Public School Spring/Summer 2016.
Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow outdid themselves in the most sensational and spectacular way for their Spring 2016 Public School presentation that it's hard to put into words just how awe-inspiring the achievement actually is. It was a timeless collection that any woman could wear decades into the future and look as chic and progressive thinking as they do in 2016. The collection played up the Urban Nomadic idea that the duo may not have actually started but truly did develop into the current idea of what that vernacular of fashion is, that most everyone else is trying to ape and portray. This time out, they upped the haute caliber to the tenth power and sent out a collection that was as equally elegant and urbane as it was hip and urban. The pair said that they were envisioning their woman on far flung travels trying to find herself in doing so, that translated into a fluidity and softness that never felt wan or weak or timid. This is a woman who is equally strong in flowing layers as she is in the urban armor of hoodies and sweats and coats.
Osborne and Chow from Exit 1 showed that there was a new fashion forward vibe being followed, one that was most definitely more uptown than streetwise in it's approach. Yes, there was a distinctive sportif attitude that always permeates the Public School aesthetic, but here it was upcycled into a more polished configuration. Louche, liquid and languid were the words of the day, but that didn't mean drippy or amorphous. witness a puritanical and ascetic stretch of pure White at Exit No. 32 that functioned as a evening number but with a harder edged sportswear piece paired with it from the collection could be a minimal masterpiece for the Artsy set or could just as easily find itself in Southampton for a weekend soujourn. Couple this with the fact that the collection barely registered a whisper above the stark colour palette of Navy, Black, Grey and White interspersed with a punchy jolt of Scarlet, and the pieces could easily find themselves incorporated into a modern wardrobe and give a fresh and hip twist to what is already hanging out in one's closet.
The Public School dynamic duo showed the skills in this collection to give one the kind of frisson of seeing a bright and unique future for fashion and a strong and individualistic new voice among the throng of many that crowd the fashion landscape. Chow and Osborne have a distinctive and enthralling patois to their work that augers well for the faith shown them by the fashion Powers that be, what they decide to do with that voice and how that manage to manipulate it further into new and exciting permutations rests on their shoulders alone, one can only hesitate a guess with such an accomplished collection as this one here, that their future is set for greatness!
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