ROWING BLAZER LOOKBOOK FW 2018

Rowing Blazers Fall/Winter 2018 collection, is a combination of classic American collegiate style with street style influences

Inspired by vintage Ralph Lauren ads and the Japanese photography book “Take Ivy,” the lookbook brings us to downtown Manhattan and Princeton, where stiff impressions of “preppy” are given a relevant, youthful revival.

The collection includes graphic tees, rugby shirts inspired by Hockney and Mick Jagger, jackets and wide-leg trousers in wide-wale Italian corduroy and a custom-woven gun blue check, as well as collaborations with J. Press (inventor of the Shaggy Dog sweater).

Stay preppy my friend!

THE RETURN OF THE BALMACAAN COAT

This season is marked by the return of the Balmacaan Coat. The peacocks of the Pitti already showed them to us.

A balmacaan is a "loose, full overcoat with raglan sleeves, originally made of rough woolen cloth."

It is named after an estate near Inverness, Scotland, and is a single-breasted coat, often a raincoat. To decrease risk of water penetrating the coat, the number of seams is reduced by bringing the sleeve to the collar (raglan sleeves) rather than to the shoulder as usual. Since it was designed to keep the rain and wind out, the collar can be buttoned all the way up to the neck, and is usually made of tweed or gabardine.

ALL YOU NEED IS IVY - BEAMS PLUS FW 2018

The BEAMS+ AW 18/19 theme 'All you need is IVY' starts with '60s Ivy league (the elite schools on the east coast of America) students' lifestyles that hugely influenced Japanese youngsters and mixes the Ivy style of the '80s that was infused with a European essence, then applies a modern twist. This continuously evolving collection is based on tradition and true and tested aesthetics, implementing modern technology - comprising a range of black watch check suits, jacquard outerwear of patch worked tweed, wind-resistant award jackets, digitally-printed patchwork shirts and more.