Ensemble
spring/summer 2016
Materials
wool, cotton, silk, wood, mother-of-pearl, leather, metal
House / label
Thom Browne
Collection
spring/summer 2016
Archive reference
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 700748
Behind the design
Thom Browne reworked the proportions of the conventional suit and pieced its branch pattern by hand. He compared the intricate method to intarsia inlay. The spring/summer 2016 collection translated motifs associated with Japan into gray, combining a familiar masculine uniform with meticulous construction and an unusually pictorial surface.

