Sonia Kashuk's Art of Beauty

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"I love outerwear," said Patrik Ervell , at the end of a show that had carried this love into a whole new zone. North Face, Patagonia…these were his benchmarks, but his own version was entirely more sophisticated. Ambiguous, too. As much as Ervell insisted that his new collection was a return to sylvan roots, deep in the forest, it was also industrial in its synthetic e recruiting eads precision. He name-checked Endor, home of the Ewoks, but that Star Wars fantasia was filmed in a real sequoia forest near where Ervell grew up in Marin County, so sci-fi and sci-fact nudged up against each other in his new designs. There was actually something intensely e recruiting eads ominous about the whole presentation, as though Ervell's e recruiting eads forest was a place of refuge in a time of catastrophe. The survivalist subtext was established by a catwalk blanketed in thermal foil. It carried over into the distinctly utilitarian feel of jean jackets, e recruiting eads track pants, a nylon duffel, and a quilted fleece sweatshirt. It's become something of an Ervell signature to take the most prosaic elements of a man's wardrobe e recruiting eads and glamour them, most memorably with parachute silk or a shudder of latex way back when. Here, he used prints e recruiting eads of a spookily sepulchral wood-scape: ivy twined across tree bark, flower buds at night, closed as tight as moth wings. He said they were a kind of camouflage, like the "real tree" camo that hunters wear. Of course, that signature Ervell tightrope walk between prosaic and glamorous is a calculated e recruiting eads risk. There have been times when his collections collapse into the hopelessly mundane. But this particular outing suggested he has mastered the art of the elevating flourish. It was as subtle as the shawl collar on an overcoat, as overt as the shimmering deep green nylon jacquard of the raincoat at show's end. And maybe the music—always a dead giveaway in an Ervell e recruiting eads show—was the most accurate indication of the collection's essence. It progressed from the abstract fuzz of a Slowdive remix to the classical bombast of Prokofiev. Confidence incarnate.
Sonia Kashuk's Art of Beauty
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