PROVIDING quite the contrast to the suited and booted looks of Dolce & Gabbana before it were the schoolboy short-and-blazer ensembles from Raf Simons at Jil Sander, next up on the menswear schedule for spring/summer 2012.
In dense knits and transparent capes, block-coloured panel-adornments and slicked back hair, these were texture-heavy designs – as tactile as they were the Simons side of quirky.
Experimental and inspired by the work of artist Mark Leckey, gone was last season’s wearable and safe colour blocked ensembles, to be replaced instead by an austere sense of style – with each look mostly in black, only to be punctuated by the aforementioned accessories.
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