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If the producers of the new Robocop reboot ever need a helping hand, they should give Italo Zucchelli a call. In the Calvin Klein Collection show for AW13 his signature blend between performance clothes and formalwear amalgamated to a sort of post-something 90s East Berlin cyber-electro aesthetic, fuelled by the designer’s faultless use of outdoor and sportswear elements as a kind of armour-like robotic formalwear. “I like to merge the two elements into something that is a hybrid but which is what I think we want to wear today. Our lives are fast so we want to be more relaxed in our environment and not think too much and not change so many times,” Italo told i-D after the show. With gloomy German newcomer Dominik Bauer opening the show and a Depeche Mode soundtrack setting a sinister mood, the Calvin Klein Collection man’s mission to break down the barriers of dress codes and the male uniform certainly seemed more aggressive than ever. And that’s a very good thing.
Text: Anders Christian Madsen
Photography: Mitchell Sams
