I'm not often moved to immediately write about a collection, but this one really inspired and entirely impressed me:
The livestream for the J. Mendel collection has just finished and, I have to say, it left me absolutely agasp.
The collection opened with coats with what I guess was tiny top-stitching in intricate patterns that created an incredible embossed effect. This pattern was continued throughout the collection, even in the furs, and most stunningly rendered in a sandy colour only on the back of a long, otherwise plain coat.
Amongst the other spectacles an entirely simple belted, black sheared fur coat that glistened like no silk-velvet can, literally took my breath away.
The show finished with incredibly frail beaded evening gowns in soft wintry colours.
Gilles Mendel blasted socialite furrier, Dennis Basso (who also showed today) and his More-Is-More lynx and chinchilla patchwork decadencies back into his marble fur vault with such refined understatement as I don't think I have ever seen in fur.
I hope Lagerfeld's Fendi can at least try and par this sort of modest hyper-luxury.
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