THE GUESTS: DUNHILL AUTUMN WINTER 2020 RUNWAY SHOW

#dunhillAW20 #PFWM Creative Director: #MarkWeston The old guard and the avant-garde are both celebrated in our latest collection, where tradition and subversion work together in a distinctly British way. The technical specificity of menswear is celebrated, with British tailoring traditions explored and experimented with, providing a new take on deconstruction. “dunhill is not one thing, it’s many,” says Mark Weston, Creative Director. “This is my fifth show at the house and there feels like a certain kind of summing up in this collection. I am fascinated with The Blitz club, particularly Homer Sykes’ pictures of it. It was a place of freedom and individuality, a mix of cultures: performers, the establishment and art. We don’t seem to have that now, that collision. And the collision is important. The man in this collection is a cross between the preppy and the new wave, the establishment and the anti-establishment – it is not about making purely singular characters. Instead, it is about taking all those elements and putting them together, reconstructing and recontextualising. I approached the collection in terms of process – dismantling it and putting it together in a different way. It is also about how to build and engineer clothing. It is a mindset that is not lofty, but it is exciting in its technicality. In many ways, it is a new view of deconstruction.” - This is the third show with music provided by Moses Boyd, this time collaborating with poet and musician James Massi