Burberry presents menswear-focused collection during LFW

Riccardo Tisci showcased his first menswear-centered collection for Burberry during London Manner Week with a demonstration from within its flagship on Regent Road shop in London, reconfigured as a wandering terrain.

The autumn/winter 2021 menswear collection “gently challenges and subtly reinvents traditions, inviting freedom of expression,” explains Burberry, taking inspiration from connecting with the outdoors.

Burberry chief creative officer, Riccardo Tisci, said of the collection in the show notes: “For my 1st Burberry menswear-focused collection, I wanted to celebrate the liberty of expression. Enclosed indoors, I dreamt of the outside and its own beauty, fuelled by the very thought of the imagination that comes whenever we are together.

“With this dream in mind, I became fascinated with the widespread British craft and outdoor actions of the first 20th Century, when persons escaped to check out the unknown countryside. They produced communities with a deep respect for nature and the outdoors and looked forward to another full of possibility. I was not only drawn to the artistry of their craft, colours and shapes, but also to their strong good sense of camaraderie and friendship.”

Burberry explains that the dresses for autumn/winter 2021 have been “engineered to reflect action and activity” with pleats, panels and fringes, and layered items “morph unexpectedly on your body”.

Tailoring has been given a sense of twisted classicism, with a good slim-fit tailored coat featuring exaggerated lapels, worn with split tailored shorts more than metallic mesh cycling shorts. While panel details transform an English-fit go well with in wool ramie, and classic-in shape trousers and tailored shorts in grain de poudre wool, alongside pleated dresses and skirts.

Outerwear is key through the entire collection with reconstructed varsity jackets featured in plongé leather and natural cotton cashmere with ‘B’ insignias, and duffle coats given today's revise with striped wool and tactile faux-fur fabrications, cropped silhouettes, bullion fringing, and exaggerated reconstructed pockets.

The Burberry trench is evolving for autumn/winter with the iconic appear combined with the Harrington jacket, very long at the front and short at the back. There was also today's juxtaposition across knitwear and outerwear with the V-throat of a sweater viewed on a trench coating, while a double-breasted panelled exists on a jumper.

The Burberry animal kingdom, a signature residence code, is once more revisited through prints and shapes, as a “nod to the wilderness and the creatures within”. Deer motifs inspire the silhouettes of knitted beanies, while footwear and sneakers on moulded soles have been sculpted to resemble hooves and actually hoods on the shaggy coats include ears.

Accessories featured over-sized totes slung above shoulders, seen in faux fur, leather and the Thomas Burberry Monogram print, and new iterations of the Pocket Tote spouse and children made their debut, including a good leather bum carrier and backpack for wanderers, carrying umbrellas and picnic blankets. Scarves had been styled as belts, large whistles adorn zips and leather-clad carabiner charms, and lambskin bear-motif charms embossed with a emblem graphic were mounted on bags.

There is also a tonal and rich color palette, with Burberry beige, bark brown, oxblood burgundy, and city greys, seen together with shades of pale blue and pink.

Tisci, said: “This collection is an homage to the partnership between humanity and characteristics, where we are able to break free and get together to discover new types of expression. It’s for many who are defining their own path, whose strength and energy have inspired this Burberry collection.”

While females were included in the demonstration, Burberry added that each of the models was wearing menswear products.

The presentation also sees Tisci collaborating with British music supervisor, composer and arranger, Bridget Samuels, as the executive music producer for the autumn/winter 2021 menswear presentation soundtrack. Tisci and Samuels commissioned British composer and multi-instrumentalist, Peter Gregson, to create a reworking of his composition ‘Sequence (Four)’ exclusively for the demonstration.