“The sonorous horror horns that announced the presentation suggested something wicked this way comes, and sure enough, Pugh mined the curious mother lode—Joan Crawford meets Predator—that he's established as his design signature. The exaggerated shoulder; the nipped waist; the articulated limbs, elbows, and shoulders projected to sci-fi points: all present and correct.”

“The English designer Gareth Pugh, showing for the first time on the big stage of Paris, is also designing for a future time, one when it will be necessary to wear clothes that are entirely white on the front side and black on the back, with scrolled collars or ridged fencing vests or pointy Megatron arms. The collection will someday look great in a museum, with the white and black clothes making for a walking Op Art exhibition. But, please, let’s wait another 20 years to revisit these ideas.”