During Paris Fashion Week‘s latest edition, fashion house Loewe presented its S/S 2020 Men’s Collection at the magnificently vaulted auditorium of the Maison de l’UNESCO. This time, creative director Jonathan Anderson created a runway setting featuring nine works of London-based artist Hilary Boyd, all shown on monitors mounted on vertical chrome columns and trolleys. The installation signals the plenty of cues which Boyd’s work has lent to Loewe‘s latest collection, in particular the shifting focus – fixed, fluid or fractured – combined with an emphasis on the physical apparatus of the installation to imbue her work with sculptural presence and subliminal eroticism. As such, the Loewe‘s S/S 2020 Men’s Collection invokes otherworldly perspectives of the day-to-day through a dream-like filter.
Long, flowing silhouettes are paired with a bold global artisanal element which is explicitly captures by fabrics such as the house’s signature oro ‘cashmere’ suede mingles, locally-woven textiles, hand-embroidered red and white cotton from Bangladesh, hand-dyed and woven indigo cloth from Burkina Faso, and ultrafine Japanese blue linen denim and punched cotton gauze. Complementing nautical archetypes from sailor’s shirts to washed silk dungarees, monochrome short suits in layers of poplin and voile meet airy knits and tanks in chevron or vertical stripes. The looks were paired with thatched moccasins, suede link sandals, boat shoes and lace-up boots. As for bags, Loewe‘s geometric Berlingo shoulder bag is introduced in a large size in suede, toile and calfskin, the Puzzle bag is tweaked in a deconstructed silhouette in supple smooth calf leather, and lastly, a new Shopper Backpack in soft napa calf leather. Shown here are ten looks from the collection that we particularly like. Location: Maison de l’UNESCO, 7 place de Fontenoy (Faubourg St.-Germain).
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