©Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY
Discover Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY‘s Spring Summer 2020 Mind’s Instruction collection, that explores the confusion and the pressure of modern times – the constant stop-starts of progression and regression happening in tandem, presented on June 8th, during London Fashion Week Men’s.
SPRING SUMMER 2020 MENSWEAR COLLECTIONS
“The body of work that is LOVERBOY SS20 erupted beneath violent pressure; as a diamond under heat. Formed in the eye of a storm, or the centre of a furnace, Charles Jeffrey proposes these clothes as physical, visceral responses to societal change. In first considering human shortcomings, Jeffrey explores too the human potential.
New pattern-cutting techniques, geographic and gestural, become a kind of visual exploration of the civil consciousness of Jeffrey’s generation. Seersucker suiting and featherweight jacquards, referencing armour and civil service uniforms, speak to the need for both freedom and protection. Opal blue silk column dresses appear disarmingly serene; the contradictory detailing of military jackets slung across them. Across the collection lie brutal, intricately layered rips and tears – or are they fault lines…?
Returning to the ideas of consciousness and confusion: The literal broken records of our soundtrack vibrate with questions. How, then, to make sense of the extremity of modern living? Perhaps peace can still be found in the beautiful and the unexplained. The enduring wonder of the human psyche, or the secret mystery of music. Joining us in The British Library tonight – physically, in spirit, and through the collections surrounding us – are some of the great thinkers and feelers who, to LOVERBOY, incite belief.“
Images Courtesy of © Starworks Group / Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY
