faintly embarassing in fact. You can deal with all of the comments in favour - like nice fabrics in parts, nice tartan (or glen plaid as the americans call it(another irritation)), the details around one fabric tearing away to show another, erm interesting hats (I'm struggling here) - by pointing out that all of it has been done to death before. Political statements patched onto jackets!Give me a break.Vivienne Westood! I can't think of anyone more irrelevant to modern fashion than her.And more fundamentally, at least from a consumer perspective,it looks really really shit. It doesn't really matter to me that there are a couple of OK plain black polyester jackets there.




                What's mostdissappointing is that spring summer looks pretty fresh and the three jackets idea is one that I think caught peoples imagination. This is just a backwards step.Just when we need someone to challenge the dominance and ubiquity of the darkdrapeysludgyhero, this comes up. Makes me want to be a darkdrapeysludgyhero.


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                • philip nod
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2007
                  • 5903

                  #9
                  Re: Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris

                  [quote user="Johnny"]

                  Thanks for posting Faust. I couldn't bring myself to do it.......




                  As well as being pretty irrelevant to mostif not all here at sz, this is pretty much irrelevant to everyone isn's it? I find it faintly embarassing in fact. You can deal with all of the comments in favour - like nice fabrics in parts, nice tartan (or glen plaid as the americans call it(another irritation)), the details around one fabric tearing away to show another, erm interesting hats (I'm struggling here) - by pointing out that all of it has been done to death before. Political statements patched onto jackets!Give me a break.Vivienne Westood! I can't think of anyone more irrelevant to modern fashion than her.And more fundamentally, at least from a consumer perspective,it looks really really shit. It doesn't really matter to me that there are a couple of OK plain black polyester jackets there.




                  What's mostdissappointing is that spring summer looks pretty fresh and the three jackets idea is one that I think caught peoples imagination. This is just a backwards step.Just when we need someone to challenge the dominance and ubiquity of the darkdrapeysludgyhero, this comes up. Makes me want to be a darkdrapeysludgyhero.


                  Linea will make you one for $6000 over sartorialoft.

                  i can't believe looking at this that i actually own a few homme plus coats that i would never part with

                  [/quote]
                  One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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                  • Johnny
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 1923

                    #10
                    Re: Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris

                    [86] yes, i saw that!

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                    • deleuze
                      Senior Member
                      • Jul 2007
                      • 418

                      #11
                      Re: Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris



                      I don't know about all the branding on the patches within the context of the collection. I guess it must beirony . . .

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                      • philip nod
                        Senior Member
                        • Aug 2007
                        • 5903

                        #12
                        Re: Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris

                        ever since that rolling stone (patches) collection a few years back has the label gone south and quickly
                        One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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                        • deleuze
                          Senior Member
                          • Jul 2007
                          • 418

                          #13
                          Re: Comme des Garcons Homme Plus - FW08/09 - Paris

                          There are some pieces that I do like though. It has a similar vibe to Junya's collection last year just replacing most the meat with some added cheese.

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