Gareth Pugh

Spring/Summer 2012Ready-To-WearParis


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HE wasn’t wanting to say too much when we caught up with him before Fashion Week about what we could expect for spring/summer 2012 – other than it was more complex and specific than he has done before. And Gareth Pugh is usually pretty specific and complex when it comes to his clothes. They are elaborate in a conceptual way, and one that makes you think hard about how to wear them but by the end of it, we always seem to get our heads round it to some degree.
 
He opened the collection today with a film – a collaboration with long-term collaborator Ruth Hogben, with whom earlier in the year he worked with to create a special film for Pitti (see it here) – before launching into a series of caged constructions to house his models. In typical Pugh fashion they came in black and white and legs were encased in Stormtrooper boots of the same effect.

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Sitting somewhere between armour and a magnified insect’s silhouette, the cages zipped into place and even the nail polish matched the pattern it created. Funnel necks took on a new meaning – literally funnels, around the neck.
 
Lattice work moved the collection into more wearable realms as tops or hooded dresses before a series of monochromatic looks that merely echoed the shapes of those that opened stepped out – and as a result will have more shop floor appeal no doubt.
 
Four metallic looks at the end came as a mini dress, a splaying skirt variation, a billowy draped number, and a belted coat version – but being Gareth Pugh, he wasn’t going to give them to us just like that. Cue the pointed masks that made the models turn into alien characters. But a mask can easily be removed.

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