For fall, creative director Kim Bekker decided to keep things simple. “We really wanted to make a study of simplicity and look at straightforward archetypes,” she explained during a preview at Isabel Marant showroom in Paris.
Bekker began, logically enough, by listening to her instinct as well as to colleagues on the shop floor near and far. “When you look at the women’s collection, we’ve always had a variety of women who want to wear the clothes, so it seemed obvious that we should think globally about different types of guys, not just one kind of man,” she said.
What Bekker and her team came up with—a certain attitude toward dressing by way of the ’90s, styled here in the vein of Brad Pitt’s breakout role in Thelma Louise— took them back to the basics: the perfect white t-shirt, the right denims, a silhouette-defining chore jacket.
The fall lineup neatly checked all of fall’s major trends, with an accent on desert hues: key pieces include a patched jacket with leather accents, plaids—a mahogany-hued hoodie, a color-blocked button-down, a jean jacket style in Japanese check—and a new cut of trousers, smartly tailored in cream or hickory stripe Oshkosh, that walks the line between formal and casual. Embroideries—a Marant signature—were minimal, cropping up in naive marigold stitching along the seams of medium-wash jeans, or more showily as a desert scene on the back of a midnight blue souvenir jacket emblazoned with “On the Road.”
Not visible here is the season’s latest footwear: a hybrid “ankle boot-loafer” in stitched suede and the Senny sneaker, a new spin on the brand’s iconic Bekett.
