The Collection - Topshop Unique Spring Summer 2007
For this season’s Unique collection, work-wear is engineered in soft tailored fabrics, offset by voluminous vivid silk and lightest cotton layers. From a striped-back utilitarian aesthetic, emerges a simple elegance.
Dungarees, shirt dresses and boiler suits in crumpled chambray canvas have functional brass fastenings and are central to this relaxed, understated collection. Opened side pockets appear on long, floor-skimming skirts and artist’s smocks, while a harder edge is introduced through black cut-away swimwear and geometric placement prints. Muted shades of tobacco, chalk-white and sand are highlighted by lime, apricot and vermillion. Industrial chain necklaces cross open necklines, countered by neutral covered leather platforms.
Typifying the collection’s look, a structured blush-pink dress of coated cotton is followed by an oversized shirt with rolled sleeves and masculine lightweight trousers. Dresses remain key in dungaree and pinafore shapes in salmon, optic white, and navy.
A scarlet, glazed linen pleated swing coat and mushroom silk all-in-one offer a new sophistication as a grosgrain floor-length skirt and pin-tucked blouse echo the central work-wear theme.
The Collection – Topman Design Spring Summer 2007
Topman Design changes direction this season and approaches spring summer with a clean, modern aesthetic. The show edits together pieces from three trends,
St Germain, Radical and White Riot reworking them to give an overall contemporary sportswear feel. The trends are subtly linked through use of key fabrics, prints and intensities of certain colours.
St Germain takes inspiration from the youthful left bank of post war Paris. Silhouettes are fuller with lightweight Macs adding volume. Tailoring is unstructured in navy blues, stones and flat greys. Cropped jackets and double pleat shorts are a staple for the season and are seen here in jersey and cord. Twin pleat full trousers are worn with washed down button vests, resting on the smart side of casual.
Radical absorbs neon brights, prints and graphics from skate culture of the mid 80’s. Shorts are long to the knee in sports fabrics such as Tyvek and over-printed Nylon. Slubby jersey tees are oversized and printed with abstract shapes. A signature X print stems from this trend and adorns several pieces throughout the collection including cropped Macs, shirts and accessories.
White Riot is a fresh, less austere take on the Goth rock look of A/W with the focus on polka dot print and palettes of black white and pink. Tailored shorts with matching jackets in pastels are worn with Trompe de l’oeil tees and fine knits are overprinted with optic-crosses.
All trends are accessorised with a mix of raw-edged canvas ankle boots in different colour ways with matching rucksacks and sports holdalls. Hair is held back by jersey studded head-bands, or hidden under layered sun hats surf-punk style.
Note to Editors:
Topman Design is now in it’s 4th season of showing. The last three seasons have been shown as part of the MAN show, a joint collaboration between Topman and Fashion East which gives menswear designers the opportunity and support to show in London.
Topman Design is available to buy at the Oxford Circus Flagship, Manchester Arndale, on-line at topman.com, Selfridges London, La Foret Tokyo, Opening Ceremony NY, Sweden and Singapore. It will also be available in Moscow when the store launches on November 3rd
The collection will be filtered in to stores in three phases, the first hitting stores at the end of January.
