CHAD PRESENTS TOMMY HILFIGER TAILORED

The Tommy Hilfiger Tailored collection is raising the bar for Tommy Hilfiger with fine tailoring and elevated sportswear. This season they introduce THFlex a stretch fabric used un their suiting, blazers, coats etc. with ambassador Rafael Nadal.

MEET ELEVENTY - LOOKBOOK SPRING 2016

Eleventy is an Italian brand which was launched in 2007 by Marco Baldassari, Paolo Zuntini and Andrea Scuderi. The company began with the mission of increasing the value of the Made in Italy brand on a worldwide scale and, through relentless effort and ceaseless enthusiasm in the pursuit of this objective, was able to create international brand recognition in a relatively short amount of time.

ROOTS BY BEAMS+ SPRING/SUMMER 2016

Modern basic wear” is a concept BEAMS PLUS has presented for a long period. Based on the American uniform culture that arose during America’s “golden era”, functions and timeless designs of the 4 categories, American traditional, Work, Sports and Military have become the basics of today’s clothing culture.

This season, BEAMS PLUS explores the fascination of each uniform category by respecting the original designs and backgrounds. The surprising modern updates in the BEAMS PLUS SS16 collection will become a new standard for the coming generation, but it will still be an extension of the progress which America has pursued in the old days.

Traditional summer suits made of elasticized COOLMAX®, an homage to the motorcycle jacket that Marlon Brando wore in the movie “The Wild One”, applicable travel wear using military wear functions with high adaptability to environmental change, and old fashioned comfortable sport’s wear.

SPECS are updated with the times, but the roots will always have an authentic American background. This season, BEAMS PLUS will feature the new interpretation of these “ROOTS”.

TOMMY DENIM - PEOPLE'S PLACE ORIGINALS SS16

Recently, I met Kevin Payne at the Tommy Hilfiger Showroom in Amsterdam. Kevin is the director of Graphics and Branding at Tommy Hilfiger, but next to that he is a vintage geek and that's where it all started. The People's Place Originals capsule collection pays homage to People's Place, the first store Tommy Hilfiger opened as a teenager along with two friends in his hometown of Elmira, New York in 1969. It became one of the coolest hangouts in this small town. The People's Place Originals collection was first offered in Spring 2015, the seasonal collections are sold alongside Hilfiger Denim's collections.

For the SS16 collection, Kevin took his inspiration from the skate and surf scene of the West Coast. The cool and relaxed vibe of California, with places like Venice Beach and Santa Monica in the 70's. He found some great items at the Rosebowl flea market which inspired him to do some heavy washes on T-shirts and combine Hawaii print shirts with Army Jackets. It's a small capsule which contains as said sun faded Hawaii shirts, Army Jackets with patches, sun bleached T-shirts with surf prints and some beautiful selvedge denims of Italian fabrics. The collection is rich of details with special made People's Place buttons, hangtags etc. and even the showroom breaths a vibe of Venice Beach with some great vintage furniture, skate-and surfboards placed everywhere.

Be patient because the Tommy Denim People's Place SS16 Collection will be in store as of Feb. 2016.

NIGEL CABOURN SPRING/SUMMER 2016

Nigel Cabourn can be described in one word: consistent. The British designer has been running his namesake label for nearly 50 years with no sign of slowing down.

As expected, Cabourn presented a British workwear-inspired collection with a certain sense of modernity that can only come from him. Yes, we do get a “heritage” vibe here, but there’s more going on. Extra baggy khaki trousers compliment long dresshirts with pockets. Did we mention overalls? About 30% of this collection is also a collaboration between Cabourn and Lybro, a 1920s Liverpool workwear brand recently revived by him. Even the signs used as props in this lookbook are genuine 1940s Lybro vintage advertisements — consistency at its best.