Menswear fashion is back for 2021, and it is not of the pandemic, dressed for the sofa kind. Designers are embracing innovation, breathing energy into a new season, full of unexpected colour, prints and cuts.
Brown
A colour often associated with the seventies and already declared to be a key colour for homes and interiors in 2021, brown has made its way back to fashion, too. From cardamom to gold to truffle, from leather and suede to chunky knits, the brown palette, oozing between walnut and mocha at the dark end, and tortilla and peanut at the light end, may soon be the new grey. A partner to beige and khaki hues, brown can be deeply visceral in texture. At Hermes, the opening look of its FW21 presentation was brown. At Jil Sander brown swirled through knitwear, adorned coats, tailoring and utility trousers.
Heavy Metals
Metallic hues add a playful and contrasting touch to the FW21 colour trend palette, sometimes texturally applied as a fabric treatment, like in performance wear, or printed onto leather or wool, as seen at JW Anderson. Other times the colour is great on its…
