Sometimes London fashion seems like an endless stream of names and courses, but don’t let the fact that Trine Lindegaarde is an alumnus of the prestigious Royal College of Art (contemporaries: Lou Dalton, Katie Eary, Matthew Miller et al) make you think she might be boring or difficult. Her graduate collection is seriously FUN.
fashion156.com- styling by Guy Hipwell, photograph by Jayden Tang. All clothes Trine Lindegaarde.
Trine’s work features in fashion156′s fine new editorial- try to stop yourself thinking about that shirt and jumper combo, then imagine it on sale in Asos or Topman or wherever an you and everyone you know wanting to buy, buy, buy.
This shoot made me go back and look at her graduate collection. It’s great how she’s balanced the obviously statement (is it just me, or is there a real lack of ‘statement’ pieces for men around this season?) but restrained it in with wit and intelligence rather than throwing in everything sans kitchen sink.
Those proportions and colours are great too, bringing to (my) mind some kind of fantasy 70s camping trip and the exuberant, much-missed collections of Siv Stoldal.
There’s a LOT of new menswear labels launching at the moment, and more and more opportunities for graduate talents from the RCA, LCF, CSM and the rest of this country’s fashion colleges to set up on their own rather than be absorbed into a luxury label etc. MENSWEAR, naturally, be taking a look at some of our favourites over the coming weeks and months but for now, Trine’s super-cute, super-wearable and textured take on the great outdoors is taking over our minds. We hope some of these pieces make it into a shop somewhere, soon, and that nothing gets toned down for the (real) world!
