Movin’ On Up: Europe’s Designers Turn to Tailoring, but Not Dad Style

LONDON — Get smart. That’s what designers, brands and consumers want. Whether they’re fighting their way to work on public transportation, readying for a wedding, or taking the spaniel for a stroll, today’s men are looking for smart, tailored pieces they can wear with the hoodies, tracksuits and sneakers already brimming from their drawers and closets. For fall, London designer Martine Rose said she’s taken “real formalwear and thrown it on its head. So we have ruffled prom shirts in really oversize silhouettes, and we’ve done tailoring — but in latex. Actually, the punks were really quite smart if you think of Joe Strummer and even Johnny Rotten — they used to wear tailoring a lot.” Rose said there is definitely an “uptake in tailoring, but not necessarily to look smart. It is not how your dad would wear tailoring, but how you would wear a tailored jacket with a tracksuit bottom or something. There really is this move toward tailoring, but it is really taking it and making it your own — integrating it into your wardrobe and not viewing it as a special, formal thing.” This season, Rose is collaborating with Farah to mark the British brand’s 100th anniversary, and she’s worked

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