Rag & Bone Fall/​Winter 2012 | New York Fashion Week

The Rugged Dandy–Approach­ing the fall/​winter 2012 sea­son, Rag & Bone design­ers David Neville and Mar­cus Wain­wright took hold of the dandy and roughed him up with a wild eye for the unkempt out­doors. Infil­trated by woodsy sen­ti­ments, fine tai­lor­ing took on a util­i­tar­ian pur­pose, jux­ta­posed with details of the mod­ern age. Lasered fab­ri­ca­tions and satin lin­ings joined care­fully placed leather inclu­sions for a notion of today’s designs. Mean­while, relaxed trousers as well as heavy coats of wool tied into a Lon­don roman­ti­cism that is indif­fer­ent to time. A sub­tle twist of menswear fun­da­men­tals, the col­lec­tion as a whole fueled a space for clas­sic ideas with a hint of exper­i­men­tal fod­der aimed at the season.

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Wilhelmina Fall/​Winter 2012 Show Package

Wil­helmina–Mas­ter­ing the art of the per­fectly main­tained men’s board, Wil­helmina lends New York Fash­ion Week unde­ni­able stars such as Clement Chaber­naud and Jon Kor­ta­jarena. Trea­sured amongst the ranks are famil­iar faces James Smith, Tay­lor Fuchs and Matthew Hitt as well as count­less oth­ers. In the new faces depart­ment, Wil­helmina charms no doubt with this season’s Givenchy star, Chris Moore and strik­ing up and com­ers like Tay­lor Cowan. Round­ing out their lineup with wel­comed mod­els such as Vladimir Ivanov and Reid Prebenda, Wil­helmina solid­i­fies a phe­nom­e­nal track record in the stars department.

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Behind the Scenes | Costume National Homme & Ermanno Scervino Fall/​Winter 2012

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Ports 1961 Fall/​Winter 2012 | Milan Fashion Week

Play­ing Shapes–Ports 1961 design­ers Fiona Cibani and Ian Hyl­ton pull together a metic­u­lous col­lec­tion focus­ing on sharp lines, con­struc­tion and vary­ing pro­por­tions. Cast in a somber gray palette, the label’s lead­ing man lives up to the clas­sic image of Sav­ille Row. Don­ning double-​​breasted suits and clad in out­er­wear, cut with a min­i­mal­ist hand, Ports 1961’s gen­tle­man embraces a smooth sea­son that plays tai­lored tra­di­tion against play­ful explo­ration. From nar­row, well-​​framed jack­ets to a final roundup of volu­mi­nous coats, Ports 1961 intro­duces a sea­son of func­tion and spon­tane­ity for a mod­est success.

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Moncler Gamme Bleu Fall/​Winter 2012 | Milan Fashion Week

The Art of Rac­ing–Brazil­ian race car dri­ver Ayr­ton Senna served as the muse of designer Thom Browne’s lat­est col­lec­tion for Mon­cler Gamme Bleu. Lend­ing his quirky cre­ations a new dimen­sion, yel­low, red and white dressed an enter­tain­ing wardrobe, fit for the spec­ta­tor. Start­ing the show with padded jump­suits and mov­ing towards shrunken tai­lored gar­ments, cheer­ful suit­ing sep­a­rates cham­pi­oned Browne’s race car dri­ver. Even­tu­ally arriv­ing at his sig­na­ture palette of gray and navy, volume-​​induced jack­ets, long coats as well as lay­ered cold-​​weather essen­tials com­pleted another sea­son of fun for the beloved designer.

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John Varvatos Fall/​Winter 2012 | Milan Fashion Week

Urban Rock–Designer John Var­vatos spins a tale of the streets and rock for the fall/​winter 2012 sea­son. Embody­ing a cer­tain harsh­ness in com­par­i­son to last season’s roman­tic laments, Var­vatos taps into an ele­ment of youth. Bring­ing together gar­ments in an almost reck­less fash­ion, the mood is relaxed and the results more excit­ing. While lace­less boots barely come to a close, over­size out­er­wear in var­i­ous hues of gray bring com­fort to knits as well as other pieces, tat­tered and stained. Fea­tur­ing a wardrobe that pos­sesses the poten­tial to be both tidy and fan­tas­ti­cally disheveled, John Var­vatos dis­misses the aspect of age for a col­lec­tion that evolves with a lit­tle smarts.

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