Menswear: Winning strategies for 2018
Apr 20, 2018 | By Emma Griffin
ALL OPULENT EARS
Paris: Rei Kawakubo showed a collection dripping with texture, pattern, and color. She draped damask overcoats and sport coats over lush, baggy corduroy trousers, and hung mariachi-style tail balls from blazer hems while attaching puffballs to oversized hoodies and shirts. True to her style, she showed unexpected materials like seersucker, and shot this cold weather collection through with spring-feeling pastel pinks, mints, and limoncello yellows, while making sure to add fall heft via heavy wool, plaid hunting coats. This show was most playful, and full of opulent materials, patterns and items, but ultimately found the perfect balance between carefree fun and cold weather responsibility. —Andrew Luecke
Silhouette: Textured grunge drape
Color: Jet black / Dusty pink / Dove grey / Mustard / Mint / Limoncello / Cardinal / Cranberry
Key Items: Zip-front cardigan / Collarless shirts / Cropped drop-crotch pants / Blaze orange / Carmel / Drop-hem bomber jacket / Overlong embroidered blazer / Damask overcoat / Plaid hunting coat
Materials: Corduroy / Wool damask / Cotton fleece / Woven wool / Seersucker
Print + Pattern: Stripes / Faire Isle intarsia / Windowpane check / Cloud graphic embroidery / Damask / Textured florals / Diamond grid
Details + Trim: Puffball attachments / Button-on coattails / Flamenco-style tail ball trim / Drawstrings
Accessories + Footwear: Leather driving and baseball caps with animal ears / Square-toed workboots / Pastel bowling shoes / Canvas trainers / Lug sole Chelsea boots
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