He is one of the coolest designers of the moment. The other is one of the best-known English brands in the world. No, this is not the most burning news of the last few days that wants Italian Riccardo Tisci as the new creative director of Burberry, but a relationship that has been going on for a long time, to be exact seven years, between Raf Simons, designer for Calvin Klein, and Fred Perry, the British house that we all owned, at least once in our lifetime, the iconic polo shirt.
Together they created the men’s collection for this spring-summer, moving from contemporary street-style aesthetics, combining it with the more punk, irreverent and linked to sub-cultures. Simons himself, at the launch, tells how the capsule is very in tune with his personal style, the one that saw him emerge in the mid-nineties with the eponymous label: “When I started out, I focused on youth and subcultures, and Fred Perry was one of my many inspirations. ”
The proposals refer to a basic wardrobe, with the typical silhouette of the English brand, founded in 1952 by the tennis player Fred Perry, winner three times at Wimbledon, and include: polo shirts, t-shirts, pullovers, jackets, and slim cut trousers. Very Simons. The touch of the Belgian designer is, moreover, in futuristic tone graphics, emphasized by the adhesive tape effect on the collar and close to the famous seam of the Laurel Wreath logo, chosen as a symbol of victory and honor.
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