I’m aware designers do have to garner some funds to actually sustain themselves but resorting to a collaboration with an irritatingly conversative brand, the result of which appears forced and entirely dissimilar to the designer’s own unique aesthetic, is a step too far on the sell-out scale. For SS09, Simons showed severed tuxedos and now he’s rehashing Fred Perry classics in garish colours, which have been hailed as innovative due to the subtle difference of a loose weave.
He already has Jil Sander, isn’t that enough?
That said, I do quite like these Thom Browne-esque brilliantly blue pants.
Images from Men’s Style and Brandish
I don’t know if I’d say Raf is pimping himself out but all the collaborations he’s done in the past year have been just as lackluster. Those Dr Martens sandals for example.
loving the new design!
Blue is really speaking to me lately, especially in menswear, so fresh.