Loose fit

Topman Design FW16
By Zak Maoui | Fashion | 9 January 2016
Photography Takanori Okuwaki

This season Topman Design’s love affair with the nineties endured. The collection took the form and influence of a dishevelled student, not afraid to wear torn pyjamas and their father’s oversized and under-loved beanie to lectures.

Shearling, crushed velvet, silk shirts and oversized bleached out denim all consciously reference the care-free art students of that nostalgic decade, worn beneath outerwear – dogtooth overcoats, over-sized jackets and over-dyed coats – deconstructed, torn and then reconstructed, with rips left in tact.

Standout pieces included a whole selection of flared and wide-legged trousers, printed velvet tracksuits and cropped shirts. Floppy, lacklustre and somewhat messy were key phrases here, and as baggy as Shaun Ryder et al intended.

GALLERYBackstage images from Topman Design FW16

GALLERYCatwalk images from Topman Design FW16





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