PORTS 1961 Menswear Spring Summer 2018

The spring-summer Ports 1961 menswear collection is a celebration of diversity, strength and optimism.

 Fashion reflects the world around us. In a time of challenge, fear and disillusion, it is the creative person's role to try to deliver a message of love and hope.

 For the past several seasons, Milan Vukmirovic has been exploring the urgency of love and the importance of fraternity, unity and solidarity.

 Inspired by Jean Michel Basquiat’s work and personal style, African cool-setters and the hip-hop scene in New York in the early Eighties, Milan Vukmirovic presents an upbeat collection with a very positive message.

Brimming with color and meaning, this collection is a window that opens to the world and defends the richness of difference.

 This season, Ports 1961 draws in equal measures on street culture, contemporary dress and local artisans.

 Embroidery and prints point to far horizons.

 This collection is, in its own way, a message of solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement that began in the street and on social media in 2012.

 The fight against violence and for justice for black people resonates today in an even wider, bigger way.
 Now, more than ever, EVERY LIFE MATTERS. EVERY COLOR MATTERS

 ONLY LOVE MATTERS.

Ports 1961 Menswear Spring Summer 2017 Campaign

PORTS 1961 UNVEILS SPRING/SUMMER 2017 MENSWEAR CAMPAIGN

 Ports 1961 is pleased to announce the release of the Spring/Summer 2017 menswear advertising campaign.

Photographed by Menswear Creative Director of Ports 1961, Milan Vukmirovic, the campaign features Matthew Noszka.

PORTS 1961 UNVEILS FALL/WINTER 2016 MENSWEAR CAMPAIGN

Model: Adonis Bosso

Ports 1961 release  their Autumn/Winter 2016 menswear advertising campaign. 

Photographed by Creative Director of PORTS 1961 Menswear, Milan Vukmirovic and styled by Scarlett Viquel, the campaign features Nick Wooster, George Cortina, Miguel Arnau & Adonis Bosso.

Creative Director & Photography: Milan Vukmirovic

Stylist: Scarlett Viquel

Models: Nick Wooster, George Cortina, Miguel Arnau, Adonis Bosso

Hair: Massimo Gamba

Make-up: Arianna Cattarin

Location: Milano

Model Nick Wooster

Model: Miguel Arnau

Model: George Cortina

Model: George Cortina

Model: Adonis Bosso

PORTS 1961 MENSWEAR SPRING/SUMMER 2017

Titled Less Hate, More Love, Milan Vukmirovic reinterprets the male wardrobe with an excess of gentleness,for Ports 1961 SS17 collection.

He adds romanticism to military wear, giving a new twist to their decorations, adding flowers and re-embroidering everything with poetry.

 Uniforms have always occupied a privileged place in the fashion pantheon. With Milan Vukmirovic’s fourth collection for Ports 1961, the French artistic director does not restrict himself to lines of perfectly conceived army uniforms, but transfers their stripes, insignia, frogs and ceremonial braiding on to jerkins, shirts, sweatshirts and shorts.

 This military influence, playfully redefined, is boosted by references to classic sportswear.
As part of the collection, a partnership has been signed with Everlast, creating a capsule collection that is distributed exclusively by Ports 1961. The iconic logo of the American brand is reworked in large dimensions on a selection of sports pieces with a new, more pronounced fashion accent.

 In parallel with this, abstract flower emblems are also key, appearing layered on raw edge poplin over shirt fronts, in tone-on-tone embroidery on lengthened bomber jackets, and screen-printed to break up the graphic rhythm on sweaters and marinière T-shirts.

 The accessories are also part of the celebration. Backpacks and sneakers continue the textile motifs of the ready-to-wear. A new line of objects and small leather goods in smooth leather has the golden signature #LOVE, the hashtag for Spring-Summer 2017, which is also found on the garments, updating the #followme which has characterized previous seasons.

PORTS 1961 Launches Collaboration with Artist Michael Lau

New York, NY - Ports 1961 and Creative Director Milan Vukmirovic, in an intimate event, unveiled the second toy in a series of three designed in collaboration with Hong Kong artist Michael Lau, at the New York City menswear flagship on May 19th 2016.

Vukmirovic's Spring-Summer 2016 collection has inspired Lau to create a 9-foot tall surfer figure for the second in the series, which features the key themes of the collection including the star camo print, #followme, and Navajo embroidery motifs.
Following the unveiling, the sculpture installation will be on view through mid July 2016. The third and final figure in the series will be revealed in early 2017. Michael Lau is widely known for his designer toys inspired by street culture, hip-hop and skate culture.

Milan Vukmirovic (right) with model wearing the collection

Effortlessly cool and masculine, Lau's work is well matched for the forward-thinking approach to menswear that Milan Vukmirovic has brought to Ports 1961.