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The runway, the walk, the strut of confidence, the clothes of status, high fashion has dominated every aspect of trend setting in the world of fashion. Patterns, colors, silhouettes, and styles for this season are always set into the runway. High fashion trickles down into the wealthy, then to smaller influencers, into stores, and eventually into our hands. As I refresh my Vogue Runway page, I want to break down three brands and what there Ready to Wear Spring 2022 collections mean to me.
Starting off with Gucci. Never one of my favorites but I do applaud the brand for their curated and iconic Gucci look and feel. They have a distinct way in making all clothes look hyper stylish and uniquely classic. The label gets away with a lot, and especially this season's Ready to Wear for 2022 Spring. Mixing tan lace slips with tonic aqua blue tights, refining the new wave of timeless suits, fitting with a matching buttoner. Their collection feels Gucci as it always does but a lot more stylish and a lot less vintage. Gucci tends to be trapped in the past, recycling oversized sunglasses and flashy tatted belts. For some reason Gucci has always reminded me of a dark floral sofa wrapped in clear case plastic coverings. Not in a bad way, but the brands just have this external funk and passion behind their pieces that makes you feel like you don’t fit their vision before you can even decide if you do. Highlights of this collection contain, high knee garners and tights, bustier details, cowboy hats, satin, athletic streetwear, and lastly sleeves. All these looks remind me of dress up, the styling of each piece does not go together like pieces of puzzle, instead it's more like they were hot glued on top of one another. One look specifically that reminded me of the “dress up” theme of fashion in this slow is slide 58. Fuzzy white boa, pink slip midi dress, tights, pink Cinderella slippers, and well a tiara. The look seems like it has been styled by a 7 year old but in a good way. In an innovative, carefree, exclusively wrong which makes it the right kind of way. All in all I felt the show was alright, loved loved and loved the black star nipple patches in look 75 and long velvet bolo ties in look 78.
Shifting into Off White, right off the bat I am thinking about saddle wear. Horseback riding helmets and english style boot detailing encapsulate this theme visible. Since Virgil Abloh’s passing, the brand has been through a lot. The Off White team is under the heat induced pressure to not only stick to Abloh’s vision but to revolutionize it. Based off Vigirl’s last Ready to Wear collection of 2021 released in last July, I have felt took a lot of inspiration from those looks. What I found very interesting among this collection and Gucci is that both brands played with complimentary intentions with their tones. Pairing creams and neutrals with radical neons make for a very timeless color scheme. It feels modern and most definitely futuristic. Hinting back to the 60s, flowing with the theme of minimal futurism aesthetics. Cut outs, pattern gradients, baggy ankles, and strap details. Looking through this season for Off White, I feel like I would have not even recognized the brand as Off White without being told. This collection for me is leaning more into Jacquemus and Prada classic femininity. Not a fan of the horseback saddle wear but give me credit for trying. I am impressed by the juxtaposing neutral and neon tones and am obsessed with the futurism aesthetic. This modern theme in fashion is making room for hope after our long awaited release from isolation.
Lastly, The Attico. I am not familiar with The Attico, in fact I haven't even heard about the brand until upon this moment, scrolling through Vogue Runway, so consider my opinion a fresh impression. For this season's Ready to Wear, The Attico is giving me… subversive colors. Iridescent blues, sparkling purples, electric oranges and yellows. This collection is definitely hitting some sort of spectrum of light. There is a contrast among the looks, like I previously pointed out, mixing creams with vibrant “Look at Me” colors. It is tasteful and still futuristic. I would love to see some of the members in Euphoria rocking these looks. Especially slide number 8 in this collection, it’s divine. The look can be described by the following: alive. To start, we have these electric love looking glimmer, horoscopic, spacial light blue straight leg pants or jeans, toppled with a scrunchy glitter shimmery darker blue aqua tank top, no jewelry, no makeup, but instead a crochet beanie, that literally cherries the entire look into a smoking hot sundae ice cream. Obsessed and I love, truly. My only complaints about this campaign is that it is shot in some desert and I feel like that scene has been done over and over and over again in high fashion and it needs to be released. What I think would be better is shooting the models in like a mirrored box like in the Area spring collection a year ago. That would make this collection so much more liberating while still connecting back to the futurism theme. This brand is minimal, they pull it off, but sometimes I am still pining for more throughout their pieces. Overall I will be checking out The Attico for future fashion inspiration and styling technique, someone please send me their costume set designer because they are on point with a capital P.
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