Thank goodness for Kim Choong-Wilkins. With everyone rocking the massive shoulders, from Margiela to Balmain, I thought the guys were going to be left out. Come on now, admit. Carine looks pretty damn cool in her exaggerated shoulders.
With a couple of months at McQueen prior to starting
as a designer at Ermenegildo Zegna, our dear designer has elicited all sorts of excitements among the fashionable boys of Paris and New York. And for all the right reasons.
About his collection Bodybound: 'We must not look at goblin men, we must not buy their
fruits: who knows upon what soil they fed, their hungry thirsty roots?'
The macabre photography of Joel-Peter Witkin and this particular verse
by Christina Rossetti are the inspiration for "BODYBOUND". Together
they inform my collection on the human condition, desire and the
perverse. Referencing both the anatomical drawings of Vesalius and the
eroticism of Hokusai, the collection revolves around skin, sinew,
muscle, and bone. It pumps sex back into a craft that has become
lust-less, prompting arousal and addiction for men's knitwear by
examining the relationship between seduction and repulsion. Fabrics are
ultra luxurious knits, laminated and studded, hard and glistening."
I love the Arthurian references in his work. I see dragons scales. I see the broad shoulders of a fierce knights. So structures, so harsh. Utterly desireable.
I need one of his coats.
