NYC-based Swedish designer Patrik Ervell continues his intellectual and minimal approach to menswear with this season's collection. Featuring a fairly subdued color palette of black, grays, creams, blues and white he adopted a fitted and more structured approach than his previous seasons that seemed both formal and casual at the same time. Timeless is perhaps one of the most overused phrases in menswear at the moment but it's perfectly apt for this collection which echoes the preppy early 1960s look that we know so well right now, with a real modernist edge to the cut. A parallel universe for moody art-school kids with a thing for Joy Division with dark navy work shirts and Dickies-esque pants that wouldn't look too out-of-place in a Northern English industrial town, hefty Doc Martens-like lace-ups, belted overcoats of the sort that Ian Curtis himself would have rocked. Of course, this being Patrik Ervell, it's not all cut from familiar fabrics -the designer's penchant for synthetic materials is in full effect, with latex rubber raincoats and scarves.
