The Rag & Bone Spring16
The New York Fashion Week Men’s presented Rag & Bone Spring collection 2016. Presentation pick up sport that sees urban aerialists turning the city into a stage for gravity-defying jumps and flips the latest man’s wear collection splayed out on the apparel.
The Rag & Bone clothes inspired by the parkourists were shown static, on stick-figure mannequins. Behind Rag & Bone hiding two amazing talented designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright. The collection emphasized flyweight materials, like ultrafine nylon or the perforated mesh used, for instance, in a button-down, or ones that had a sporty give, like the heavy-duty jersey found in an overcoat.
There were lots of straps and flaps meant to pick up a breeze and underline the sense of motion. The tapered trouser silhouette here was another nod to parkour, the last thing a guy running up a wall needs is to trip over his own pant leg. For the record, Neville and Wainwright made military elements and savvy deployment of technical materials was signature Rag & Bone, uncut by external influence.
