Songzio SS18 Menswear at London Fashion Week: Mens

South Korean designer, SONGZIO presented his SS18 collection entitled “Crossing Veils” at London Fashion Week Men’s. This season marks the brand’s third UK showcase outside of the Paris and Seoul fashion weeks.

 “Crossing Veils” was inspired by the phrase: ‘Man, in his night, searches for his own light’- man’s emotional journey from a boy’s curiosity in all things, a young man’s ambitions to a lover’s yearning -  always searching for a way to express and show his feelings in a rigid society.

It’s stripes, stripes and more stripes – ranging from jaunty wide awning stripes teamed with candy striped shirts, chic clean calk stripes teamed with shadow striped shirts,

to the more sombre classic pinstripe and tonal stripes

Look closely and you’ll find a print inside the awning and candy stripes. This print took inspiration from two portrait paintings by Velasquez depicting the Infanta Margarita Teresa in both a pink and a blue dress, Songzio has painstakingly translated Velasquez’s loose brushstrokes on to printed textiles inside his vertical awning stripes.

Colour palette juxtaposes the brand’s classic black and white with the more whimsical  royal blue, yellow and an orange shade very close to the pink shade used by Velasquez.

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Sharply tailored fit jackets with shawl collars contrast against the loose and playful silhouettes of shirts.

Trousers range from billowing to slim 

with side fringing,

 jodpurs and buckles holding slit openings together

 T-shirts sport watercolour painting prints. 

The result is a collection, that is dramatic and bold with delicate artworks

For this season SONGZIO has designed two pieces of footwear including derby’s embellished with metal studs and sandals.

Songzio AW17 Menswear at London Fashion Week

Internationally acclaimed South Korean designer, SONGZIO presents the AW17 collection entitled “Misanthrope” at London Fashion Week Men’s. This season marks the brand’s second UK showcase outside of the Paris and Seoul fashion weeks.

AW17 collection – “Misanthrope”, visually depicts the story of a young man, walking the cold yet serene street on a eerie morning of an unknown city.

This stern and almost ascetic young man immersed in his own high sense of beauty and life finds himself charmed and warmed by the winter lights piercing the cold mist of dawn.

 His heart warmed, touched and inspired, finds himself alone in the city’s false winter.

 Free flowing shirts and voluminous trousers are countered and cocooned by long oversize black coats and capes that fall strongly from the shoulders.

Each look represents the young misanthrope’s free and light conscience, cocooned by the heaviness of his own asceticism.

The result is a collection that is dramatic and bold yet balanced with delicate artworks, depicted through dark armour like outerwear and juxtaposed with light sensual, delicate art prints underneath.

Dense knitwear from capes to voluminous bomber jackets in hues of brown and black are complimented by the warm touch of mustang patchwork.

Blurring the boundaries of fashion and art and continuing with the concept, ‘Paint on Black’, each item of the collection emanates from the season’s original paintings, painted by the designer himself.

The fusion of abstract art with modernist clothing is the brand’s unique signature style. From cold sharply tailored suits to romantic volumes, every season is another delicately curated exposition

Art prints find themselves in both the inner wears as well as on leather jackets, bombers and in the linings of tailored jackets.