Amy Schumer’s Le Cloud collection is bizarre

Who, we ask you, would live in a cold enough area to buy a puffer jacket, but then buy a cropped one? Such are the choices made by Amy Schumer’s Le Cloud.

Before we get to the judgment, we will compliment Amy Schumer on her desire to make clothes for a large range of women in her Le Cloud collection. As she said to the Today Show, she intends to eventually have sizes up to 40. That’s lovely! This now ends the positive portion.

The problem is that the clothes themselves aren’t the most fashionable or even accessible. In a world where women above a certain size already face additional surcharges on clothes, the price range here is suspect. As Today notes, the collection starts at $38; what the article does not point out is that the only $38 item is a beanie. A cami, however, will run you $48 and it escalates from there.

The whole collection basically looks like your standard loungewear, marked up to Saks Off 5th prices without a corresponding rise in quality. To add insult to injury, the items are available in extremely basic colors in fabrics that look like they’d be very clingy — or, at the very least, shiny. Now, shiny fabric can be done well. This collection is not an example of shiny fabric being done well.

And then we get to the most baffling, head-tilting, completely befuddling choice: Le Puffer Jacket. (It just killed me a little inside to even type that name out.) Puffer jackets, as the Culturess editorial staff discussed when we all saw this, are not particularly fashionable items so much as functional ones. The exception, of course, comes in the form of Canada Goose jackets, which, thanks to their prominent, recognizable patch, are something of a status symbol.

Not so with this puffer jacket, though, which is again rendered in that shiny material in a green that seems to be aiming for emerald and falling somewhere in the territory of hunter green (or just black), but is then a pullover that is also cropped.

A puffer jacket that doesn’t cover your rear is no puffer jacket, and it seems like no one will really be able to look or feel comfortable pulling the jacket over their head. Static cling, anyone? Hat hair is bad enough. Pullover puffer jacket hair has to be worse.

Again, our compliments to her on seeing a problem that does exist in the world of women’s fashion and deciding to do something about it (as well as donating to charity with each sale), but this seems to have been a poor choice in execution.

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