A celebration of the relationship between art and fashion; a mix of prints, patterns, geometries, bright colors and fine fabrics in perfect harmony. Ph. Giovanni Squatriti, Styling Alessandro Calascibetta, model Tommy Marr wearing total look Paul Smith.

Sneakers, Paul Smith, s/s 2017.

Felicità e positività sono le sensazioni che trasmette la collezione p/e di Paul Smith, che, a detta del Sir stesso, si ispira alle notti passate alla fine degli anni 60 in Wardour Street a Londra, tra il The Flamingo Club e il Whiskey a Go Go. “Un periodo interessante, c’era parecchia espressione personale in giro”, commenta il designer. Una serie di capi e accessori contemporanei e semplici nel taglio, ravvivati da dettagli arcobaleno, simboli positivi, stampe e ricami. Così la semplice sneaker bassa in pelle diventa un inno alla pace e alla spensieratezza. A cura di Angelica Pianarosa, Foto Michele Gastl. 

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Do you like this gender? Gender – No Gender. Nothing to do with transvestism, transsexuality nor homosexuality. Is good to distinguish the social-cultural and scientific side from the fashion one. In the second case, gender is a term (sometimes used improperly) that describes a kind of style that mixes harmoniously masculine elements with feminine ones. The line between the two sexes becomes finer. One of the main trends of contemporary apparel, maybe thanks also to the physical similarities of today’s teenagers (boys are thinner with long hair and girls have their hair cut short and wear gladly men’s blazers, T-shirts and jeans, like in the Seventies), accompanies and enhances a phenomenon attributable to males’ desire of showing their fragility and females’ desire of imposing their strenght. There’s nothing wrong like there’s nothing right, there’s not to be proud nor disgusted. As in all things, everybody has the right to choose.

Facing the style. “A well-cut suit makes you look thinner, taller and sexier” word of sir Paul Smith, a real expert of menstyle. Menstyle, one word that contains the emanation of what a man would like to be and own. The Style. One Style. One, because it changes depending on the person. But, overall, a Universal Style exists, and it refers indeed to the suit, that can even modify and improve the corporeality better than a plastic surgeon and has the power of adding an appeal that is not possible to reach otherwise. Fashion trends are almost a negligible detail; there’s the year of the narrow lapels, then the year of the peaked lapels, like in the 40s: here the proportions come into play. If you are short, the width of the “peak” worsen the situation, for example. Tricks that men have learnt to consider. I don’t think we still need the columns that teach how to tie a tie. We’re much sharper than in the past. Or not? We are, come on.

Felpa, Paul Smith f/w 2016/17