Fashion Nerds

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Object record

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.

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