Poised for Perfection…

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(Photograph by Christopher James of WKWYDLN)

>> It's grandiose and scary to throw around the word perfection.  I cringe sometimes backstage at shows when you hear extravagant cries by old French ladies at the shows in Paris who cry out "C'est magnifique" or "C'est parfait" in the manner of a camp dame.  Afterall isn't "parfait" a pedestal too high to put a designer upon and when you throw out that P word, isn't the only way to go down thereafter?  I really really want to hesitate using the p word with regards to Jonathan Saunders' A/W 11-12 collection seeing as I obviously don't want to see him in a downward spiral, yet as I look back on the show, I struggle to see any fault there.  It seems this was the season where print, colour, placement of that print and colour together silhouette and the styling extras all came together in a harmony for Saunders, and you're trying mighty hard to see something wrong with it but you just can't.  I may well have clasped my hands together at the end and nearly exclaimed "Oh it's stupendous!" at the end much like the French dames.  

The prints came in maximal doses especially in the passages where a William Morris-esque wallpaper print came creeping into shirts and mid-calf skirts and we got unlikely colour combinations that in paint swatches next to each other shouldn't have worked but through Saunders way of pairing them in separates that colour blocked against each other, it did.  Damn, I had to stop myself from typing Pure Perfection there.  The seemingly prim and elongated silhouettes were balanced out with nipped in waists and sheer chiffon to prevent anything from being too prissy.  It was a collection where you could very easily step back, eliminate your personal taste and bias and look at it ever so clearly and see it as a turning point collection for the designer as well as one that is thoroughly accomplished.  In eBay feedback comments speak, it's therefore a "A++++++++++++++++"

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The platform peep-toe shoes and boots made with Christian Louboutin only served to add the final weighty punch to every outfit where so often the feet are afterthoughts…

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Even the brief appearance of a few menswear ensembles made show sense in this instance with the colours complimenting the womenswear as well as showing how Saunders can expand his brand…

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23 comments

  8. Definitely need the shoes in the second to last en de 3th to last pictures!!!! 🙂 I’d really appreciate it if you’ll give your opinion about my blog!
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  15. I thought the really shit menswear knits as an after thought were just splendid… cream golfer pants, royal blue blazer and a green crew, delicious. What every guy wants. I do wonder…

  20. I agree with everything you say (and you say it well), but I thought already his spring-summer 11 collection was (the dreaded) ‘pure perfection’, in terms of a fresh approach to colour and pattern. A certain combination of orange and bright blue has been burned permanently onto my retinas :). i’m so happy for j. saunders.

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