German designer Robert Geller unveiled this season's collection during New York’s fashion week. Interpreting the line as "a tribute to the beauty of mixing wardrobe elements that don’t always seem to fit", he combines urban elements with refined metropolitan aesthetic. Besides a diverse set of simple denims, leather jackets and elegant evening coats, the collection aligns a set of illustrious items such as fur shawls, layered blazers, dinner jackets among others. The designer accomplishes a fine balance of respect for the past and vision of the future. Taking revamped classics that are drawn from all sorts of looks — the olive military-inspired trench, dinner jackets, formal vests, finely tailored suits and tough biker leather jackets…just to name a few– Geller pulls these seemingly functionally and stylistically disparate items into the same look with a non-nonchalant effortless ease. Through an array of creative layering, the collection of contemporary remixed staples crafted with a quiet, youthful elegance, advocates liberation in dressing and revolts against the restrictions of so-called dressing traditions and taboos. In some key looks, an oversize luxurious pile of cream fur scarf takes the street-ready brown leather jacket uptown when completed with a bowler hat topper. And to whoever said one can’t wear flowing, silky plum lounge pants a la Hugh Hefner out with an urban combat ready indigo/black color-blocked trench and combat boots, Geller would beg to differ with a beautiful persuasive case. Other looks that unleashes the freedom to layer pushes the impeccable, opulent gentleman to go on the wild side by pulling a deep plum button down decorated with a elongated flowing silk tie gathered in a drippy bow with a black leather puffy jacket worn over a classic overcoat and finished off with a grunge-rock worthy shredded denim. On a more black-tie side (but without compromising on awe, navy striped wool cape with a fur collar is daringly topped over a regal, plum striped suit.
A collection which tugs at the sartorial heartstrings of man "who marries a modern beatnik cool with the classical luxury of an earlier era", Geller transgresses through boundaries of age, style, occasion and time with a daring leap that looks pulled together and is never ostentatious.
A collection which tugs at the sartorial heartstrings of man "who marries a modern beatnik cool with the classical luxury of an earlier era", Geller transgresses through boundaries of age, style, occasion and time with a daring leap that looks pulled together and is never ostentatious.
