Christopher Nying, creative director of Our Legacy, apparently loves to cook and host dinner parties. Placed among accessories at the Swedish brand's fall presentation in its Milan showroom, a long dining table suggested a feast had been held: only crumbs remained on the pastry stand, along with a few hard-boiled eggs and Polaroid photographs. of Nying putting pasta in his mouth. .
The installation explained the kitchen-stained wool jackets and sweatshirts from the fall collection, and small kitchen details, from the lace borders that Swedes use to decorate shelves (here adorning shirts with tablecloths) to a hanging silver shaped like a piece of bread. or a bracelet that could function as a napkin holder.
Forgetting the deliberately stained fabrics, this was a cleaner, more adult and confident Our Legacy collection, with fewer grunge elements and more of his loose tailoring, modern shirt jackets, leather jackets and sweaters.
Nying repeated elements from his fall 2019 collection, here “older and more mature,” he said in the show notes, no doubt referring to the ties and leather gloves that brightened the outfits in the lookbook images. , models photographed in a fashion style. show situation. Men's tie clips were reused as hair clips on some of the women's models.
Mainly in black, grey, white and beige, the collection seemed quite classic and did not innovate. Still, many fashion-conscious people will likely soon be breaking bread at some trendy dinner party dressed in these slyly cool clothes.
