JW ANDERSON MS21 WRS21

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JW ANDERSON MS21 WRS21

Publisher: JW Anderson

60 pages

Year: 2022

Price: 150 €

Comments: A portfolio in a box. Photographs plates with two posters, dried flowers and several cards and hanging tools. In very good condition other than traces of use and wear due to handling. Text in English. Art direction and design by OK-RM.

Presented on fictional characters - enlarged young male personalities - the collection juxtaposes notions of pragmatism and playfulness within a context of cozy domesticity. Volumes are round and enveloping, or elongated and sleepy, with blown-up details that keep their function in off-kilter scale, and unexpected touches providing jolly, frivolous diversions. Dresses, capes, pillow sweaters, cropped trousers, elongated jumpers and loafer mules reiterate and recon-textualize tropes of the brand’s DNA.

Patchworked jockey coats sprout patch pockets as roomy as bags. Sleeves get excessively long, trailing to the floor. Military capes spawn an excess of buttons. Long knits have an home-spun immediacy and a cozy intimacy. Slits create movement on tailored pieces. Pompoms draw the giddy contours of a plain sleeveless jumper. Faded denim is tailored into a patchwork coat. Blanket stitching underlines the addition and accumulation of elements.

Texture, either real or suggested by way of print on fabric as well as knit, adds another layer to the story: brocade impressions, tapestry motifs, targets, stripes, flowers, Pol Anglada’s blown-up faces. A sentiment of youthful, freewheeling amusement composedly comes to the fore.

- JW Anderson's presentation