Our Legacy Menswear Autumn 2016

To see two such out-of-time and seemingly incompatible garments as a silk girdle/cummerbund (formal, evening, dandy, way-back) and a poly-something fleece zip-jacket (normative nineties from Lands' End to Boxfresh) sharing a rail in the same contemporary work/streetwear label’s showroom seems a curious thing. The connective tissue—the spiel—was delivered by cofounder Jockum Hallin: “We imagined we were on a set somewhere, or backstage. Somewhere where actors or performers are working and are wearing a mixture of their own civilian clothes and stage-clothes.” That's a sweet conceit, and you could see it expressed in the mix-and-mismatch styling here.