Burberry AW/09 Prorsum Pre-Collection

Look Book: Burberry Prorsum Pre-Collection

Season: Autumn / Winter 2009.10

Burberry Prorsums Pre-Collection, with its impeccably tailored suits, oversized coats, t-shirts detailed in historic imagery, warm jumpers, colors ranging from light gray, dark blue to black, will get you quite set for the upcoming season, counting the days 'till the full collection hits the stores.

With outerwear and trench-coats being the base of the collection, introducing materials like dishevelled velvet, is possibly preparing the customer for bigger role of already existing Burberry denim. Never the less even with half a century old inspiration for the upcoming season, classic lines are adjusted to needs of young and sophisticated buyer. And that classic line, is what these pieces, makes into real investment pieces, something longterm, not just for the moment.

“The season is about reinvention – redefining and re-modernising the core of what

Burberry stands for with our authentic British spirit and point of view.” – Christopher Bailey.

Check out the rest of the Burberry Autumn Winter pre-Collection Look Book under the cut, with a complete list of details, fabrics, colors and silhouettes implemented in these pieces:

SILHOUETTES

Outerwear: Oversized military trench coats, slouchy/rounded caban trench coats, drab military coats, trapeze line duster coats, slim cut sartorial chesterfields, drab a-line pea coats, voluminous wind cheaters

Trousers: Exaggerated carrot leg trousers

Shirting: Granddad collar shirts

Knitwear: Slim fit seamless knits, slim fit waffle knits, shrunken wool knits, oversized cables, long multi -gauge knits

DETAILS

Slim double breasted buttoning

Velvet top collars

Military collars

Burnished leather trench buckles

Heritage back-neck chain

Vintage archive back neck stamp

Multi gauge ribs

Washed velvet applications

Mother of pearl buttons

FABRICS

Mottled heritage gabardine

Military doeskin

Dishevelled velvet

Bonded vintage look cotton canvas

Suiting: Moleskin suiting, muted micro design suiting, shadow stripe suiting

Thorn-proof English micro tweed

Sculptural oversized herringbone

Super dry-hand shirting

Feather weight technical rip-stop

Light washed lambskin

Fine seamless merino silk

Seersucker cashmere

Compact washed wool

Fine gauge merino silk

COLOURS

Nutmeg, old stone, mole, trench, dark birch, pearl, light grey mélange, dark airforce green, black, white, muted tweeds, ink, metal blue, thistle blue, light metal, regiment red, dark grey mélange, dark tweeds

*Courtesy of Burberry