CATWALKS (JACOBS, MCQUEEN, GALLIANO)

By comparing the catwalk shows by Jacobs, Mcqueen and Galliano, I believe I could found out the relationship between them.

2005 Fall Winter Alexander Mcqueen



2005 Fall Winter Marc Jacobs

Both Mcqueen and Jacobs uses sharp, and colorful colors in this collection. I don't think it is a conicidence, as Jacobs often use dull and dark color in his Fall Winter collection. Although they may discuss the color used in this collection, one thing that I would say, there is no one comparable as Jacobs when applying color scheme. As you can see that, Mcqueen would only use one hue, or monochromatic color scheme in his outfit. But Jacobs compliementary color scheme, achromatic color scheme, apart from using monochromatic color scheme alone.

2009 Spring Summer Alexander Mcqueen



2009 Spring Summer Christian Dior




2009 Spring Summer Marc Jacobs





In this collection, three of them also applied bright colors. Mcqueen applied his symmetric pattern and more color schemes are applied. You would find that the silouette used by Mcqueen is quite similar to that of Jacobs. And same as Jacobs, achromatic color scheme must be applied in his every collections. Actually, Galliano also applied bright and sharp colors in this collection. However, he again used monochromatic color scheme only, which is less comparable to Jacobs.


2009 Fall Winter Alexander Mcqueen




2009 Fall Winter Christian Dior





2009 Fall Winter Marc Jacobs





As Jacobs has said before, everyone in Fashion industry is affected by Martin Margiela. Martin Margiela is a person who likes to use BLACK, WHITE and GREY in his collection, and not only Jacobs do influenced by Martin Margiela, but also Mcqueen, in almost every collections of Mcqueen you would find that there are thousands of Achromatic color scheme, which is the same as Jacobs. Achromatic color scheme is appearing a must in Jacobs' collections.

When it comes to 2009 Fall Winter, which is a year suffering from recession, Jacobs and Galliano used many electric colors to against the economic downturn. Again, Galliano is not as well as Jacobs when applying color scheme, he used monochromatic color scheme only. But Jacobs used Complimentary color scheme and Analogous Color Scheme apart from Monochromatic Color Scheme.

It seems that Mcqueen is not following their tracks?? NO!! Mcqueen used RED color to against the recession. If the prediction that JACOBS and MCQUEEN are not only influenced by Martin Margiela, but also Rei Kawakubo. Mcqueen followed the tracks, as Japanese will also use red color apart from achromatic color.