{"id":1209,"date":"2010-05-23T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:27:29","slug":"pucci-and-missed-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"pucci and missed opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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the wrong:<\/strong> paralyzed by heritage<\/em><\/p>\n

designers stephan janson, julio espada, christian lacroix<\/a> and mathew williamson<\/a> all swung and missed. currently, poor peter dundas is still just looking for the bat. we are talking about a game of pucci<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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to many, pucci is a colorful retro-print house. i suspect that such a strong but narrow identity is doing more harm than good. no one dared to move it forward (like nicolas ghesquiere did with balanciaga<\/a>). no one managed to fake a history onto the company (like tom ford<\/a> did with gucci<\/a>). and, no one figured to just take it by the horns and move it the way she\/he see fits (like john galliano<\/a> did with dior<\/a>). everyone spent a little too much time with pucci\u2019s archive.<\/p>\n

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there were just too many missed opportunities, with the latest being the inkjet (or digital) fabric printing technology. the british fashion student first started using it for their thesis. with advances of bulk production capacity of the past few years, digital print appeared on runway of hussein chalayan<\/a> (depicting car crashes), alexander mcqueen<\/a> (extraordinary textural visual effect, as expected from him),\u00a0mary katrantzou<\/a> (bottling up the female body), etc. can you imagine the possibilities of applying this technology to the house of pucci? apparently, none of the passing designers could.<\/p>\n

they can\u2019t just keep slapping the pucci prints onto lingerie, cups, hats, etc. to be relevant today, pucci need to show a belief in something. if all pucci stands for are those tired old \u2018original\u2019 prints, then they should realize their market really only exists on ebay.\u00a0pucci, like china, should NOT be paralyzed by its heritage, its history and even its identity (be respectful of the character). turn the page!<\/p>\n

note:<\/strong> versace is fast becoming a pucci of our generation \u2013 increasing historic identity with decreasing relevancy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the wrong: paralyzed by heritage designers stephan janson, julio espada, christian lacroix and mathew williamson all swung and missed. currently, poor peter dundas is still just looking for the bat. we are talking about a game of pucci. to many, pucci is a colorful retro-print house. i suspect that such a strong but narrow identity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,87,92,84,67,88,26,35,91,89,90,85,86,66,71,93],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-wrong","tag-alexander-mcqueen","tag-balanciaga","tag-china","tag-christian-lacroix","tag-digital-printing","tag-dior","tag-gucci","tag-hussein-chalayan","tag-inkjet-fabric-printing","tag-john-galliano","tag-mary-katrantzou","tag-matthew-williamson","tag-nicolas-ghesquiere","tag-pucci","tag-tom-ford","tag-versace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pucci-at-work.jpg?fit=600%2C330&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pp6zn-jv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1375,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=1375","url_meta":{"origin":1209,"position":0},"title":"italian does it better","author":"deacon","date":"12 Nov 10","format":false,"excerpt":"the right: take initiative, even when you are at the top of the food chain for a designer, it is important to be able to see, feel and experience different cultures. yves saint laurent\u2019s pioneering spanish collection (1976), russian collection (1976) and chinese collection (1977) were good proofs of this.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the right"","block_context":{"text":"the right","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?cat=18"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/milan-3.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/milan-3.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/milan-3.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/milan-3.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":306,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=306","url_meta":{"origin":1209,"position":1},"title":"what’s wrong with this picture?","author":"deacon","date":"14 Jan 09","format":false,"excerpt":"these are the pre-fall collections of 2009.\u00a0and they are not from the same designer. so why do they look the same? if the labels fall off, you wouldn't know which hi-end fashion house to return them to! richard chai? nina ricci? ungaro? matthew williamson? or proenza\u00a0schouler? it used to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the wrong"","block_context":{"text":"the wrong","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?cat=19"},"img":{"alt_text":"dress-chai-t","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/dress-chai-t.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":693,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=693","url_meta":{"origin":1209,"position":2},"title":"the blog and the ambition of kathy horyn","author":"deacon","date":"10 Mar 09","format":false,"excerpt":"the right: being ambitious enough to push fashion forward relentlessly going to parsons right next to the byrant park more than a decade ago, my friend & classmate, somsack, and i never missed our\u00a0semiannual\u00a0chance to sneak into the new york shows. it's the time of the year that\u00a0awkward beauties roam\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the right"","block_context":{"text":"the right","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?cat=18"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1443,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=1443","url_meta":{"origin":1209,"position":3},"title":"co-incident 10?","author":"deacon","date":"3 Jun 12","format":false,"excerpt":"on the left, it is the burberry storefront in beijing. on the right it is a 'buebelly' storefront in shenzhen. really? 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