Tag: Collection of Style

Space camp. That was the theme of Donatella Versace’s Fall 2016 collection.

Shearling car coats usually register as gentlemanly, or retro. Thanks to a trim shape, the clipped fur sometimes dyed gleaming white, Neil Barrett occasionally telegraphed a youthful, graphic verve.

It was unclear what designer Rodolfo Paglialunga wanted to say in a collection that was full of leather separates and military style belts and straps on outerwear and tailoring.

Pitti Uomo guest designer Juun.J gave his spirited fall collection a futuristic spin, sending out a gang of daredevils clad in embossed, heavy leather, felted wool and lots of shearling rendered in his signature pumped-up volumes.

How strange that the passing of David Bowie should come as his aesthetic ghost is already haunting the Fall 2016 men’s runways. Katie Eary’s show, for instance, bore his unmistakable imprimatur—jiggy, Ziggy graphic pattern; flowing silk; and that newly coined fashionable notion of gender fluidity that’s thus far come bound up in the simple notion of a man wearing a woman’s blouse.

Jeremy Scott’s Moschino is polarizing, but undeniably entertaining. His brand of humor is Pop-ier, wackier, more sugary than Franco’s, but that’s not a negative: Scott is a designer who hits the bull’s eye of contemporary look-at-me preoccupations.