"Great Scott!!" in praise of Jeremy Scott for Moschino

I've long praised Jeremy Scott for being able to design a collection filled with clothes/accessories you hate and want to burn alongside the things you love and salivate over. Since we're all a little bi-polar, he's managed to exploit both sides.

HATE

LOVE 


So it's thrilling to see his latest collection for Moschino (see image below)!

As a brand rooted in making fun of fashion and itself, Moschino has always endeared itself to me. With full disclosure, I still have a t-shirt which showcases an Italian clown hugging a Moschino shopping bag.

But the luster of the brand has faded since its early days. Today, the brand seems to be a shadow of its original self. The original founder notoriously copied luxe brands in an over top way to mock the same fashion system that provided him with a living. Who else would create a Cheap and Chic line with handbags that advertise this unflattering message and have it sell? He did.

Perhaps, the brand is on its way to a long awaited comeback under Jeremy's guidance.  Hopefully he won't delve too far into the cartoonish way that he designs for himself or for Adidas, but more in a surrealist manner befitting of the Moschino brand.

In any case, he's making Moschino and fashion fun again. Mahalo.

YES
I'm excited about Jeremy's forthcoming Moschino for Men collection more than Kim Kardashian is about another televised and predictably doomed marriage. What? Too real?

NO
This is not for you if you're one of those people who take fashion and style TOO seriously.

MAYBE
You still have original Moschino pieces from the time when Franco was still designing. Hold on to them and never let them go…like a clown hugging a shopping bag.