There is something of a fine line between “art” as well as “art project,” as well as during the Burberry autumn 2014 runway show, the brand’s hand-painted purses didn’t frequently stay on the right side of it. In a post-show interview with Vogue, brand head Christopher Bailey spoke of having studio staffers paint the bags, as well as the results generally appeared like the product of hands whose main task is not, in fact, painting things. A “back-to-basics” approach was clearly Bailey’s intent, however unfortunately it doesn’t produce bags that look especially elegant or expensive.
The collection likewise includes some bags with big swaths of native American blanket-print textiles, which are light years more advanced than their painted counterparts, in addition to some bags, all in the exact same lengthened domed shape, which function velvet embellishments. The vast majority of the bags were painted with oversized, amateurish flowers as well as leaves, though, as well as although normally I like painted bags, I desire Burberry, with its almost infinite resources as well as influence, had tapped actual artists to do the painting like Prada frequently does; the results would have almost assuredly been no less earthy however light years more elegant.
[Images via Vogue.com]