Suite Suit SS/07

Classic garments, dress codes and dress behavior are what fascinate Corné Gabriëls. His Spring/Summer 2007 collection ‘Suite Suit’ is based on one of the most conventional images of a man, this collection consists of fashion items inspired on a suit. The items are nothing more than what they appear to be, they are only worn differently and details are illuminated. This collection analyses the suit to its essence, in order to find new forms, within the anxious rules which comes with the different dress codes.

‘Suite Suit’ consists of shirts with outlines of a jacket or a necktie, that are transformed into abstract shapes and deep colours, a series of shawls with characteristic dress codes in it, combined with prints and a series of accessories in black and white, as if cut from a suit. The items are isolated so that the attention focuses more on the sensitive and frivolous side of it, than to the more distant and business side of what the suit normally stands for. The items refer to a suit, only through recognizable details, but the casual way of wearing, shows us that the man is more than just the carrier of the clothes.