So why did the week feel like a broken record?
Originality was easy to explain. Resemblance of designs were really obvious. If you to take out pieces from each designer and put them together, it makes a more cohesive collection.
Yikes. Philippine Fashion Week isn't one for change, but couldn't they have hit a fashion button other than redial?
For the holiday, fabrics are still innovative, but shapes weren't out of the box, with tough hounds tooth tunics, cropped black trousers worn with layered tops or crystal dresses and Medges.
Dimple Lim, who started with bondage dresses that went to draping and mixing of different fabrics in variations of sheen. It was a definite hodgepodge of colors, prints and textures. Lim surely didn't hold back for this collection.
Minimal, mature and in no way shy, Xernan Orticio went bold in blood red ensembles with models crowned with thorns. However there was nothing really new in terms of cut and silhouette. His collection was stamped with his signature fit, strategic cut-outs and penchant for geometric details.
Albert Andrada and Edgar San Diego's collections were also abit generic: Chinese buns, high collars, geisha dresses and structured shoulders. They might as well have hung out a sign that said “I ♥ China!”
Kermit Tesorio's collection was all in for animal cruelty. He opened with a black coat that sported real fur. It wouldn't be a surprise if those horsehoof booties came from horses. The collection was a mixture of crystals and sequins that had a trill for the outlandish. The finale was a gold crystal body suit that was reminiscent of On Aura Tout Vu.
Perhaps, then, Ariel Vasquez do as he pleases, his collection of naïve shapes and romantic floral cutouts. Mr. Vasquezisn’t a hit-and-run designer. If he suffers from anything, it is that he still has a hungover for summer. He was taken with floral details and cropped pants. His models didn't really wore anything aside from the unbuttoned shirts.
Menswear as womenswear? Check. Androgynous chic? Been there, done that. But, it seems like one trend that’s going higher and higher as the heel sit requires is women’s wear worn by men. The male models at Chris Jasler’s show have been convincing us that pointy-toed heelless pieces are the it thing.
Many designers for the Philippine Fashion Week Holiday 2012 lacked a clear identity. Or, in the case of Bench, the style is so tied to the beliefs of its designer, Rajo Laurel, that one has the feeling it would instantly come unraveled if he left.
The week closed with Jerome Salaya Ang's collection rip-off of Burton's Spring/Summer 2012 with Lee's Autumn/Winter 1997-98 that could be smelled miles away.What made it such a McQueen give-away were the showercaps, Marie Antoinette prints, and not to mention the circular cut, highwaist,and oscillating ruffles.It's the perfect low-end McQueen look-alike collection.
Holiday 2012 presented collections that followed global trends. It was good to see Philippine Fashion finally catching up with the worldwide stage. But did Holiday 2012 set new trends on the runway? Maybe in a few years time it would.
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