RUNWAY: Philipp Plein SS18

Philipp Plein is an unabashed maximalist. His collections are so ostentatious that it makes one wonder who over the age of 16 would actually want to wear these things? That being said, his runway shows are fun but one thinks that that's part of the ploy to make the audience, whether at the show or at home watching on their screens, forget that these clothes are so bland and without character even with their outrageous decorations. In the 50s, the decade in which this SS18 collection was based, the hazards of smoking were not very well known and the glorification of it on the runway is just another reason why this collection is a, as the kids say, 'hard pass'.