wwd.com: “Playing subtly on the house’s codes, Jean Paul Gaultier infused the lineup with a playful reinterpretation of glamour elements, such as slits placed on a sheath evening dress, the side leg of fluid pants or on sleeves of tailored jackets.” | more >
Maya Singer / style.com: “Resort isn’t the season for flights of fancy, really, but even so, there was a winning matter-of-factness to the new collection from Theyskens’ Theory. As Olivier Theyskens pointed out while presenting the collection today, his aim this time out was to make sure every piece in the collection was “a real essential,” which pushed him to make a tight edit of his silhouettes.” | more >
wwd.com: ““I’m kind of obsessed with cool girls,” said Olivier Theyskens, describing his latest collection. “What she’s doing in the clothes, how she would wear them, what essentials she’ll need.” The answer was a lineup of mostly black and white pieces, precisely tailored with a dash of street.” | more >
Maya Singer / style.com: “The designers did well to approach the transitional season from the point of view of making mix-and-match, layerable clothes—this was not a Resort collection offering fantasies of early summers or tropical vacations, but one that dealt with the reality of not-quite-hot, not-quite-cold, changeable spring weather in a sophisticated and streetwise way.” | more >
wwd.com: “Nicole and Michael Colovos amped up their fabric and textural play for resort. A sweatshirt and slit skirt combination, for example, featured an embossed leather front and viscose nylon back, while a wool jacket had ballistic nylon sleeves.” | more >
Tim Blanks / style.com: “Given the primal, tribal intensity of a Rick Owensshow, the designer himself can sound remarkably offhand about what it is that he does. “I’m known for three things,” he said today. “The big coat, the big boots, the big T-shirt.” And so he gave them to his public. But if that was all he did, the story would stop here. Of course it didn’t, and those “three things” were just components—albeit key ones—in a collection that took Owens somewhere new.” | more >
wwd.com: “Powerfully pushing his aesthetic forward without forsaking his dark sensibility, Rick Owens worked exquisite surface details and couture volumes with Japanese influences. The result was one of the designer’s best collections in recent memory, delivered with plenty of romance and some terrific clothes.” | more >
