Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Looking to a bright future, Paul Smith’s autumn/winter’ 18 collection escapes to a more peaceful and positive place with dreamlike colours and motifs, fantastical embroidery and a softening of traditional sartorial codes.

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

With tailoring forever at the heart of Paul Smith, the collection celebrates the suit and reasserts its relevance. Confident statement suits are presented for both men and women. In the opening look smooth satin lapels roll into dense pleats with jacquard wool sleeves woven with dancing fairies. On single pieces, houndstooth is panelled alongside Prince of Wales check and leather juxtaposed with hardy British tailoring cloths. The added length in jackets is a nod to Paul’s own past when in the Eighties he led a confident movement to relax the suit, again reasserting its relevance.

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Muted colour builds to a crescendo of bright red. Illustrator Edmund Dulac inspires a romantic palette of midnight blues, deep purples and other jewel-tones. Painterly prints bring a much-needed sense of optimism and respite from world woes and are delivered in other-worldly psychedelic florals and ethereal moonlit landscapes. Of particular prominence in the collection is the Dreamer print, seen most vividly in the intricacy of woven lambswool and mohair knitwear.

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection

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