A-Cold-Wall FALL 2022 MENSWEAR
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Samuel Ross’ fall 2022 effort for A-Cold-Wall may be his most avant-garde yet; not always easy to like, but sometimes hard to get out of your head. Here were pants as curved as parenthesis, enveloping coats with wire-framed hoods that obscure the face, or burqa-like hoods that make one think of samurai head armor — or if you live in London, perhaps Renzo Piano’s striking building known as The Shard.
The look fell somewhere between the street urchin of yesteryear, and the Mars dweller of tomorrow.
“There are definitely strands of hardship in some of the silhouettes,” Ross said, mentioning the weight of some of the overcoats in heavy canvas, molded Tyvek and Dyneema fabrics, and the foam tubes inserted into some of the flak jackets. “I wouldn’t say the word is anxiety, but there’s still a tension.” - WWD
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