Paul Costelloe Man SS12 sees structured tailoring softened with
romance.
Inspiration comes from the conservative Edwardian styles mixed
with New Romantic and a nod to the 70s.
The show starts with a basic black, white and grey colour
palette muted with the cross hatched pattern.
70s style makes an entrance in a cross hatched 2 button jacket suit worn with a frilled
shirt. The muted greyish blue and crosshatched pattern of the shirt tone down
the 70s brashness.
A blazer (again cross hatched) with black ribbon piping
brings a preppy look but is given a romantic twist with frills peeping through the bottom of its
sleeves from a black collarless shirt. Although collarless the starkness is
taken away by tiny frills around the neck.
Colour begins to appear in small doses, greys have a sheen
to them in the trench coat ..
and pale pastels appear on shirts.
Voluminous gauze shirts are so sheer that the shades appear like
water colours. This white linen suit is
worn with a hardly there blue and white gauze shirt.
A pale peppermint shirt is worn with a cross hatched grey single breasted suit. A subtle nod to the Edwardian style can be
seen with its 3 buttons and higher lapels .
Then the colours become bolder and more romantic.
Adding a touch of the new romantics is the iridescent teal
blue artist smock shirt with cowl neck ...
and the long loose fitting iridescent pink
shirt with kick flare trousers.
The Edwardian influence comes in to its own on the bold raspberry pink suits with their
long 6 button jackets
and frock style pleated swing backs, and kick flare
trousers.
Another is double breasted with slimmer cut trousers.
There were a few other double breasted suits but more reminiscent
of the 40s with their turn-ups and softer neutral tones
Linen is the key fabric and the colour palette ranges from
black and white, soft neutrals to the deepest indigo and the bright crayon
colours.
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