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A New Wave of Female Designers Are Changing Menswear as We Know It
Grace Wales Bonner, Priya Ahluwalia, Emily Adams Bode, and Bianca Saunders are designing clothes that aren t just for men.
By Alison S. Cohn and Photographs by Emmanuel Sanchez-Monsalve; Styling by Milton Dixon III Apr 13, 2021 EMMANUEL SANCHEZ-MONSALVE With its tweeds, ties, pocket squares, and often arcane rules about everything from label shapes to the appropriate weight for shirt fabric, the world of menswear has been slow to embrace change. It wasn’t until 2017 that Emily Adams Bode became the first female designer to present a menswear collection at New York Fashion Week. She adhered to parts of the conventional male dress code while eschewing its fussiness, presenting tailored options made from upcycled quilts and finished
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And we haven’t even mentioned the clothes. For their inaugural collection, the designers wanted to go beyond the traditional definition of couture to consider how “ancient civilisations and tribes from northern China to South Africa had their own way of body adornment, informed by their values and religion,” says Panszczyk.
Some pieces of the collection only 14 looks in total featured tubular forms reminiscent of Mayan drawings, or perhaps swirling exoskeletons, wrapped in thousands of Swarovski crystals in an ombré pattern. In person, they are surprisingly soft to the touch. “It was such a challenge to figure out how to make the padding soft, because usually dense embroidery becomes very solid, like stone,” says Panszczyk. As a solution, hand- moulded foam was wrapped with crystals, but that left the problem of the crystals fanning out and leaving gaps along the curves. Adds Fogg: “There was so much math involved. Sometimes you can’t even know how the end produc