“The inspiration for the collection came from Godard’s La Chinoise, a strange and funny film made in 1967 about a group of young, rich French students who spent a summer in one of their parents Parisian apartments studying Mao and flirting with anarchy and rebellion,” according to Band of Outsiders.
I love the patchwork suit. Jason Schwartzman. But I would rock this suit with vintage gray oxfords. Sans bow tie.
They continue to describe the Collection, “The Band collection took the theme of students, the mood of Paris in the late 60s, and the style and humor of Godard and Truffaut’s hero and alter ego Jean Pierre Leaud, the star of the film. Tailored sweatpants, tromp l’oeil prints of composition notebooks, walnut school desks, and of a boat shoe itself on boat shoes, and collegiate cashmere sweaters worn with corduroy suits conveyed the feeling of students, of something elementary and basic, and something youthful. The color palette for the men’s collection was inspired by Robert Bechtle’s photorealist paintings. It was important for me this season to create a sense of value and permanence in the men’s pieces, the ultimate classics, as during this economy consumers are so much more hesitant to make big purchases.”
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