For the Summer 2013 men's collection, the Carven man is pulled through a sojourn at the Cap Ferret, in a weekend in the Hamptons way. He leaves Paris and his uniform to liberate
a natural simplicity, where codes no long exist.
He plays with his WASP look à la John John Kennedy to become a dandy in the countryside, relaxed and happy. He wears a perfecto on a light suit, short overalls with a parka, or a pea coat over an underwear; he even takes out his jacket’s shoulder pads.
The colors are fresh and vegetable; they evoke the fruits of the summer markets and the sweetness of cold water, with yellow, orange, light blue and all versions of green.
The prints suggest a certain insouciance, reminders of a bygone age, with the herbarium print as a souvenir of the dried plants forgotten between the yellowed pages of a dictionary, or the kaleidoscope print.
Guillaume Henry continues to explore menswear by reworking the volumes, confirming a unique signature. The proportions are reconsidered highlighting the contrasts in the silhouette. Associations are aestheticized, materials such as color confront each other: tweed effect linen and seersucker cotton combined with technical flaws and a printed coated poplin.
This season, the Carven man completes its allure with a backpack developed in collaboration with Porter. In addition to penny loafer leather moccasins in rubber-effect leather, he collects derbies created in collaboration with Zespà.
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