Random Identities Spring 2024 Menswear Puts the Focus on Awkward Cuts and Tailoring
Featuring limbless and faceless models in a lookbook that draws your attention to the clothes.
Stefano Pilati‘s Berlin-based label Random Identities doesn’t do fashion as fashion wants him to do. His collections, like Spring/Summer 2023 for example, subverted menswear traditions with kinks and sex, while back in 2019, we saw the designer delve into silhouettes drawn from 1980s archetypes. Such tropes appear again in the Spring 2024 menswear lookbook, a project that also steers away from the often polished and perfected world of clothing campaigns.
Instead, elements of Pilati (such as his penchant for chandelier earrings) take the focus as models are omitted in physical form from the photography. There are no faces, while others are missing their legs in addition to arms already covered in fabrics. It puts the focus on the clothes and draws you in to examine the products on offer.
And we notice many twisted touches: the opening number, a car coat, sits awkwardly on the shoulder as if it’s been raised and perched on top of the model’s shoulders. Pockets are placed far higher as a result, and the sleeves are elongated for another awkward finishing touch.
Elsewhere, quilted leather forms a cropped bomber jacket, sitting atop a tailored Harrington jacket and shorts that take their form from sartorial, pleated trousers. That jacket is seen again, showing us details like the zipper in the back that allows the wearer to change the shape of the piece, and alter how it sits on the body once more.
Workwear mixes with formalities time and time again: a boiler suit ensemble in a concrete hue utilizes dual pockets, zippers, and a rope belt while maintaining a sharp collar, neat buttoned cuffs, and a sophisticated drop to the leg portion, while another look presents a Miu Miu-esque shade of tan across a Harrington jacket paired with shorts fit for a Scout’s adventure.
The Spring 2024 menswear collection from Random Identities can be seen in the lookbook above. Find out more about the brand via its website.
In case you missed it, take a look at the SS24 collection from Sage Nation.
