Paul Smith Males’s Spring 2024

Paul Smith took an existential flip this season, trying on the completely different potentialities of the swimsuit. “What’s a swimsuit in any case?” he and his crew puzzled. “Does it all the time should be an identical tailor-made set?”

Smith isn’t the one one who’s questioning.

Because the finish of the pandemic, well-dressed males have been rethinking their relationship with the swimsuit, including and subtracting components to swimsuit their existence and a brand new work-from-home tradition. Some males have even added ties, which had died lengthy earlier than the pandemic, again into the combination.

“In fact the swimsuit remains to be important, and really related; we promote loads of them. In actual fact, we offered 20 in our store on Saturday,” stated Smith, who nonetheless works on the store flooring of his Albemarle Road retailer in London.

“It’s simply that the following technology is absolutely fascinated by the swimsuit in a brand new manner. It doesn’t need to be a single-breasted jacket. It may be a vest, or an extended jacket with a shirt collar. It may be oversize, navy impressed or unconstructed,” Smith added.

He delivered all of these choices, after which some, in a set that was full of zingy colour, print and materials comparable to Fresco, a light-weight English wool, cotton and silk.

The brand new swimsuit options got here as boxy workwear ensembles, in tomato crimson or sky blue with zigzag distinction stitching. A tank high peeked from beneath a grey waistcoat and thin trousers whereas a three-piece model with an iridescent sheen got here with stirrup pants.

Smith drained the formality from a black satin jacket by including a signature striped shirt and denims, and even shook up a pinstripe swimsuit, remodeling the trousers into thigh-skimming shorts. The look wasn’t for each man, however some will definitely be thanking Smith when the cruel summer season solar beats down on town streets.

There have been many choices right here, and Smith is actually the person to ship them. He’s been within the clothes enterprise for greater than 50 years and has seen all of it many instances earlier than.