Over the past four days, designers have gathered in lower Manhattan for the city’s first official fashion week dedicated to menswear. The designs, which are typically woven into women’s collections at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week or showcased at private events, garnered their own spotlight this summer as a slew of editors, buyers, bloggers and fashionistos descended on their showcases. The Daily Beast brings a preview of what’s to come from next year’s trends.
Here, Public School presents their looks in a criminal-style line up.
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Menswear blogger Asiff Maloney is seen at Skylight Clarkson Sq outside of the Michael Bastian show. He's wearing a Bleeker And Mercer top, H&M shirt, Topman jeans, Gap hat and an Aldo watch.
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Jorge Rios is seen outside the Tommy Hilfiger. He's wearing a Tiger of Sweden suit and a Marc Jacobs bag with Made in Mexico shoes.
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As with seasons past, Rag & Bone ditched the conventional runway: the outfits were fashioned onto metal pole mannequins which depicted various active movements, while photographs of models wearing the clothes and jumping through warehouses were displayed on the wall.
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Menswear influencer and designer Dejon Marquis is seen outside the Tommy Hilfiger show. He's wearing a RNT23 blazer, Forever 21 pants, Hugo Boss shoes and a Dejon Marquis bag.
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Perry Ellis's designer Michael Maccari played big with texture and patterns. "I was inspired by guys coming to and from the gym," he told The Daily Beast backstage. "It can be a compression top or an open shirt with a blazer, or even a jacket, thrown over the shoulder. A pair of gym shorts with a bag and a backwards hat. And sort of how that starts to become a look and what guys are doing every day. The designs can go anywhere from dressy to performance and function, which I think is just really important in menswear today."
Celebrity stylist Jose Cordero is seen outside the Carlos Campos show wearing a KTZ top, Chapter pants, Scoop shoes and a vintage hat.
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The design duo at Duckie Brown stuck to their reputation for ambiguous designs, with a big play on menswear. "Every single piece that we showed is a really, really simple meanswear piece," co-founder and designer Steven Cox told The Daily Beast. "The open look with a pair of sweatpants and a white tee shirt, for instance, we created an almost optical illusion where it's like suddenly you do a white tee shirt in organza and it becomes something completely different. Then, there are Harrington jackets with narrow trousers that are oversized and cinched tight at the waist. It's really basic meanswear, but it looks really fucked around with and skewed slightly."
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Blogger Danny Chung is seen outside the Tommy Hilfiger show wearing a Gap jumpsuit.
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