As a follow up to the previous post and for the Sunday comparison column, let's quickly look today at two jackets, one from Schiaparelli's Spring/Summer 2014 collection and one from Gianfranco Ferré's Autumn/Winter 2000 collection.
Schiap's collection featured, as you may remember, a tuxedo jacket that could be turned inside out to reveal frothy white silk ruffles (other versions of this jacket hid instead panels of ostrich feathers or further chiffon ruches).
Ferré's collection included a peplum jacket that featured a series of appliqued ruches under the peplum. Yes, you are right, the two designs look different, but again the principle or the main idea is the same. Besides, the androgynous mood in Schiap's design with the emphasis on the white shirt, may have also been lifted from Ferré's past collections.
There are actually a few young Italian designers who may be able to tell you interesting horror stories about being told, suggested and pushed by consultants and press officers to steal and copy ideas from the collections of other designers such as the late Gianfranco Ferré. Could this be the result of one of such "suggestions"?
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