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Beyond the fashion trend was the consideration for this season’s men’s editorial highlighting fall 2018. The two-person images and limited color palate are a fashion nod to the portraiture and representations seen in Barkley Hendricks’ work. The men’s fashion are a selection of collections and brands that are supporting communities and moving fashion forward within pedagogical opportunity, environmental platforms and challenging gender constructs.
Honduran born designer Carlos Campos has long been one of fashion’s favorite sons in New York. In 2017 with the partnership Honduran Government and private business in Honduras he opened the first design school, The Carlos Campos School of Fashion and Design.
The steadily ascending Descent of Thieves created by the creative duo Matteo Maniatty and Dres Lardo is a market conscious brand creating limited batch manufacturing, supporting boutique factories “the craft beer of fashion” and razor-cut sartorial statements. OPDNY by Nicole Ashley is a fashion tale manifesting somewhere between Tel-Aviv, Europe and New York. She took her shopping addiction and love for fashion into your own hands- literally re-working clothes with her now signature sequined blaze. These are clever ‘one of a kind fashion statements’ linked to sustainability and collectible vintage style.
NIHL is founded by artist and designer Neil Patrick Grotzinger, he utilizes iconic American symbols as a tool for subversion in a way that consistently challenges stereotypes which he simply describes as ‘masculine effeminacy’. This is the brand’s second season and collection highlighting a Swarovski partnership.
Order your copy of IRK Magazine’s MASTERS COLLECTION issue 7 to see Patrick Michael Hughes’s Men’s Fashion editorial in homage TO BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS.
Team Credits
Photographer
PATRICK MICHAEL HUGHES
Models Robby & Yaw at ANTI Management
Producer & Videographer David Sakover
Production Assistant Kevin Aportela-Flores
Video Editor Ani Novillo Astrada
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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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