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In a recent blog "I Told You So" I posted some items from Vera Wang's Spring 2012 collection.
Well, the Daily Mail features her and some other designers and fashion elites attending a fundraiser to support the re-election of Barack Obama.
Solange Rowels, Beyonce's sister, was also at the event. She was representing her sister and their mother who designed an Obama t-shirt to sell as fundraiser for Obama's re-election. Many other prestigious entertainment people were there, and since Wang is now part of the Hollywood crowd, she was there too.
Solange was wearing one of the Wang gowns I posted in "I Told You So."
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She looks uncomfortable, and doesn't know how to cover herself up in this odd super-mini/maxi dress.
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Vogue editor Anna Wintour and designer Diane von Furstenberg were there. Wintour was well dressed, and does credit to her magazine. Furstenberg is unpredictable (I would have done away with that clumsy scarf), but she usually has style. But every time I see Wang's photo, she's in some dark, black/grey attire. Now, the excuse can be that designers don't need to be glamorous. But every single designer that I've studied seems to genuinely like clothes. Some dress eccentrically, like Galliano, others dressed with understated style, like Valentino, but they always put some style, idiosyncratic or conservative, to their own clothing.
So far, Vera Wang is the only designer who dresses in sacks of dark cloth. It's as though she doesn't like clothes, or doesn't really understand them. This "style" is slowly seeping into her designs. I think Wang was off the radar because she's clever at subtly copying other designers (yes I will use that word, she's not simply being inspired by other designers), and she's clever at marketing her products. But such strategy only lasts a while.
This latest collection is beginning to show us the dearth of her abilities.