Tim's Take
6 August 2020 • By Tim Blanks
BoF’s Editor-at-Large connects the dots between the designer’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection and a mesmerising 2006 meditation on ‘Taxi Driver’ anti-hero Travis Bickle, which probed the heart of America’s darkness.
Ready-to-Wear Autumn 2020
1 March 2020 • By Tim Blanks
His woman clearly meant business. Dominance and submission demand an organised mind.
7 October 2019 • By Tim Blanks
The designer's scalpel-sharp dissections made for spectacular reworkings of achingly familiar components.
25 June 2019 • By Tim Blanks
The clothes had an airiness, a freshness and an uncontrived nonchalance that he infused with a yearning for freedom.
3 March 2019 • By Tim Blanks
There was a quiet ingenuity at work, but the source material — houses dresses — had a utilitarian dullness that levelled rather than lifted the collection.
20 January 2019 • By Tim Blanks
Nothing reverberated with the shock of the new but the notion of creative circularity wouldn’t go amiss.
17 October 2018 • By Tim Blanks
The collection was appropriately rough and ragged but what registered most was its playfulness.
25 June 2018 • By Tim Blanks
The brand's latest collection had a innocent, boyish, summery edge, but there was an inescapable suggestion that, when the games stop, the shit gets real.
4 March 2018 • By Tim Blanks
The collection had a clear motive, but the designer needs to bring back the creativity.
30 September 2017 • By Tim Blanks
The show began in birdsong but evoked the often violent disruptions in the natural order that have come to preoccupy us in the past year.
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