Tag: clothing

Challenging the boundaries of conventional design, Herschel Supply presents the Studio Collection for Spring 2016. Clean lines and innovative water-resistant materials form the contemporary aesthetic of this two-tiered offering, which is engineered for urban exploration.

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.

Voluptuous: A word seldom heard in men’s wear, but a trenchant summation for a mesmerizing fall collection from Rick Owens, who provided the descriptor backstage. Thanks, Rick!

Walter Van Beirendonck is a Belgian fashion designer. He graduated in 1980 from the Royal Arts Academy in Antwerp. Together with Dirk Van Saene, Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Marina Yee and Dirk Bikkembergs they became known as the Antwerp Six.

If Stefano Pilati’s Ermenegildo Zegna Couture collection wholeheartedly embraced that suffix, with all its implied unattainable preciousness, brother line Z Zegna was focused on the urban and the accessible for Fall.

Fashion shouldn’t be about setting, nor set dressing. Nevertheless, Trussardi’s adoptive home of the Palazzo Brera—a storied Milanese mansion designed by Giuseppe Piermarini—is pretty impressive.