Maybe I’ve been listening to too much Cut Copy (I have), but the title of their album just sprung to mind when I found these press day images on my laptop of PETAR PETROV‘s wonderous a/w 09 collection.
So what looked like by-the-numbers PETROV on a catwalk (and even that’s a thing of wonder) up close appears to be much more nuanced. Navy and pink gloves in perfect leather. A powder-pink shirt under a hot pink knit. A FEW THINGS IN CHARTREUSE. Even CHARTREUSE SHOES, which you would be looking at now had my camera not died. Imagine them like this: similar to Raf’s S/S 09 Doctor Martens, in softer matte leather, and NEON. I’ve been toying with the idea of HEAD TO TOE NEON (monochrome, naturally) since Topman Design’s neon tracksuits this season, which of course sold out. It’s also something Carola Euler picked up on for her A/W 09 range, and of course Calvin Klein Collection S/S 09 as immortalised in about a thousand Spring biannuals.
But the idea of doing it in winter, against crisp whites… well, A/W clothes do go on sale in the height of Summer. That’s about justification enough for me.
Those gloves are beautiful. Acne had a small selection of similarly colored gloves, though more sporty in style, a number of years ago and I kick myself for not pouncing on them then.
love cut copy and the neon shirt/tonal jumpers. CHARTREUSE shoes? i am VERY excited. is it bstore stocking them?
They don’t normally stock him at b, but I will find out. Now that Doors is gone, I hope someone else will be selling Petar P! I will definitely be buying a few things from this collection…