Like Ernest Hemingway, Daiki Suzuki is a person of the world, and attracts on his life expertise to create his masterpieces. It was becoming, then, that the designer had taken the late American author as his inspiration for this Engineered Clothes assortment, citing Hemingway as “one in all our admired heroes.”
Rooted in rugged army staples and American workwear, this season felt like a assured return to the type of garments Engineered Clothes is greatest identified for. Suzuki supposed this specific outing as “a brand new metropolis safari.” Nonetheless, these garments are extra destined to mooch across the native farmer’s markets of New York and Tokyo than they’re to fish for marlins or traverse the Serengeti (although you would put on them to do all of it do you have to want). It’s that sense of authenticity blended with journey that retains the label’s providing recent and related every season.
Plus, Suzuki doesn’t simply rehash his references; he reinvigorates them by including his personal model of irreverence and playfulness, tossing in a vibrant print—see the leopard print cagoules, trippy jacquards and madras jackets—or an surprising combine of materials: the futuristic silver nylon, pleasantly anachronistic subsequent to the effective floral corduroy. Most charming of this season’s artsy thrives, nonetheless, have been the twill jackets and fatigue pants that featured line drawings impressed by the pastoral scenes in Hemingway’s oeuvre. They have been Picasso-style, and apparently executed by a member of EG’s in-house workforce.
There was enjoyable available within the silhouettes too, with searching jackets elongated nearly all the way down to the knees, full skirts with adjustable gathers on the hem, and imposing army physician coats with straps to tighten on the neck or the edges—or, as within the lookbook, to hold from the shoulder like a backpack. The surface world beckons.
