Fashion 2026-2027

Givenchy has become one of the worst performing brands ever since Tisci left all the way back in 2017. Their RTW has been both creatively and commercially poor, especially their leather goods, and their Haute Couture shows are straight up paused indefinitely (although the service is still available).

I really like Sarah Burton, but she's not the right person to rescue Givenchy. She's very technically capable and her work is crisp and intricate, but Givenchy needs someone who knows how to showcase and develop its mythology as well. And Burton seems completely uninterested in that, just like she was at McQueen.

I know she's only been there since 2024 but she still hasn't tried to give Givenchy the kind of recognizable and exploitable motifs, codes, treatments, and iconography that houses like Dior and Chanel enjoy whenever they need a surefire cash cow.
 
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She’s technically very gifted, her problem is neither she or her clothes have any aura.
 
JANCELLED

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Jark said:
what's your take on this whole saga?
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It's a damn shame and the part that hurts the most is that this whole disaster was completely unnecessary. All it's fine is set any public tribute back even farther.

I'll always root for him because his talent and contributions are immense. Nothing will ever beat living through that period in fashion because he was absolutely the star.

If Anna Wintour wasn't so obsessed with trying to secure her legacy, she would have had the foresight to pick a better time.

Thanks to her he now has to go back to hiding his face. And let me tell you, that man was born to be on the stage/runway.
 
Also, fashion has been celebrating assholes for decades. Karl Lagerfeld was arguably the much bigger piece of shit, but there was no political context to amass an organized opposition against him. Which makes the disproportionate political gaslighting in Galliano's case really jarring and I think people are fed up being told to be offended on other people's behalf.
 
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They just caved under pressure from MET donors. I heard that one very important donor threatened to not give his collection to the MET after his death.

There was also an incident with Galliano shouting "Merry Christmas" to a woman speaking Hebrew just a few years ago, so it's debatable if his actions that got him cancelled in the first place were really only the result of him being drunk/on drugs. Tbh he does sound like a right dose, no matter how much of a genius he is.
 
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At the end of the day, the actual purpose of the event is to fundraise for the museum. Kim Kardashian turning up stitched into a historic sofa cushion is a means to that end but the celebrity sideshow is just that, a sideshow, and not all publicity is good publicity.

If your fundraising event is offensive to the people who you are raising funds from, then your event has been a failure. That should have been obvious but Anna Wintour and Galliano couldn't see past the opportunity to massage their own wounded egos.

Beyond that, there are people who work at the museum who have sounded the alarm about this. There are people whose job is to grow the collection, to manage public relations for the museum, who work on the ground who will be dealing with the fallout from Anna Wintour's ego trip. There will be people whose jobs is to do community outreach, for example, whose work will be made more challenging by the institution's biggest moment of the year being a celebration of a guy who gets pissed and shouts at random Jewish and Asian people on the street.
 
Debbie Jellinsky said:
There was also an incident with Galliano shouting "Merry Christmas" to a woman speaking Hebrew just a few years ago
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I was never able to find out if this was confirmed. It was corroborated by multiple named witnesses, but not established beyond dispute. And of course he's denied it.

I think what annoys me the most is that we're constantly expected to offer not just sympathy, but unquestioning submission. I have no difficulty recognizing genuine Jewish suffering or condemning Galliano's antisemitism. What rubs me the wrong way is when powerful donors, institutions and boycott campaigns are instrumentalizing that suffering to dictate to us what the 'acceptable response' must be. At that point it feels less like remembrance and much more like moral coercion. That's just my personal feeling.
 
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K.C. said:
Also, fashion has been celebrating assholes for decades. Karl Lagerfeld was arguably the much bigger piece of shit, but there was no political context to amass an organized opposition against him. Which makes the disproportionate political gaslighting in Galliano's case really jarring and I think people are fed up being told to be offended on other people's behalf.
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hmmm. but perhaps we're evolving to be more mindful of the hurt people have caused? having always celebrated assholes doesn't mean we always should.

I do wonder about whether public people who've been cancelled not being able to come back into their field without an asterisk makes it less likely that those people might actually go away, educate themselves and do the work. what's the incentive if you can never return to public life in the same way? we should strive for a society where people can self-correct. but it doesn't sound like Galliano necessarily has, so. (I'll happily be proven wrong about that, but the incident @Debbie Jellinsky mentions sounds ominous.)
 
Jark said:
having always celebrated assholes doesn't mean we always should.
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For sure. The 'race to the bottom'/'if he can get away with it then so can I' mentality is RIFE in America and it's incredibly harmful. I meant to say that the fashion industry has always been tone-deaf. If they could spend decades excusing Lagerfeld because he was brilliant, of course they'd try the same defense with Galliano.
 
This discussion is giving me flashbacks to 2009 when Lagerfeld had Claudia in blackface and yellowface.

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Let's face it, the whole CONCEPT of FASHION is VILE and the industry is full of VILE people.

Which I guess is what makes it UTTERLY FABULOUS.
 
CUNT!



“87-year-old Carolina Herrera attended the latest runway show of her brand wearing 10-centimeter-high shoes.”
 
stunning posture. being wealthy and glamorous really does buy you more years at the end
 


Donatella clapping, while Miuccia is absolutely not here for it.

 
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K.C. said:
What's so different about Jennifer?
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nothing. she looks incredible.



I really don't think there's a celeb on the planet whose maintenance work has been as subtle as Jen's. the genes are doing the heavy lifting.
 
Oh she's gorgeous and has a better wardrobe than 99% of other female celebs. I think it might be the camera quality cuz I'm so used to seeing celebs in perfect filters.
 
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