Dirty Glam by James Francis Millar - An exceptional talent from London

Usually, articles about James Francis Millar start with the statement: “Age is not important to be a great fashion artist”. This should be flattering.
In my Opinion, that statement is kind of  rash and flippant. It refers only to the aspect of talent. Supposed to deal with a exceptional talent  like Millar, from my point of view, age  plays a decisive role in design.

Looking at the two models that present both oversized knit-sweaters and  shine-through shirts and sequined dresses in a riant, jaunty implicitness it becomes apparent for whom the collection has been designed.
The ideal wearer of James Francis Millars fashion is member of a generation that lives the blurring of gender roles, that inhaled that educated middle-class insouciance by breast milk, a generation where everything is possible and anymore is allowed. Where the youth lasts to the 40es and where the hedonistic love of excess is as present as the pleasure for playing the gallery and profiling.

For naturally, with 25 years London-based, Central Saint Martins educated James Francis Millar is part of the generation of young grownups that are searching for independent and self-determinded forms of life and expression in an urban surrounding. How else could he be able to pick up and exaggerate the fashion tendencies of the subcultural club-milieu in such a natural, non-exerted way. The rompy exuberance of James Francis Millar´s collection, that apparently effortless connects vibrant prints with traditional knit, that adds up traditional and unconventional materials to a sophisticated composition of optimistic naivety, can only evolve with such an  easiness and implicitness if the designer himself knows and lives that generation-specific attitudes.

With only 25 years, James Francis Millar is an outstanding fashion designer who not only mixes elements of modern club culture with the seventies rock glam style in an intuitional way, but also a designer who draws the bow from the early eighties to the art DEco era, from artwork by Jean Paul-Goude to Janine Janet and consolidates the melange of inspiration in fabulous idiosyncratic garments.
James Francis Millar is an outstanding talent and i complement the statement: age is not important to be a great fashion artist”sometimes, a certain age is necessary to unaffected design fashion that mirrors the main attitudes of a generation”.
Chapeau Monsieur Millar.

Photos via James Francis Millar

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