Bode: The Fashionable Menswear Line Inspired by Your Grandmother
Bode, the menswear line designed by Emily Adams Bode, is fresh to the New York men’s fashion circuit. This is only Bode’s second time showing its collection during Men’s Fashion Week, but already it’s caught our eye as one to remember.
Unlike other men’s designers whose collections are often filled with variations of suits, oxford shirts, knits, and trousers, Bode is offering a colorful escape from traditional menswear that is refreshing and comforting at the same time. The line features an abundance of mixed and matched patterns and fabrics that create the “quilted” look that our grandmothers love so much.
Most of the pieces from Bode’s collection are cut from unique, vintage fabrics from around the globe. For example, in prior collections, Victorian quilts and French bed linens from the 1920s were incorporated in the garments. Bode also sources handmade fabrics from India, Japan, and Italy. Everything is then tailor-made in New York, where Bode is based.
“Somebody spent hours and days and months making those from scraps, and they were, at some point, so functional and cherished,” Bode told the New York Times. “I’m repurposing that labor of love into a new piece that will be utilized. It gains a new function.”
At Bode’s Fall/Winter 2017 presentation, the setting featured various stages representing spaces in a home — a bed, a kitchen, a living room. The models (both male and female) were arranged throughout, each wearing bursts of yellow, orange, blue, and pink in the form of striped trousers, pajamas, or quilted jackets.
Some of the models were even set up like bands, complete with electric guitars and a keyboard. Despite this display, the music that actually played during the presentation was calm and peaceful.
Here, one of the female models wears a navy-and-white quilted jumpsuit styled with a knit sweater over her shoulders. The quirky, youthful design sensibility was something missing from NYFW: Men’s that we didn’t know we needed — until now.
Throughout the presentation, models engaged in collective dances together, as seen above, playing off of Bode’s apparent theme of community, harmony, and, ultimately, love (a male and a female model were seen embracing each other during this dance set).
Bode’s style, both in form and presentation, is unique to menswear, although this lightheartedness and vibrancy in color, shapes, and patterns was just what we all needed amid our usual dark landscape with menswear. Of course, aside from Raf Simons’s love letter to New York.
By stepping away from dark, monochrome colors, Bode has given new life to menswear in New York.
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