If your fiscally-induced transition from starving artist to the professional services industry via a mid-level accounting job requires you to chop off your hard-earned top knot, Loris Diran’s latest collection will allow you to do so without abandoning your street cred.
For one of the first shows to kick-off New York Men’s Fashion Week, the hipsters flocked to Midtown’s DiMenna Center to view the designer’s offering for fall, which played out like a mash-up of athletic-inspired ready-to-wear separates.
Aptly named “Blurred Vision”, there was nothing opaque about Diran’s range of edgy and sharp looks, which featured military details peppered across fabrics ranging from neoprene, jacquard and graphic wool double knits, to tweed and technical performance nylon.
Inspired by the idea of broken patterns reflecting a sense of “vague memories and distant dreams”, it’s highly likely that upon donning the designer’s brown and navy vanishing check tweed military jacket and matching paratrooper pants on day one of your new bean-counter gig, your vision for life as a rock star are sure to be in ruins.
A standout look featured a patterned blue wool double-knit jacket worn over a printed cashmere crew neck sweater, teamed with a pair of matching low-rise jogger pants and sharp grey and black brogues. Adding to the street-style vibe was an olive draped infinity scarf sweater, worn with black wool jacquard slim pants and black Wall Street-ready flats.
Also key was a brown, pixelated tweed ammo vest, worn over a camel cashmere raglan pullover and teamed with matching cuffed pants and a brown Chelsea boot – a look capable of being hipsterized for the street via the addition of red sneaker boots, deep green neoprene jacket or a hooded sweater coat.
Certain to be worn by the show’s attendees and dapper New York gents come fall, the collection traversed seamlessly between sportswear pieces and boardroom-friendly separates via a series of slim, defined silhouettes and a palette of cameo navy, browns and deep olives and greens.
While our aforementioned reluctant white-collar inductee might be still coming to turns with shaving off his beard foliage, there’s little-to-zero math homework required to declare the outcome of Diran’s F/W 16 audit as landing firmly in the black.
