Fashion week: John Galliano pays tribute to his heroes

HAUTE COUTURE - Fashion special: autumn/winter menswear for 2010/2011. Independent Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck concentrates on form and volumes, Paris Fashion Week darling Kris van Assche reassesses the basics, while perennial favourite John Galliano revisits his heroes.

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[Bdiddly1]

does anyone actually buy these hideous outfits?what a joke.

[jessehalstedt]

john galliano sucks just a tired old queen. i dont like him ever sense i saw him use all that fur one season just obnoxious amounts pink and purple. someone should skin him, and make an ugly jacket or slippers. stupid queen.

[calaftheeast]

@SuperWitch11

Nobody gets to wear those miraculously transforming clothes in every day life.

If you don't understand the worth of leather ad fur to this industry, then move yourself gently to the side. Fashion is not just about Gaga, Kanye and Beyonce and their costumes. IT IS AN INDUSTRY, where millions of people earn their bread from. It is about craftsmanship, materials, tradition, workmanship and creativity.

Without leather or fur, there will never be a thing called 'fashion'.

[calaftheeast]

@SuperWitch11

What you call 'general design' is beyond just clothing. You can talk about innovation with architecture, web design, industrial design etc. Fashion is just embellishment and surface application. That is what it has always been. Invention of the corset or a bra was an innovation, yes. But nobody is doing anything useful and innovative now, since they cannot afford to or it simply cannot be envisioned. Hussein Chalayan's spectacles are precisely that: the spectacles of technology

[calaftheeast]

@SuperWitch11

...afford to alienate their global customers. KL is whatever he is, and i am not a fan of his work over at Fendi. But if you want to see a creative approach toward fur design, he is the guy to follow. Whether you like his work or not is irrelevant. 

Fur's utility cannot be replaced by anything else. Not only it keeps you warm, but it is beautiful and soft. What else is there that looks that opulent? Its glorious look is also a part of its utility in fashion.

[calaftheeast]

@SuperWitch11

Innovation does not exist in fashion. people will always have two arms and two legs. There are only a few tricks you can do, the rest is solely surface application. Lady gaga adds stuff on a dress. But what she wears is practically a dress. There is no innovation.

This is not Apple reinventing the way we listen and obtain music.

Chanel is a billion dollar industry that sells stuff in every continent of the planet. There is only so much they can do, because they cannot...

[SuperWitch11]

@calaftheeast and about the leather...i also think that leather is gross. i don't like it in any fashion application other than shoes. and the occasional jacket but i'd rather not see straight up animal products being used in design.

I've seen more innovation out of designers who don't use animal products...than i have from designers who do.

and basically the designers that do are the very basics like Armani, Lagerfeld, and the Designers at Gucci.

Basic and Bored...nothnx

[SuperWitch11]

@calaftheeast well here's where we're going to disagree....Karl Lagerfeld, in my opinion, is one of THE most dreadfully boring and uncreative designers to date...his work is tired, OLD, and so NOT fashion forward. Chanel is such a bore its so absolutely basic in the worst way. Fur's "utility" can easily be replaced by less expensive and less harmful means....Innovation is what the fashion industry is about...and if you don't see that then you don't understand fashion design...or general design.

[calaftheeast]

@cosmosman

Who cares about creativity?

Fashion, or clothing, is also about utility, and nothing replaces fur in that department. It is not any different than wearing leather. It is the same thing: killing an animal for its skin. And fake fur is very destructive to the environment. The pollution created when you are turning oil into plastic hair is beyond comprehension.

Just look at Karl Lagerfeld for Fendi to see creativity displayed in fur design. These are all farm-raised animals.

[cosmosman]

@calaftheeast i think fur of any kind is absolutely hideos and obnoxious in fasion...it's tired, tacky, overdone, and completely unoriginal. Show me a Fur peice that screams creativity...

[calaftheeast]

@jessehalstedt

Everybody uses fur.

This is fashion. What is the alternative here? Fake fur? Do you know how detrimental fake fur is to the environment? It is oil after all, huge pollution and huge amounts of energy wasted to turn oil residue into hair.