There are some (rare) instances during the collections when, after the applause and the bows and the door-dashing, you think, simply: That was a good show. The clothes needn’t have raised the bar conceptually; they just had to adhere solidly to what their designers believe in, what those designers champion. And that’s why Rag & Bone’s Fall (-ish, more on this in a moment) men’s lineup, which was shown alongside womenswear tonight, was one such occasion.
How do you get guys to re-buy the classics? That, in a nutshell, was the question posed by Tommy Hilfiger to his team as they brainstormed this season’s Hilfiger Edition menswear collection.
Looking back at August Sander’s photos from pre-Nazi Germany—Instagrams from eternity—is poignant and urgent: His subjects appear as right-here, right-now human as you or I, just stranded in a different, turbulent age. Yet only generations divide us. And times change fast. Christophe Lemaire has already cited Sander this season, as have others: Today Mihara Yasuhiro stepped deeply into the territory of past lives not so different from ours and dug up a gorgeous but kind of sad collection of clothing from it.