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The caber toss – the Celtic sports discipline in which you fling a huge tree trunk – sadly wasn’t a part of Thom Browne’s take on the Scottish Highland Games for Moncler Gamme Bleu. But between the elaborate snowy woodland set scattered with speared suits of armour and the soundtrack to Braveheart, we couldn’t have asked for more. Winter was certainly coming, as Kit Harington would have it, and while Browne has actually never been to Scotland he had chosen to use the country as a backdrop for a collection devoted entirely to tartan. “I wanted to play with Scottish tartans. I have my own registered tartan. But I loved playing with the guys in the kilts and all the details,” Browne told i-D after the show. From cloaks to parkas and gilets, it was a collection that excelled in outerwear – as any Moncler collection should – and added the theatrical touch of Browne to a season that’s fast devoting itself to checks and their kins.
Text: Anders Christian Madsen
Photography: Mitchell Sams
