Alastair Carr Left Pringle Of Scotland Today On A High

Naomi Mdudu — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:46:01 BST

Today's Pringle of Scotland show was bittersweet. When Alistair Carr presented his debut menswear collection for the house, it was met with mixed reviews. Last season saw him take a huge step in the right direction and today he really seemed to come into his own. The only downside is that today marked his final collection as the brand's creative director before they take it in-house. On a more positive note, it was definitely a strong exit and not a bad way to leave.

One of the biggest challenges that Carr has always faced is the brand's knitwear heritage. In the past he's seemed overwhelmed by it leading him to rely on the archive rather than reworking the classic styles and taking them forward. Today was the day that he finally did that. The elongated diamonds incorporated into stripes felt fresh and helped breathe life into the knits and the lightweight neutral toned styles worked well too. Rather than it just being about the knitwear, the tailoring was equally as strong especially on single breasted summer suits, colour blocked trousers and boxy jackets.

See the collection after the jump

Alistair Carr Has Stepped Down From Pringle Of Scotland

Naomi Mdudu — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:01:42 BST

Just as things were starting to go well at Pringle of Scotland, this morning WWD confirmed that Alistair Carr has stepped down from his role as design director. The move is surprising for many reasons. His collections have increasingly shown promise and have gone down relatively well with the critics and also, it's only be a little over a year that he took over the reigns from Claire Waight Keller.

Despite his efforts the brand continued to lose a lot of money after he arrived, resulting in the owners having to inject a whopping $16.5 million to save it. Now the design duties are going completely in-house and instead of showing big runway shows, their collections will be shown in intimate presentations. The brand's CEO Jean Fang told WWD that the decision was 'mutual' and confirmed that Carr won't leave straight away as he still has to finish of the brand's S/S13 menswear collection in London and resort 2013 collection in New York.

Are you sad to see him go?

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Alastair Carr Left Pringle Of Scotland Today On A High

Alistair Carr Has Stepped Down From Pringle Of Scotland