The CFDA Swarovski Award for Menswear nominee's addition to the Japanese brand's Designers Invitation Project takes inspiration from an unlikely source: late Italian artist and designer
Bruno Munari, whose photographs of European hipsters (and their square elders) in the thirties influenced the collection's combination of muted and bright colors. ("I just stumbled upon Munari's books at 192 Books on [NYC's] Tenth Avenue," Hamilton says, for those wanting to track them down.) The clothes also mix relatively clean design (a blue hoodie) with more forward-thinking construction, as in a cotton jacket with diagonally zippered chest pockets or an extended cardigan that Hamilton cites as a favorite. (The chambray shirts with rounded collars should get plenty of attention, too.) The line is due in stores later this month, but you can click here for an exclusive slideshow.
Tim Hamilton for Uniqlo reversible jacket, $59.50; cotton full-zip jacket, $59.50; color jeans, $49.50; chino pants, $39.50; chambray shirt, $39.50; full-zip hoodie, $39.50; V-neck cardigan, $39.50; available March 28 at Uniqlo, 546 Broadway, NYC, (917) 237-8811, uniqlo.com
PAUL L. UNDERWOOD
11:27 AM, March 12, 2008
Photo: Courtesy of Uniqlo
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