Georges Wendell Men’s Spring 2022
Pierre Kaczmarek’s brush with serious tailoring didn’t last long. A year after reviving the Georges Wendell label, he is already bypassing its tailoring heritage with the kind of outfit collage that made the fame of Afterhomework, his previous brand which went dormant last year.
“It wouldn’t be honest to say I’m doing tailoring, given that I don’t even know how to knot a tie properly,” he confessed during a preview.
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For his first season on schedule, he came up with a breezy wardrobe of relaxed outfits for men and women that could also pass for a spin at the office. He imagined tourists in Paris, or those stuck at work like himself.
Splicing together a men’s wear repertoire of classic poplin shirts, old-school suits and circa-2000 denim styles, Kaczmarek offered an archly contemporary take on work-appropriate attire. Hitting the spot were printed board shorts; jeans with wavy side seams that created just the right amount of bagginess in the leg; a perfecto blended with a denim jacket; grandpa cardigans with intricate open-weave designs; and shirts printed with vintage newspaper adverts or cocktail recipes, their hems forming the W for Wendell.
An M livened up the hems of an oddly serious “Madame Wendell” trouser suit, the only work-appropriate option in her wardrobe of barely there dresses, micro-length pleated skirts and swim tops.
Shot in an upscale Parisian pad complete with a rooftop terrace and indoor swimming pool, the overall mood of his film and lookbook was one part hustle culture — folding work life and leisure times without distinction into one continuous schedule — and one part #hotvaxsummer, all 100 percent palatable right now.
Launch Gallery: Georges Wendell Men's Spring 2022
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