Craig Green. Men's Fall 2020 - Paris Fashion Week

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Men's Fall 2020 for Paris Fashion Week has been filled to the brim, with some of the UK designers moving over from their London showings to the Paris Runways, there has also been a lot of new comers, post graduates with their studio settings and Asian/Japanese/South Korean designers showing for their Fall seasons.  A busy week.  Craig Green who was mostly exhibited in London, then Milan has moved across to the Paris Shows, which makes sense for his very unique version of the avant garde, in fact so uniquely devised by the UK designer, I have always been impressed and admired the originality and stalwart craftsmanship that Green has created over the years, to which a lot of the newer designers, who have showed at PFW this year, should watch and learn.  Particularly the lesson of breaking their primary aesthetics to chase a trend.  

Green falls into the rare category of a fashion designer who is able to cross over into its concept artistry, but not wildly conceptual there is a functionality to his creations, a practicality.  Even though it may herald architectural configurations and modeling.  The styles are meant to be worn or at least as  samples of a possible concept in building aesthetics into our changing times.  Which I think Green is studying with a resolve, to maintain this level of an underivative astuteness, particularly for every season so far that he has shown his collections.   He has never fallen short of explaining that the bases of all is designs are centered around out door or adventure wear, holding down a once seasonal trend of men's styles, Green has not swayed the course, holding that line and with nautical cues abundant for most of his stylizations – he is sailing on though the tumultuous waters.  With climate change as a strong reason to implement attire that may reflect or suit the dramatic changes in our weather patterns, Green has always experimented with styles that insulate and protect the wearer.  A robust, yet cultured and focused concepts of styles.

For his Fall 2020 collection, Green has once again, as noted from previous showings, set a past to present resonance with his concept outfits, layering the styles into a multi perspective, the idea is to adjust the clothes in accordance to that variant in time.  Styled and protective layering, tailored and fixed with a durability, the achromatic scale of white as a base, that allows Craig Green's palette of the neutral earth tones to shine through, it holds an elegance in its doomsday ethics.  Which I like a lot.  As we are living under the dramatic turning point of adjustment, entering a period where our lifestyles that we have known and taken for granted; the very cities with its social/economic structures will change in earnest, this is by no human devised revolution. Rather the natural world in an induced cyclical omniscience, will, not by any consciousness, force this on us all.  We might as well look styled and dressed for the occasion.