Cathy Horyn at The New York Times <\/a>made the only legitimate argument for why focusing on Internet initiatives would cause a designer to turn out a less impressive collection:<\/p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Indeed, the many leather jackets and coats \u00e2\u20ac\u201d plain, studded and in gold snakeskin with stretch pants and skimpy dresses \u00e2\u20ac\u201d seemed primed for Web sales; much of the collection was to be offered for immediate sale and delivered in about two months. Hence a style that was seasonless rather than overtly spring.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
That makes perfect sense. So maybe Bailey and Burberry did get this one wrong, but you know what? The Internet is the future, and everyone in fashion cannot run and hide from it forever. Those that refuse to embrace it will likely end up irrelevant very soon. Therefore, we applaud Bailey and his team at Burberry for at least making an attempt to adapt to the times. After all, what good is a high quality, outstandingly creative collection if no one outside a few magazine editors knows about it or wants to buy the clothes from it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Critics were unimpressed with Burberry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Spring 2011 collection, which debuted in London this week. The general consensus is that designer Christopher Bailey has turned out a cheap, pass\u00c3\u00a9, biker-chic look that was worsened by the extremely spiky heels that several models had to remove before the end of the show and led to one model’s tumble on the catwalk. <\/p>\n
The fashion business being what it is (and by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what it is,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we mean obsessively terrified of the Internet and of the firm belief that if everyone ignores it, it will go away), the other general consensus is that Burberry produced a sub-par collection because the label was too focused on its online push and embrace of Internet business tools to create a high quality, inspired line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[112,3898,185,6846,58,1059,4537,1232,2691,85,2782,286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16062"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16065,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions\/16065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}