We’ve learned how one can dress like layered-up Copenhagen girlies, coquettish Gen Z residents of the Lower East Side, and frazzled English women out of your fave early 00s movies, but now Swedish-born, London-based designer Per Götesson has teamed up with Spanish label Armand Basi to supply us with all the things we’d like to emulate the Barcelona fashion crowd. After visiting Barcelona in March, Götesson joined forces with Armand Basi to design an ungendered, collaborative capsule collection which clashes the slick lines of city’s geometric landscapes with Catalan people’s effortless, laid-back culture and magnificence.
“There’s loads of pride in being Catalan here in Barcelona. I desired to channel that through the gathering, whilst also trying to the unique architecture that shapes the town today,” explains Götesson, who besides drawing inspiration directly from Barcelona street style, also dove into Armand Basi’s 90s archives to hand-select key archetypes which could possibly be reimagined for the town’s next gen. “Armand Basi provided me with a blank canvas to interpret the brand’s archives in a way [that was] true to me and my work,” he adds.
But what actually makes up the Barcelona uniform? In keeping with Götesson and Armand Basi, it’s all about sleek, hybridised, apron-style trousers inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modernist 1930’s Barcelona Pavilion, slouchy cut-out jumpers in electric blue hues, vest tops emblazoned with pseudo-barcode graphics, and classic shirting stamped with a collaborative logo between the 2 brands. Elsewhere, tailored jackets reimagine Basi’s signature outerwear in recycled rubber and a group of one-of-a-kind, silver visors, necklaces, and body chains by Götesson’s partner and collaborator Husam El Odeh are crafted to mirror the town’s architectural lines across models’ bodies.
In other news this week, North West has solidified herself as fashion’s most ruthless critic ( Daniel Roseberry), Maison Margiela just dropped a hot high fashion flip phone, Finnish label Latimmier demolished office dress codes as we all know them in a latest short film, and we explored five Stockholm labels lighting up the Swedish fashion scene. For all the things else you missed this week, click through the gallery below.
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