Day 2 of New York Fashion Week: Men’s kick started with Thom Browne’s spring 2016 collection which presented retro-Fifties shrunken tailored clothing silhouette. He introduced looks like a gray Chesterfield coats, shrunken blazers, cropped pants and skinny ties in a variety of traditional men’s wear staple fabrics that included windowpanes, microstripes, Prince of Wales and houndstooth.The Public School presentation included a classic bomber over an elongated pullover shirt and shorts tailored below the knee, a voluminous short-sleeve hooded jacket shirt wornwith pleated white pants. Timo Weiland lineup showed intarsia sweaters styled with a trouser short or a wide-leg pant with a slight flare, classic jacket in silk, pin-striped bomber jacket, a white Japanese denim jacket with a contrasting collar and a suede baseball jacket.
Robert Geller paid tribute to the North Sea with a romantic spring collection.A range of fluid silk and nylon trenches, lightly constructed topcoats and flowy blouses which were belted to look billowy were among the highlights. Nick Graham’soffering featured both a cropped and longer modern fit in a single-breasted construction, in variations of cotton and linen blends in a variety of playful mixtures such as microchecks, stripes and solid pastels. Duckie Brown by Steven Cox showed voluminous sack pants, sheer shirts and super oversize jackets, M1 bombers and flight jackets.
Donrad Duncan spring collection Engineered for Motion collection had fencing pants with tuxedo stripes and white nylon bombers with high necks, two-tone knit polos and button-up shirts. Raincoats were transparent in an effort to highlight the fused seams. Todd Snyder lineup offered up some cotton suits and sharp spring trenchcoats, faded tank tops and sweatshirts, a bomber blended with linen from his Champion line, and artisanal leather sandals from his Cole Haan association. Rochambeau by Laurence Chandler and Joshua Cooper presented a clean lineup focusing on the play of proportions. There were parkas, elongated shirts and joggers in technical fabrics, often shown in monochromatic whites, pale pinks, blues and tans.
Rag & Bone spring line offered bombers and lightweight nylon rucksacks, military-inspired parkas, cargo pants, variety of cotton twill track pants, cotton linen blazers and classic field jackets. Ovadia & Sons captured the energy, style and vibe of New York with its spring collection which included graphic T-shirts layered under long coats bomber jackets, coats and leather jackets and tailored shirts paired with slim-fit pants. N. Hoolywood by designer Daisuke Obana showcased monotone series of outfits incorporating sharply tailored overcoats and relaxed blazers, which steadily progressed into mackintoshes and synthetic raincoats atop asymmetric tees rendered in a palette of neutrals occasionally elevated with a shock of red.
