Stella McCartney is steaming ahead with her see-now buy-now men’s wear, which launched last November, and her winter 2017 collection draws on her many worlds – women’s wear, The Beatles, her father Sir Paul McCartney and her efforts to work in an environmentally conscious way.
She said her “weird music heritage” made her think about how men used to dress – and all the fun they had doing it. “I looked at my dad and his peers, at punk, at rave, at different moments in music history. There was so much more exploration,” McCartney said, adding that in the past men felt freer to express themselves, and to play around with their wardrobes more.
Tailoring is a big part of the collection: There are boxy suit jackets with patch pockets, narrow trousers with built-in belts or cargo pockets on the leg, and a double-breasted camel coat with rounded shoulders. “I’m a massive fan of the camel coat – that’s the New Yorker in me,” she said. There’s a camel duffle coat, too.
A more formal dark jacket with a bright red shawl collar is based on one of her father’s from the Seventies, which he had made. The short boots with the little
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