PARIS : Kris van Assche Tailors Sportswear
From Fashion Wire Daily
By Godfrey Deeny
Kris Van Assche had a packed out audience this Saturday for his spring-summer men’s collection, a healthy sign that his status as a young designer to watch is being taken seriously.
Any men’s magazine worthy of the name had an editor or stylist at show in the battered old rock concert venue of North Paris, Elysee Montmartre.
Wise, evidently, beyond his years, Kris’ second collection a clever extension from his first show, and like the debut its focus was the delicate act of balancing tailoring and sportswear.
Van Assche’s inspiration was Buenos Aires, and the almost religious ritual that toreros go through every time they get dressed. “It would be nice if more men took that time, that trouble, just a short quite moment to prepare themselves,” the designer opined to FWD backstage.
Opening with a few curly haired models in Bermuda pants styled like truncated sweatpants and dress shirts cut sportily, Van Assche set the tone for the controlled, street savvy chic he favors.
Classic shirts came with bullfighters epaulettes, jackets exited with built in pocket-handkerchiefs. But the heart of this collection were the dandy suits, cut with neat short jackets and fatigue style trousers. They did not all work – too often there was one strap, zip or tie too many. But when they did – like with a super micro hounds-tooth suit with patch pockets - one could only admire the dexterity and ability to make a new sort of tailoring.
Events ended with an accordionist playing an Argentine lament as a dozen models appeared in trim pants and tank tops, one of which bore the face of Carlos Gardel, that country’s greatest tango singer. Now, if it’s hard to imagine Gardel in some of this casual gear, his grandsons, if he left any, should grab the collection with both hands .
From Fashion Wire Daily
By Godfrey Deeny
Kris Van Assche had a packed out audience this Saturday for his spring-summer men’s collection, a healthy sign that his status as a young designer to watch is being taken seriously.
Any men’s magazine worthy of the name had an editor or stylist at show in the battered old rock concert venue of North Paris, Elysee Montmartre.
Wise, evidently, beyond his years, Kris’ second collection a clever extension from his first show, and like the debut its focus was the delicate act of balancing tailoring and sportswear.
Van Assche’s inspiration was Buenos Aires, and the almost religious ritual that toreros go through every time they get dressed. “It would be nice if more men took that time, that trouble, just a short quite moment to prepare themselves,” the designer opined to FWD backstage.
Opening with a few curly haired models in Bermuda pants styled like truncated sweatpants and dress shirts cut sportily, Van Assche set the tone for the controlled, street savvy chic he favors.
Classic shirts came with bullfighters epaulettes, jackets exited with built in pocket-handkerchiefs. But the heart of this collection were the dandy suits, cut with neat short jackets and fatigue style trousers. They did not all work – too often there was one strap, zip or tie too many. But when they did – like with a super micro hounds-tooth suit with patch pockets - one could only admire the dexterity and ability to make a new sort of tailoring.
Events ended with an accordionist playing an Argentine lament as a dozen models appeared in trim pants and tank tops, one of which bore the face of Carlos Gardel, that country’s greatest tango singer. Now, if it’s hard to imagine Gardel in some of this casual gear, his grandsons, if he left any, should grab the collection with both hands .
