J.W. ANDERSON: Have Your Cake & Eat It for Menswear Sprign 2023 MFW

J.W. Anderson delivered a “have your cake and eat it mood” for its Menswear Spring 2023 show at the Milan Fashion Week runway and here are some highlights!

“To underline the illusion of modernity he cast Rembrandt as the protagonist in his fashion play via intarsia reproductions on knitwear and prints on sneakers featuring the artist’s leery etching, Self-portrait in a Cap, Wide-eyed and Open-mouthed, from 1630. The nearly 400 year-old selfie stressed that while technology upgrades, the way in which we use it stays pretty constant. All these devices—along with industrial gloves, a stock photo of an apple-eating kid, and hardware-store door hinges—were placed within or adjacent to borderline generic contemporary canons of clothing. This created a have your cake and eat it result: you could wear Anderson-issued versions of 2023 uniform, and through those in-your-face interventions included within them simultaneously signal that you understood the narrative was entirely contingent—just a wearable moment in time.” – Vogue