Well SHOWstudio, congratulations again on managing another spectacular nadir in your eight year life for gleeful irrelevance!! During this, our darkest moment of economic downturn since the early eighties, I just can't decide whether it's sheer insensitivity/ignorance or just utter genius on the part of Nick 'political' Knight. While all the newspapers talking about the oncoming death of the retail sector or the fact we are now knee-deep in s*** because middle class denses have been stockpiling on the concept-clothes too zealously, SHOWstudio, like a blithely unaware younger sibling with an itchy phone cam and a case of badly-inflamed verbiage is bleating about 'schlocky echelons' and 'mustardy satin'. 'Delicious delicious, oh how boring!' Find yourselves in Private Eye very soon!
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Dialogue from Silence of the Lambs isn't usually the fodder of fashion press releases, even at its darkest schlocky echelons. But Peter Jensen is an exception to every fashion rule and that's the reason we love him. For S/S 2009 the show was titled 'Jodie', as always betraying both his inspirations and ideal heroine of the collection. In this instance it was Jodie Foster that roamed Jensen's catwalk, dressed not only as Clarice Starling (attache cases, oversized tailored jackets and grey marl jogging-suits) but in chiffony evening frocks straight from the wardrobe of Frannie Berry in Hotel Newhampshire and court-room chic courtesy of Sarah Tobias in The Accused. While referencing them heavily in his own mind, Jensen never lets his themes overpower the clothes. Remember Clarice's revelation that we covet what we see everyday? Well Jensen's everyday staples were wearable, salable and indeed often covetable - witness sensational flat-brogues in mustardy satin and the beautiful Julie Verhoeven print fabrics. This show won't win Jensen any new recruits, but for those already buying into his quirky classics with a twist there was much to choose from. Oh, and one more thing Mr jensen: love your suits.
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In reply to bamia:
And your point is? That every review from the collections should be a snarky rehash of the broadsheet reports, to chastise young designers, most of whom are living on the breadline themselves, for making fashion?
Actually, the job of 'younger' fashion press like SHOWstudio right now is to support 'entry level' British designers who are under threat of being unsupported by the 'other crunch' - the threatened 'squeeze' of London Fashion Week by the encroaching New York and Milan calendars.
Since when has enthusiasm for good design been ideologically incompatible with a recession? Lucien Lelong encouraged Parisians to buy couture during the Second World War, to prevent the ateliers from foundering. And thank God. If the Chambre Syndicale hadn't have come out in support, we would never have had the New Look.
And one last word, Bamia - I appreciate that you regard yourself as something of a Engels-class intellectual giant, but when you read that stock market traders dealing principally in commodities have caused the economic downturn, I don't think they're talking about stockpiling mustard satin skirts, do you?
In reply to bamia:
Ah, we've met before, have we? Now we're getting closer to it. You may have noted that I actually left the library in early 2006 - before you joined as a viewer, "bamia". Who are you really?
A highly intelligent human being who knows how to be absolutely gracious when needed to be gracious ... magnanimous when the moment requires it ..... stimulating , honest, sometimes accurate , an excellent vocabulary , with a brilliant and modest sense of 'self-importance ' , impressive in the matters of the role of fashion, not impressed easily , quick in thought, very conscious , blessed with intellectual mastery but not blessed by the goddess of FORTUNE as referred in the text .... and yet until now not being able to master the art of .. it is not what you say but how you say it ...Oh well what do we know, the Showstudio's 'audience ' we are after all , and I quote : ' bunch of grubbing povvy aspirants ' like the mind in question ....
If we all could reach such state of " perfection " !!! ... God bless the lucky one !
Thank you Bamia ! .... and to think that we thought you were so
'intelligent ' ! You see, to be highly educated , to have a M. D. or a PHD if you are that intelligent, is no guarantee that you are a highly "EDUCATED' person in the total sense . More often than not a poor and uneducated peasant have better manners than a brilliant mind who is blinded by his/her sense of " SUPERIORITY ' ... oh we poor humans will we ever learn how to be as perfect and as educated as such minds ! .... what a shame that you somehow don't know those unwritten ' rules ' and by calling me a fool ( not I mind a tiny bit ! ... I think it is fun to be call that:):) .... you just made a total ... whatever ! ... of yourself !
Bamia have a good day and it was delightful to know that you not only have humour, and plenty of it ! ..LOL..... but that you also know how to laugh at yourself .... Life is fascinatingly great Bamia ! .... and don't ever become bitter .... for it can make you look ... unfulfilled !
With Best Wishes .... indeed !
René Descartes
PS.: "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." Descartes