Garther Pugh-2011 Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter

 Gareth Pugh, born August 31, 1981, started his fashion career early.  At the early age of 14 he created costume designs for The National Youth Theatre in London.  In 2003, he graduated from Central Saint Martins with a degree in fashion.  Pugh interned with Rick Owens in Paris; whose influence is evident.  His first collection showed models wearing balloons to accentuate their joints.  That element, which has become a staple in his designs, landed him the cover of Dazed and Confused.  His popularity has continued to grow with each season.  He continually received critical acclaim and celebrity cliental.  Pugh now shows in Paris.  He has stayed true to his edgy goth/punk influence which he certainly picked up in the rebellious London Fashion scene.  Style.com describes Pugh as the "latest addition to a long tradition of fashion-as-performance-art that stretches back through Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, and Vivienne Westwood to the eighties club culture of Leigh Bowery."   He is known for nearly exclusively using black as his palette.  In addition to inventive tailoring and architecture inspired designs; he heavily utilizes leather.  He, through boundary-pushing design, reshapes the human body into a form that appears to be transhuman yet still recognizable.  

In addition to the elements he is known for, Pugh had a couple of surprises up his sleeve this time.  His Fall 2011 presentation was performed on an actual runway instead of his usual media of video.  The stand-alone collection showed his loyalty to his aesthetic and not the bothersome trend chasing that is too often seen with fashion collections from across the globe.  Fashion as an art form is increasingly hard to find, and Gareth reliable kept the excitement coming this season.  The collection featured a mix of structured head-to-toe leather and feather weight silks.  Zippers could be seen everywhere.  Pugh shocked the audience with, a career first, addition of color.  Near the end of the show there were pieces in vivid blue and gold.  He used intricately placed seams to build his highly structured futuristic gothic look.  He also used fur to luxuriously line capes.  Male models wore a variety of breast plates and flared pants.  Push’s trademarked geometric shapes started as square cut jackets and morphed into points.  He added hoods to dresses.   

-Chinese heritage influenced Gareth Pugh-

In China, the Lure of Patrimony (NY Times)
“When it comes to attracting China’s new wealth, the challenge for some of the world’s most iconic luxury brands is figuring out how to appeal to a consumer base that is constantly evolving and is, in many ways, very different from traditional markets in the West.”

Genius Gareth Pugh bring Qin Dynasty army style into 2011fall collection. 

The silhouette of the this over knee vest that inspired by ancient Chinese military protected guar, which was from 2000 years ago, Qin dynasty. Obviously, here handmade Golden metallic style that inspirited from the movie(“The 100 best films of 2007”, ) name call “ curse of the golden follower”, which story timing is related to the Qin dynasty.

 

Geometrical pattern, and open lower waist details that presented on Gareth Pugh collection.