Last fall/winter season New York Fashion Week (NYFW) tried something a little different. For the past few seasons, the menswear presence during NYFW has seen a significant reduction in the amount of menswear designers that present during the spring/season runway/presentation season.
With the most prominent menswear designers presenting in London, Milan, and Paris in late June and menswear market weeks following directly afterwards, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for menswear designers to show their spring/summer collection in New York City in early September. Most of the decisions around the menswear collections have been made two months prior to NYFW. That said; Y-3, John Varvatos, and recently Michael Bastian, as well as many other menswear designers no longer show in NYC.
With corporate sponsor Cadillac, last February NYFW looked to minimize the cyphering off of menswear designers. And it seems to be taking effect. For spring 2015, 10 menswear designers—sponsored by Cadillac—showed at Industria Superstudio the day before the official start of NYFW.
Carlos Campos was one of those designers. For spring/summer 2015 Carlos Campos looked to athletic active wear as expressed to graphic elements and bold colors. Taking a nod from artist Javier Abarca, in this collection Campos has evolved his man from an interesting the fashion guy who had a deep penchant for updated sportswear looks to a man who is chic, sophisticated and on trend without abandoning his love of garments at that facilitate comfort and ease of movement.
Where in previous collections Campos would stay mostly with neutrals, for spring 2015 there were bold dashes of color throughout the entire collections. And the graphic elements in this collection that went beyond mere embellishment really added that wow factor that was sometimes missing from some of Campos’ previous outings.
Dressing his guy at every jointure of his day in not new for Campos. However, in this collection, Campos raising the bar in refinement and fashion-forward sensibility, demonstrating that his guy is not only sporty, but also has a strong sense of style.
—William S. Gooch
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