Sticking to true form, nothing is too out of the ordinary for Comme des Garçons SHIRT this season. Blending vivid plaid prints as always, the label pairs most of its bold shirting with relaxed solid trousers for a somewhat grounded look.
High Fashion magazine has a sweet spot for Comme des Garçons Homme Plus. Following fall’s feature, the magazine enlists stylist Tsuyoshi Noguchi to outfit Gerhard Freidl in the season’s latest. Maintaining a cool demeanor, Gerhard lets the clothes do the talking as he sits for a photo session with Yasutomo Ebisu.
Paris Fashion Week | Comme des Garçons Fall 2010
Rei Kawakubo allows the usual play on patterns to take a backseat this season as the Comme des Garçons man bundles up for a cold fall. Crafting a uniform winning look, wrinkled fabrics and corduroy make for the casual outing as suiting finds itself broken into oversize shorts layered with relaxed jackets and trousers. With the small exception of spontaneous bursts of color provided by accessories, the general color palette is subdued–showcasing a new modesty for the Comme des Garçons man.
Editorial – “Illusion” Comme des Garçons
Stylist Kazumi Horiguchi plays up Comme des Garçons’s androgynous quality when styling Wiktor Hansson for the August issue of High Fashion. Dressed in pieces from Comme des Garçons’s fall 2009 collection, Wiktor is aloof, yet photographer Yasutomo Ebisu still manages to capture him in an honest light.
Week in Review: Over-plaid?
Despite Milan and Paris setting the scene for a spate of forthcoming Spring 2010 collections, we became acquainted this past week with a varied array of releases available for Fall 2009. While some hit the mark more than others, the collections all seemed to be participating in a parade of plaid. The plaid, or tartan, pattern was all the rage last fall season, seen in almost every runway show – BryanBoy agreed – and we again just couldn’t escape it earlier this year in Milan. The latest Fall 2009 releases from such labels as the palindromic Kiryuyrik and Junya Watanabe’s self-titled eYe collection with Comme des Garçons continue the trend… is it time to acknowledge that plaid might be just a little overplayed?
Kiryuyrik Fall 2009
Designer Masakatsu Takayanagi – a former pattern maker at Yohji Yamamoto – seems to have made a game of incorporating almost every current movement in fashion in his latest release under Kiryuyrik. There are sheen fabrics, tassels and bondage-inspired strappings, leather boots, a touch of androgyny in the form of kilts and fur… It comes, then, as no surprise that, having seen plaid aplenty during the fall 2009 collections showcased earlier this year, Takayanagi is more than happy to hedge his bets and embrace the tartan trend.
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