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Colourful tops and cardigans, sleek trouser suits and sportswear mixed with crisp tailoring at identity parade mock-ups featured in New York’s first fashion week dedicated to menswear.
More than 50 designers showcased their looks for next spring at the four-day event – New York Fashion Week: Men’s – a debut for the city which previously mixed menswear shows with the bigger and twice-yearly women’s catwalk runs.
New York-based designer duo Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow’s Public School opted for police line-ups to present their mostly black, white and dark blue spring-summer 2016 collection.
“You might sort of get the traditional images of what you would expect from a police line-up ... contextualising or marginalising a certain race or a certain group of people,” Dao-Yi said. “But we wanted to sort of break those notions up and put (in) like really well-dressed men and reinforce the idea that we’re all sort of the same when we’re lined up side by side.”
Standing in line-ups of five, models young and older, posed in tailored coats matched with shorts or in loose trousers topped with elongated sports jackets.
Among other designers, David Hart showed a colourful palette of suits and casual wear in summer colours, some accessorised with beads.
