Descendant of Thieves Spring 2019
The new international set is a group of young people who lead their lives following DJs form city to city. Ibiza, Mykonos, Croatia and the Mayan Riviera specifically Tulum. This jet set crowd journey from NYC, London, Milan, Paris, and Barcelona. They travel to party and to unplug in a natural relaxed setting bringing their global style savvy with them. This was the inspiration for the spring 2019 collection of Descendant of Thieves by Dres Lardro. Creative Director and co founder Matteo Maniatty presented an eye full of rich colors and patterns in pink, red, blue, yellow and golden hues form natural foliage to striking geometric color blocks.. This was another standout presentation collection for the brand at New York Men’s Fashion Week.
The narrative of the collection continued with how this stylish flock infused their look with ques to Mexican culture, particularly the religious motifs, Day of the Dead celebrations and Our Lady of Guadalupe while embracing laid back beach culture.
The Descendant of Thieves Look this season would be well suited for any high-end resort or spring event. A note worthy look was a tailored light gray cotton suit with white dots, was paired with a vibrant hibiscus blue, red and olive hibiscus camouflage print shirt ,dots were key in this collection against rich foliage. Relaxed tailored ensemble looks still carry forward for Spring 2019 as seen in a suit, with shorts in a lush salmon toile de jouy with the brands signature bias binding in gold. Toile de jouy was a real statement this season for the brand, but what would spring 2019 be with out a leopard print pair of shorts, a look IRK took note of in London during the men’s collections. Zip front jackets, transformable pieces and numerous layered styles were fearlessly patterned and partnered over knee length pieces and mid thigh grazing shorts. The collection also highlighted a variation in texture in some very strong colored rain wear in yellow and gold.
The strength of Descendant of Thieves is it’s pure quality product, in the tradition a highly crafted item not wanting to over extend itself, nor add more product to a product dense world however, IRK wishes there was even more…perhaps a larger collection on a runway filling the eyes of an already full house of admirers.
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Patrick Michael Hughes is a fashion and decorative arts historian. He writes about fashion culture past and present making connections to New York, London and Copenhagen's fashion weeks with an eye toward men's fashion. He joined IRK Magazine as a fashion men's editor during winter of 2017.
He is often cited as a historical source for numerous pieces appearing in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, LVMH, Conde Nast, Highsnobiety and others. His fashion career includes years as a fashion reporter/producer of branded content for the New York local news in the hyper digital sector. Patrick's love of travel and terrain enabled him to becoming an experienced cross-country equestrian intensively riding in a number of locations in South America Scandinavia,The United Kingdom and Germany. However, he is not currently riding, but rather speaking internationally to designers, product development teams, marketing teams and ascending designers in the US, Europe and China.
Following his BA in the History of Art from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York he later completed graduate studios in exhibition design in New York. it was with the nudge and a conversation in regard to a design assignment interviewing Richard Martin curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art he was encouraged to consider shifting his focus to the decorative arts with a concentration in fashion history and curation.
Patrick completed graduate studies 17th and 18th century French Royal interiors and decoration and 18th century French fashion culture at Musée Les Arts Decoratifs-Musée de Louvre in Paris. Upon his return to New York along with other classes and independent studies in American fashion he earned his MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from the Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Design Museum program in New York. His final specialist focus was in 19th century English fashion and interiors with distinction in 20th century American fashion history and design.
Currently, he is an Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons School of Design leading fashion history lecture-studios within the School of Art and Design History and Theory,
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