Rag & Bone Pre-Fall 2012

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Marcus Wainwright and David Neville shot their new lookbook images in front of the door to their Meatpacking District studio. It was a good metaphor for what the season means to them. "No themes for pre-fall; it's just clothes for how our girl really dresses," Wainwright said. And boots, and tie-dyed scarves, and grommeted belts and bracelets. Rag & Bone, as Neville added, "has become a lifestyle brand." It's a lifestyle with a call for leather, for cool tailoring, and, in keeping with their breakout Spring collection and their best-selling jeans, for color.

The little leather jacket is a key piece no matter the season. It turned up as a red bomber and as a black motorcycle jacket. The former was worn with drop-crotch shorts and the latter was paired with a tie-dyed, long, pleated chiffon skirt, both of which offered a clue about the ethnic, Indian influences of the Fall collection they'll show in February. OK, so maybe there was a hint of a theme here. Blazers, too, are absolutely de rigueur for the brand, and this season they made them new by adding English military details like the curving seams of tailcoats or contrast bindings. Most of the dresses had a draped, sarilike look, but a structured style in red and blue striped jute linen deserves a callout; it looked particularly adorable with a matching schoolboy blazer.

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[isa.b.elle.]

some single pieces are nice but overall it's nothing exciting.
btw the collection is now avaible for pre-order at modaoperandi

 

[Selfportraitgrl]

Ugh... I love rag & bone.

 

[valliaddict]

They are one the best when it comes to wearability. If I was a woman, I would own half of this collection

 

[liberty33r1b]

doesn't appeal to me at all....

 

[LagerfeldBoy]

It's all very wearable and nice, but I feel the styling compensates for such uninteresting individual pieces. I do, however, like the last look with the maxi skirt.

 

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by Chioma Nnadi​

Last season Rag & Bone took a trip out to the Nevada desert, to the psychedelic rave extravaganza known as Burning Man. For designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright, pre-fall is less about thematic journeys than it is about real day-to-day living, and their focus is on building out classics that the Rag & Bone girl has come to rely on year-round. Those key pieces include sharply tailored blazers, utility vests, and a sturdy shoe: Their best-selling Newbury boot, for example, comes in a fire-engine shade of red this season, and you can credit that vibrant hue to a recent field trip to Rajasthan, India. “I took over 2,000 pictures while we were there,” said Wainwright, who spent part of his childhood in nearby Bangladesh. “We went vintage shopping to the markets as well as the obvious places like the Taj Mahal, and the colors were impressive across the board.” References to their travels could be found in the styling, too, like the addition of knotted turbans; a more fully realized vision of their adventure, said the duo, is in the cards for fall.

Ethnic influences aside, Rag & Bone are unlikely to ever stray too far from the label’s core. And if the structured herringbone jackets and sari-style layering are anything to judge by, then the direction they’re going in won’t be an escape to India as much as it will be about importing a few Eastern ideas to the city. As the brand moves beyond U.S. borders, and across the pond to Europe with a new store opening in London, they will need to keep in step with their woman. To know what a cool girl wants, you need to be a good listener, and clearly Neville and Wainwright are taking notes.

-vogue​