Following on from my last blog post, I've just been informed (thanks Dil!) that Dazed & Confused magazine have shot some of Givenchy's spring summer 2012 birds of paradise collection for their new issue. Naturally I pounced onto the computer to check out the shoot, and was amazed to find a whole wealth of high end pieces all piled on top of each other in a story shot by Ben Toms.
The fab blog Tom and Lorenzo picked up on the shoot, but weren't all that enthused by it. I won't paraphrase, I'll directly quote them: "Where’s the styling here? Because “pile as much shit on one skinny kid as we can” is NOT a style philosophy worth considering, darlings." And I guess they do have a point.
The Givenchy picture DID do the clothes justice because you can see them, but then again this shot included the least amount of clothing. The rest were, as T&L point out, overloaded with pieces that ordinarily would look fab pared down.
I guess it's a case of personal preference. And the point of hiring a stylist is to get new perspectives on how clothes will work with other clothes AND what's more, appointing a stylist is always a risk really isn't it? Their work comes from a personal point of view. Just like writers!
Who do you side with. Tom & Lorenzo or Dazed & Confused?
