GARETH PUGH: SHINY, BLACK AND BRILLIANT

SHORT REVIEW: Fantastical and extreme, but with more breadth than usual.
LONG REVIEW Pugh’s vision is uncompromising. He never deviates from his signature scary futurism. His models with their faces painted deathly white with blue lips and eyebrows, looked like the Borg Collective on a big night out. In Pugh’s hands even humble haberdashery can be fashioned into something of wonder. He stitched strips of zippers into sculptural coats entirely from zippers and used shiny metal safety pins in the same way that other designer use sequins, to create a glittering surface for  a dress.  Sure using safety pins as upscale decoration has been done before but Pugh did it with real polish. A Pugh total look is a thing of wonder and this show had a great theatrical energy to it. But beyond the spectacle, many of the components - skinny black trousers, quilted coats and geometric jackets made from small triangles of leather are workable and wearable (if you like your clothes black and shiny). Pugh is slowly commercialising his vision and this collection proved that there’s more to him than Mad Max theatrics. CLAUDIA CROFT

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[shiva]

hi this is shiva from india i like ur whole collection it too creative so good i really ur staffs
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