I love beautiful things which means I try and find beauty in everything and wherever I can. So when I say I think Henry Holland is the worst designer of the 21st century it was not without struggling to find beauty first.
His clothes are unimaginative, exaggerated, clumsy and really unstylistic. His debut collection dubbed 'fashion groupies' were a bunch of over-sized brightly coloured t-shirts with slogans regarding significant fashion industry individuals such as 'Do me daily Christopher Bailey, Cum again Christopher Kane, Do me in the Park Marc' and so on.
He is loved and supported by fashion bigwigs and his celebrity friends(Agyness Deyn, Alexa Chung, Kelly Osbourne, Daisy Lowe, Giles Deacon, Leigh Lezark, Geordon Nicol, Lovefoxx and countless others). It is particularly his friendship with model of the moment Agyness Deyn that sustains him to this day, they are business partners and of course, she is the face (cash cow) of the brand.
To my detriment he is only going from strength to strength, he has a deal with the jeans company - Levi 501 - to make even more t-shirts but this time it will have the naked drawings of designers instead of his profound slogans.
T- SHIRTS, really! I understand the whole anti-fashion thing going on but anti-fashion is just the belief that going against fashion trends is fashion.........therefore anti-fashion cannot really exist if the goal is to be rather redefine fashion. It just ends up being fashion.
To be fair he doesn't only make t-shirts, he also attempts to combine pieces of material that one would generally characterize as clothing but he fails, miserably
The whole Holland debacle reminds me of the fairy tale the emperor's new clothes, do you remember? For those of you that do not An emperor of a prosperous city who cares more about clothes than military pursuits or entertainment hires two swindlers who promise him the finest suit of clothes from the most beautiful cloth. This cloth, they tell him, is invisible to anyone who was either stupid or unfit for his position. The Emperor cannot see the (non-existent) cloth, but pretends that he can for fear of appearing stupid; his ministers do the same. When the swindlers report that the suit is finished, they dress him in mime. The Emperor then goes on a procession through the capital showing off his new "clothes". During the course of the procession, a small child cries out, "But he has nothing on!" The crowd realizes the child is telling the truth. The Emperor, however, holds his head high and continues the procession.In my analogy, the emperor represents all the people who wear his clothes, I think it is obvious who the swindlers are and I am the child crying out "But the clothes are crap!"
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ReplyDeleteerm i would just like to say that I think blue and yellow plaid is in & that naked celebrites are just what is needed on a tee-shirt. Anyone who cannot see that anti-fashion is the way of the future is clearly stuck in the past
ReplyDeleteplease...anti-fashion is just stupid. How can you be fashionable and anti-fashion at the same time? "Stuck in the past"? This whole rebel without a cause is so ancient history...nothing is new and rebelling against high fashion is pointless and a fad that really will come and go, probably come again and go again!
ReplyDelete@ bhookey - tell me which church to meet you but we need a pre-nup first
ReplyDelete@ fashionisto - maybe but I don't think so
@ venice - I couldn't have said it better myself