PREPPY MEETS MOD, GANT BY MICHAEL BASTIAN

Yesterday, Michael Bastian presented his GANT by Michael Bastian FW 2012 collection during NYFW. This preppy college dude who gets inspired by the Mod scene of the 60s meets a new friend the rocker and Boxer, this in a nutshell the story behind the collection. Look at the great colorful outerwear pieces and the whole collection is really Bastian styled, slim fit cargo pants, widespread shirts, shaggy dog sweaters, perfectly fitted blazers etc. It's a putty that the backdrop in the pictures take way a lot from the colors of the collection.........Next time white back drops please!!!

GANT BY MICHAEL BASTIAN FALL 2012 SNEAK PEEK

GQ brings us the inspiration of the designers for Fall 2012.

"The fall 2012 season is based on my personal memories and experiences in Boston when I went to college there. Boston is a preppy city, and I was a very preppy business school student. But back in the 80's there was this amazing mod scene going on, and me and a lot of my college friends really got into it. Mod and preppy overlap more than one would think, and it ended up in a very collegiate look, but with a cool edge mixed in there." - Michael Bastian (image from the F/W 2012 collection of Gant by Michael Bastian)

MODS - BRITMANIA

 

 

 

In 1979 a movie by Franc Roddam produced by the Who becomes a cult, representing a phenomenon that is the symbol of the made in England of the Sixties. The movie was Quadrophenia (as the 1973 Who album) and at that time it was the comeback of the Mod culture, a term that is short for "modernist", initially used to define fans of modern jazz dressed in an elegant and sober way. The Mods started in the Fifties in London a young working class decides to create music, but it's the attitude and style that make the British phenomenon grow.  Mods identified by the famous symbol of blue, red and white circles, logo of the Royal Air Force. The music of The Who, Small Faces, The Birds, and The Kinks, driving on their Vespa scooters equipped with the most extravagant mirrors. The film is a journey back in time to the fashion of the era, with fur parkas, polo shirts, trousers model Sta-prest (stay pressed) by Levi's, Gauloises cigarettes and partying until the early hours. So time to put on your Clark Desert Boots, your Fred Perry Polo and your army green Parka and meet me in the city.