PR: Ripping the Collections – Michael D

Posted on Sep 22, 2010 in Television

He didn’t always produce work that we responded well to, but Michael Drummond did always manage to catch our attention with some interesting ideas and innovative use of techniques. We don’t love (or even like) every piece of this collection but we love the feel of it – he took at least some of his inspiration from x-rays – and there are enough interesting things going on that we think he made whatever point he felt he needed to make. There’s definitely a market for his work and if we had any advice (and if he cared what it was) we’d tell him to never veer too far away from knitwear because he really excels at it. 

Let’s start the show.

Okay, right off the bat, we’re not loving it. We didn’t think this was at all a good look with which to start the show. We might like that top paired with something else, but that skirt is a bit much to take.

Now this, we love. It’s so young and art-student chic. We wouldn’t have predicted it but Michael D can turn out a pretty nice pair of pants. Those fit her quite well without being, to coin a term “Casanova-tight.” A little too loose in the hips, maybe. And while we don’t love the stain, we do love the sheer, fraying sweater.

Those shoes are distractingly bad, but the more we look at this the more we kind of like it. A boho look rendered in disco metallics. With the right styling, this could be pretty kicking.

We both agree this is awful.

Those shorts are bad; really bad. So bad, it’s a shame because they detract from the other pieces, which are kind of fab.

 

Don’t love this look. He’s not really bringing anything new to the table and it seems almost incongruous with the other looks, which have a lower key kind of urban chic feel to them.

Now see, we’re both in agreement that the print effect works really great here. This is a dramatic, head-turning look. It needs to be styled just right because it can look a little dreary and ominous.

Oh, and speaking of incongruous, this looks like it wandered in from Casanova’s collection. Totally coming out of left field. This really doesn’t belong with the other looks.

We realize this doesn’t look like much in the pictures but it moved beautifully and had a sexy, elegant simplicity to it that was very appealing.

It’s about a half and half. Half good and half bad. He got way too caught up in the metallics and some of that wrinkly deconstructed stuff could have been edited a bit. Plus a lot of the pieces weren’t styled to their best advantage. Still, there was something there in some of the pieces; a dreamy, moody sort of aesthetic that can be quite beautiful when its expressed well.

[Photo Credit: getty/wireimage]