Every once in a while we come across a new fashion concept so revolutionary that we think that it must have been around from the very beginning of fashion time. Surprise, surprise then when BDMOTP was browsing recently at fashion school annual showroom exhibition in Paris when we met a Hungarian young designer who had the foresight to come up with something what apparently has never been done before: To create an ageless clothing line and collection for men over sixty – and simply call it – Grandpa.
Photo courtesy of the designer.
Hey, with all the thousands of super cool and hot pictures of hip and young-looking adolescent, twenty-something, thirty-something, and middle-aged men spotting the latest greatest accessories while donning the best and brightest new menswear designers flowing in stream upon information stream around the various media portals around the globe daily (yes we provide that type of content) – why not have a simple yet special collection for men over sixty? Someone had to do it. And in this case the creative designing artist is called Annamari Nagy, who is from Hungary and who is graduating from fashion school in Paris.
One of the secrets for ageless over sixties is to use basic dark blue as a color – not to hide the wrinkles of course, but probably to accentuate them and make them stand out; and is to use basic denim and simple jacquard in minimalist fashion – again to make that age come out and not hide it; and is also to choose intelligently an appropriate collection theme or concept – which in this case is the universal and commonly known profession of ‘the butcher’. Now imagine ageless men over sixty posing as butchers. In simple dark clothes with raw textures. It is a marvelous and grand idea – a concept long overdue. So bring in Gerard Depardieu who must be getting up there now in age, and who is probably dying to try this collection on, as being a butcher has always been his dream.
Butcher’s garb for ageless men
Much of the work that Annamari Nagy is doing for this SS16 collection comes in the form of crocheting and hand knitting – a dying art perhaps – but indeed quite formidable and appropriate when attempting to match & mingle the pedigree of good ancestry with men of good old vintage and age, who like soft-ripened cheese, or good old wine, or better yet still – old whiskey or cognac branded only by the number of the oak barrel, still go forth in search of more, and who do not hold back, so that when your last cigar is smoked, and your last meat has been butchered, you will find yourself where once only old soldiers were privileged to go: they do not die, but fade away…
Grandpa, for ageless men!
Posted by Sandro and photos by Mous unless otherwise specified.
