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PFW: PAUL SMITH Spring Summer 2023 Collection

For the Spring Summer 2023 Collection, Paul Smith revisits the 1980s art scene

©Paul Smith

British fashion designer PAUL SMITH presented the Spring Summer 2023 Menswear Collection, on June 24th, as a part of the recently finished Paris Fashion Week. For the collection, Smith was inspired by a day spent gallery hopping around London on the hottest day of the year. This season’s looks revisit the 1980s art scene to offer a refined take on classic menswear silhouettes. The looks introduce an effortless retelling of traditional formal codes, reinterpreting classic 1980s tailoring and shirting with exaggerated proportions and a soft, tonal colour palette.

SPRING SUMMER 2023 COLLECTIONS

©Paul Smith
©Paul Smith

The air is overwhelmingly relaxed. Silhouettes are intentionally styled to amplify contrasts, with billowing outerwear, louche pooling trousers and oversized, untucked shirts juxtaposed with boxy vests, wide shorts and cropped trousers. The mainstay of formal menswear – the three-piece suit – is reinvented in a casual spirit in multiple combinations, including with a waistcoat-inspired vest, oversized shorts, belted jacket and car coat, while deliberate, considered layering throughout reinforces a sense of nonchalance and modernity. Traditional shirting stripes – typically seen on vintage Oxford shirts – are subverted, mixed and matched and used across sportswear and technical styles, including an oversized pullover windbreaker, work jacket, collarless shirt and knitted vests. The footwear, too, reinforces the contrast between traditional elegance and sporty modernity, with high-shine cut-out leather loafers set atop a lightweight sole and classic crossover sandals on hiking-inspired commando soles. – from Paul Smith

©Paul Smith
©Paul Smith

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