A friend asked me during our conversation- ‘What do you think about the strawberries?’

I answered with a big sigh- ‘They were delicate embroideries in the old days (mostly by Lesage, who else), what he’s offering now are strawberry batches. It looks cheap and too cantoon-y.’

The decision on using batches instead makes me wonder if it’s all due to the depressing economy weather or in fact cost cutting (which leads to lower retail price). I miss the early work of Pilati, they were more directional, abstract, challenging, a little devil may care, and yet still manage to scream YSL. Now, he’s to me, too calculated and try-hard. Has he become overly confident or got too much freedom after the successful FW08 show? I think he got carried away after that show. Where’s the joy? Elegance? Contagious emotion? The love to women? Search me …