Androgyny
It’s about testing the boundaries of what an audience will accept and stirring reactions from those around. And lets face it, if it looks good on you, who cares if it’s men’s or women’s. I don’t have time to analyse it so much.Your pallet has been consistently moody, would you ever work in a bright colour palette?
Hard one… No. But what is bright? If it’s white then who knows…–Ben Pollitt, designer of Friedrich Gray
[Oyster Magazine]
“In 2003 René closed his shop after several successful years and founded the whole-sale company In Circus producing the label René Gurskov Men. The collections contain reversed classics and well-known items in [a] new disguise. Style wise [René] belongs to the European fashion scene adding a Danish sense of shape and function.”
I think that Hood By Air is perfectly represented by their definition of BANJEE:
“A term that describes a certain type of person who dresses in masculine, hyper-modern fashion for reasons which may include expressing power and being attractive…or unattractive.”
“I don’t have a definite design philosophy, I simply take my personal taste down to the clothes I design and hope people will identify with them, that is what makes me happy and moves me to keep on working. I hope my business can grow as much as possible, but I don’t want to turn this project into something very very commercial, I would love to keep the idea of exclusivity I always had, I hate it when you go to a party and here’s somone else dressed with the same clothes, that sucks!” [Dirrty Mag]