TRENDS
T New & Lingwood
“The Savile Row Effect is central this season when it comes to sartorial inspiration, ensuring garments are instantly useful and immediate wardrobe staples”
rends of course are important – more so seemingly in the womenswear sector. Here, shapes, colours and
patterns vacillate from novelty to inventive, chic to ridiculous. However, in the case of men’s trends, especially where Autumn is concerned, we have been recently witnessing a “build-on-build” phenomenon which only goes to prove the essential and refreshing stasis of the male wardrobe. Themes are revisited – trusted cuts, although slightly revisited but essentially the same and a delightful consistency when it comes to suiting fabrics, traditional patterns and weaves. “The Savile Row Effect” is central this season when it comes to sartorial inspiration, ensuring
garments are
instantly useful and immediate wardrobe staples. This Autumn there is a magnetic embrace of the English obsession with fine wools, slim and exaggerated lapels which float down the chest, standard black and white duo chrome and quite the opposite, surprisingly harmonic clashes of colour. Take the sensational “A Child of the
Jago” for example – a creation of Joe Corre (of one time Agent Provocateur fame) and the inspirational son of Dame Vivienne Westwood. Instantly proclaiming a Dandyesque look, with a slice of calculated danger – well, the company’s strap line is “Original Terrorist Clothing” – full of truth and irony. And when the ‘T’ word is used, it is in this case reminiscent of cheeky Victorian mudlarks, no-good mashers and swells and Dickensian street loungers, all done up in the finest threads. A historical set of themes is also to be found in many other collections too, from the always elegant blazers and coat choices of Ralph Lauren, redolent of 1920s New York country clubs, to the lounge lizard jazz bar feel of Gianni Versace. But Corre’s take seems uniquely exaggerated and especially racy, many outfits topped off by inflated Homburgs. A nod to British travel clothes can be
found at Richard James – whom many seek out for his well balanced windowpane checks and solid tweeds or Paul Smith’s smooth, more Continental feel in the suiting department. Although travel has R
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