Thom Browne
Designer: Thom Browne

• “A game changer for the designer and for this fashion season, which has seen a lot of menswear-inspired looks, but none as original as this. As the crowd filed out, more than one person could be heard comparing Browne to another visionary, Alexander McQueen.” [All The Rage/Los Angeles Times]
• “No one has to worry that Browne is going mainstream. … As soon as guests walked into a Chelsea loft, they knew they were seeing something unusual: Blindfolded male models with their hands and feet tied in blood-red strips of fabric lay on metal beds alongside the catwalk. Scattered around the scene were full-size evergreen trees and faux snow, and the music sounded as if it were being played in a haunted cathedral. And when the guests were leaving, they were buzzing that they’d seen the show closest to couture that New York has offered in many years.” [AP]
• “While not exactly ready for stepping straight off the runway and onto Pennsylvania Avenue, the clothes demand your full attention–and interpretation.” [fashionologie]
• “Capitalizing on his Michelle Obama inaugural moment, Thom Browne grabbed the spotlight on Monday evening with a grand, jaw-dropping collection that was so ambitious in scale it seemed to be his bid for entrée into the pantheon of great designers.” [On The Runway/The New York Times]
• “It was an operatic kind of day. The Pope quit. It was the third anniversary of Alexander McQueen’s suicide. If Browne has always been determinedly, even defiantly, sui generis in his work, the outside world was tapping at his window today.” [Style.com]
• “He delivered with his usual theatrical runway presentation that showed off his construction skills with over-the top creations, which, while costumey to the nth degree, were at once romantic and slightly disturbing. … the commercial value was not always clear, the elaborate workmanship was impressive for what’s emerging as something of a Thom Browne moment.” [WWD]