Our Legacy Fall 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Uniforms of all sorts are a perennial reference for Our Legacy’s creative director Christopher Nying, who likes to make us look at familiar objects in new ways. For spring, he focused on reimagining the classic M15 jacket, but for fall, his remit is wider. Now he’s more interested in a dressed-up look, and he went about achieving it by making a sort of Richard Scarry–like inventory of sartorial stereotypes and then mixing them all together. A policeman’s blue shirt might be paired with suit pants; a tuxedo jacket with cargos. The idea, he wrote in the program notes, was “imagining a child’s idea of the uniform of a teacher, of a banker, a parent going to dinner, an office worker commuting.” He was also thinking about reactions to authority, like admiration and rebellion. Nying prefers a gentle kind of anarchy, and maybe this is what makes O.L. collections look so easy and directional at once. Many of the trends we clocked on the street during the menswear shows are present here. Besides the aforementioned cargo pants (O.L.’s come with suspenders), there are penny loafers, to which Nying’s added a lug sole. Here, the skirt to layer over trousers is an asymmetric pleated wrap with an unfinished hem, as if cut by a child.