The Dandy is still a dif­fi­cult look to pull off, but I have a feel­ing it will be more preva­lent on the run­way shortly.  Until then, Impasse 13 leads the pack.

Impasse 13 is a uni­sex line by Alexis Mabille. Mabille began his fash­ion jour­ney dis­sect­ing and rein­vent­ing old clothes before mov­ing on to cos­tume design­ing, which led him to an edu­ca­tion at Cham­bre Syn­di­cale de la Haute Cou­ture.  After­wards, he worked for sev­eral fash­ion houses such as Nina Ricci and Dior, before launch­ing his own line in 2005.

“It was at a very young age, while he was liv­ing in the French city of Lyon, that Alexis Mabille dis­cov­ered fash­ion. Inspired by wan­der­ing around muse­ums and his family’s attics, he became inter­ested in cut­ting up for­got­ten pet­ti­coats, pieces of lace and other knick-​​knacks and sewing them back together. He later took his first steps towards becom­ing a designer, when as a teenager he cre­ated the­atre and party cos­tumes, as well as out­fits for his friends and fam­ily. After receiv­ing his diploma from Paris’ Cham­bre Syn­di­cale de la Haute Cou­ture in 1997, he under­took appren­tice­ships at famed fash­ion houses Ungaro and Nina Ricci, before join­ing the team at Chris­t­ian Dior with whom he stayed for nine years. Dur­ing his time at Dior he cre­ated exquis­ite fine jew­ellery for John Gal­liano, as well as the Dior Homme line over­seen by Hedi Slimane.

2005 marked the launch of Alexis Mabille, a col­lec­tion of uni­sex ready-​​to-​​wear cloth­ing and TREIZEOR, an imag­i­na­tively revis­ited line of bow –ties, while con­tin­u­ing his col­lab­o­ra­tions with the worlds of cou­ture and beauty. Alexis invites us to delve into his highly per­sonal, friv­o­lous, dynamic, imag­i­na­tive and racy uni­verse, in order to dis­cover a fresh take on uni­sex fash­ion. One where the ele­ments of sophis­ti­ca­tion and fan­tasy are taken to new charis­matic and enthralling heights.”