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CORNÉ GABRIËLS
'Suit Suite' Collection Spring/Summer 2007
Classic garments, dress codes and dress behavior are what fascinate Corné Gabriëls.
His Spring/Summer 2007 collection ‘Suite Suit’ is based on one of the most conventional images of a man, this collection consists of fashion items inspired on a suit. The items
are nothing more than what they appear to be, they are only worn differently and details
are illuminated. This collection analyses the suit to its essence, in order to find new forms, within the anxious rules which comes with the different dress codes.
‘Suite Suit’ consists of shirts with outlines of a jacket or a necktie, that are transformed into abstract shapes in deep colours, a series of shawls with characteristic dress codes in it, combined with prints and a series of accessories in black and white, as if cut from a suit. The items are isolated so that the attention focuses more on the sensitive and frivolous side of it, than to the more distant and business side of what the suit normally stands for. The items refer to a suit, only through recognizable details, but the casual way of wearing, shows us that the man is more than just the carrier of the clothes.
The collection consists of three parts and you can read it as a letter or a poem with three verses, as the title implicates. An ode to power, but at the same time also to character and a honour to all men that dare show their feelings. Referring to the city and its builders and other workers, the clothes are casual and formal at the same time. The heartbeat of a
metropolis that goes on and on, the city that never sleeps. But once the man in his suit is inside his own environment, his own house, he feels silence and vulnerability. Stripped of power and status, you now can see the person behind it.
All photography © Peter Stigter
 
 
 
 
 
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