NO MORE SUIT & TIE

Seen at the Pitti Uomo but the street style pics of New York Fashion Week (NYFW) confirm it.

 It's the end of an era...No more suit and tie! The T-shirt made it's move into formal wear. Once used by workers to keep them from sweating, made populair by James Dean in the movies is now a key piece in your wardrobe.

J.CREW LOOKBOOK FALL/WINTER 2017

The overriding idea for J.Crew's latest Fashion Week collection was to put a contemporary twist on their heritage. Frank Muytjens took some of the classics that date back to the '80s—like a rugby shirt and those woodland animals that pop up on ties and shirts that we call “critters”—and then combined them with some contemporary looks, like wide-leg pants, raw denim and technical athletic wear. It’s heritage rebooted. 

When it came to styling this modern J.Crew guy, Frank looked back to his own roots as a New Wave art school kid in early ‘80s Holland. “The whole idea behind these looks is to capture that moment when a young man knows he’ll have to wear a suit some day, and he’s all right with that, but he’s going to play around with it first,” Frank said. “He might wear a tuxedo shirt, but he’ll leave the cuffs undone.” It was all about toying with (and redefining) menswear codes: mixing high and low, traditional and irreverent. As Frank summed up the collection: “Young or old, creative or buttoned down, everyone can express their personality through what they wear and how they make it their own.” 

I just can add to this: Hat's off Frank

NEW YORK FASHION FALL/WINTER 2017 STREETSTYLE

Last week the streets of New York where dominated by models, bloggers, peacocks and wannabe's.

As London and Florence are know for their dressed up peacocks, the streets of New York are flogged with oversized streetwear, or rugged pieces. Lots of guys showed their most expensive hoody or the new trend the oversized puffer jacket.

J.CREW SPRING/SUMMER 2017

Already synonymous with classic, a word used generously by men’s designer Frank Muytjens at his presentation today, J.Crew reached a new level of American classicism for Spring. 

A nature-lover and country-living enthusiast, Muytjens is forever roaming atmospheric American landscapes in search of authentic Americana, whether a preppy enclave like Martha’s Vineyard or the grand vistas of Yellowstone National Park. Last season he was taken with the pastoral patina of a trove of old horse blankets he discovered. This season he found inspiration in the photographs of Mike Disfarmer, whose engaging portraits of rural Arkansans in the early 20th century are about as classic as it gets.

A lot of the offerings resulted from looking at archival pieces, Muytjens said, but from a new perspective. As it turns out, and this has no doubt been true throughout history, it takes quite an effort to achieve effortlessness. “You should see our rooftop,” he laughed, referring to his team’s experiments in sun-bleaching that informed a nicely faded pink crewneck sweater. Although, it was an extra-thick cable-knit cardigan next to it that stole the sweater show.