Take Your Virtual Seat at Men’s Fashion Week

Here at ELLE, we’re all about expanding our fashion sensibility, which sometimes means incorporating styles from menswear. This year, the Spring/Summer New York Men’s Fashion Week offered re-envisioned shapes and bright colors that are going to make you want to borrow from the boys.

Alessandro Trincone (above) kicked it off with genderless designs, detailed with sequins, tulle and ruffles. A nod towards old-school technology, creative director of Landlord, Ryohei Kawanishi, brought looks inspired by Windows 95, with blocks of color meant to recall open windows on a computer screen. Nick Graham took us to outer space with a celebratory collection for NASA’s 60th anniversary, paced out by an original song that featured vocals by Buzz Aldrin (AKA the second man on the moon). In-line with the space theme, Cadillac House— the collaborative hub for creators and innovators and one of the hosting venues for the week— displayed the 1959 Cadillac Cyclone concept vehicle inspired by the rocket and aviation designs of the 1950s and 1960s.

Kevin Lu

In the spirit of collaboration, Grungy Gentleman’s Jace Lipstein paired up with the NBA and MLB to show off athletic tailoring, while Willy Chavarria’s collaboration with Danish soccer brand Hummel offered social commentary, showing support to immigrants in America. Feng Chen Wang turned inward to explore what completes the self (our other ‘half’), with shirts draped on top of one another and layered jackets all intertwined to become one, and DYNE’s “Future Nomad” collection mixed love for the Pacific Northwest outdoors with an urban dystopia (see image above). On the brighter side, the British-born duo, William Watson and Vincent Oshin behind Death to Tennis, brought the summer vibes inspired by coastal English cities like Brighton. Creative expression shown through as Linder’s Kirk Millar included motifs from his great-great-grandmother’s scrapbooks and Robert Geller of Gustav von Aschenbach delivered an energy-packed show by casting New York street dancers in addition to models.

If you’re a visual learner, check out Kevin Lu’s (@SweatEngine) recap video here: