Stefano Pilati must be one of the most stylish male fashion designer in recent times. He has always embodied the idea of the YSL man that he himself has crafted, relaxed tailoring with a pinch of razor sharp edge thrown in and worn with ineffable ease. I'm particularly enamoured by this picture of him taken with Melanie Ward on the streets of Paris, layered in a curious but harmonious ensemble of a grey chalk stripe blazer with white capri pants over leggings, a grey scarf a twirled around the neck and a piece of thin jersey fabric wrapped around the waist. The components when considered individually are menswear staples that can easily be found in a good wardrobe or in shops, but when put together, a game of juxtaposing and decontextualizing is played, everything tied together with subtle shifts of grey accented with accessories in warm and cool tones. What I find so attractive about his style is its ungraspability, it brushes at the edges of so many established styles in the vast continuum of fashion but itself yet to be named.
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