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Blue Collar: Off-White 2216 men's collection

Virgil Abloh delivers messages through his clothes, ehether you pick up on them or not. With Blue Collar, the littel of his latest men's collection, you immediatly know what you're in for. "I call it Blue Collar, but I actually want to make white-collar clothes" Abloh, who likened being shortistted for the LVMH Prize to losing his training wheels, expresses how he is committed to shifing

Off-White from streetwear to menswear. Getting to that position while remaining an anti-establishment designer allows him the latitude to be impulsive at times, hence the last-minute decision to produce custom lapel pins that read “Working Class,” the latter word dangling from the former like a forsaken charm.

There are larger, long-planned statements, too: Abloh sourced vintage Royal Mail uniforms and tacked panels of their blue oxford cloth to matte black tailored coats and shirts, often exactly where they would have appeared had the uniforms remained intact. For every demotion of formality, he promotes the ordinary, securing patches of paint-scuffed denim with monogrammed gold studs, for instance.

The pants begin as classic chinos yet undergo enough modifications—such as a dropped stitch giving way to an inverted pleat—that they break through the realm ofbasic. While some cool white-collar guy may end up purchasing the fasntstically distressed leather bomber, Abloh doesn't  abandon the entry-level tees that once served as his foundation.

 

Misaligned at the seams like a sartorial glitch, they feature a toll-fredd number for a fictional excuvation service. Abloh purchased that number (1-855-OFF-WHITE, naturally).

Dial it and you very well might find a message from him on the other end.

 

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