Perhaps one of the safest collections that Raf Simons has put out for Jil Sander, he sent out boys styled in the image of the artist Tsuguharu Foujita with his signature bowl cut hair and circular glasses. The palette is starkly monochrome with the occassional pops of pale pastels. A good number of pieces were printed with drawings by Foujita. Stripping off the embellishment, we see a classic Jil Sander minimalism, well cut suits, pants and shirts in a monochrome palette. The collection is perhaps more Foujita-themed than inspired. The pieces are easy and the collection as a whole stylisitically unchallenging; pure Jil sander you might even say. It will surely translate well into showroom sales in a time when stores become ever more conservative for their buys. But the question is, how many Jil Sander white shirts and black pants does one really need?
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