I wouldn't say I really hated the Jil Sander Spring 2011 menswear show. The neon colours and the op-art stripes may just be a little difficult on the eyes, and you would need to have a lot of guts and feeling like a big happy kid who has not experienced how bitchy life can get, to pull off such bold colour combinations. Lest I get stoned for crossing into unchartered territories of menswear while making such unruly comments, errr....i guess we can say, "that was some awesome garden and there was some nice tailoring going on over there." But it wasn't a complete hate affair for me, there were some colour combinations that I liked and a few pieces that are worth mentioning here.
The pale peach and the stroke of bright purple is definitely a 'I DIE' combination, also the men's equivalent of this.
While I hated how this orange was shown on its own on a pair of pants in the first look, it was quite a different issue when it appeared again in the form of a suit.
These techno, slightly 3D, photographic floral illustrations are quite something. I need to see it up-close.
The tailoring, as previously mentioned, was extraordinary. Raf Simons can never ever go wrong in that department.
This collection was Raf Simons way of breaking away from the Jil Sander aethestic of a clean crisp white shirt. Perhaps it will be the same too for the womenswear collection, and somehow I'm looking forward to it.