We’re back kiddas! Picking up where we left off last Monday on V-day (Including our favorite pick, Agnes b; as our choice as the best menswear collection for Fall 2011). As we’ve stated previously, fashion week Fall 2011 is exploding everywhere left and right. So we have decided to cover and to inform all you dedicated and darling followers of ours with official coverage from the shows. Note: The picture selections you see are my picks exclusively. There is obviously much more in the collection itself. But as always, I only select the pieces that speak to me, the ones that make me feel something from an expressionist point of view.
Next up, Carlos Campos Men’s Fall 2011. According to fashion writer John Ortved…
“In a childhood that encompassed the entire nineteen-eighties and a great deal of the nineties, I somehow never managed to see Newsies. And thanks to Carlos Campos, now I never have to (if the long-rumored Broadway musical version of Newsies ever gets going, I know which designer they should consult for costumes).
Campos’s F/W 2011 inspiration reached back into his Latin American roots, seizing on the works of Pablo Neruda. The 1930’s urban look, gave us newsboy caps, leather bombers, pullovers, and militaristic nuances. Campos’s ode to common things included a mostly muted, earthy palette, “as if it’s been burnt or left to age,” says campos. This let the eye focus on his fine Italian wools and cottons, as well as the old-world tender loving care the designer brings to each piece.
While an artist doodled digital graffiti on to a projection, Campos’s boys relaxed on vintage bicycles or sat sulkily, their pleated cotton trousers rolled up, in case they needed to speed off, perhaps go to the office to pick up the afternoon edition. The palette backed up this depression-era feel: lots of hunter, moss, cognac, rust and grey. This is a dense collection, material-wise, but not impermeable. There’s warmth here, as well as a great deal of thought towards comfort. Campos is letting the restraint of his sartorial choices speak for itself. And in doing so, he’s making news.”
