Spotlight: Givenchy’s Pre-Spring 2016 Menswear Collection...

For his Pre-Spring menswear venture—a season complementary to his Resort women’s showing—Riccardo Tisci imagined a one-stop shop for Givenchy’s male customer. For day, he presented sweatshirt casuals in bold graphics in line with his collections past: The roaring Rottweilers of Fall 2011 have become baboons, while the graphics of his recent Fall 2015 menswear lineup were reimagined in an acid green color. (Both these looks were worn with snap-front skirts—not for the wallflower gents out there.) Tisci also mined his denim archive, offering light-wash, distressed separates with leather trim—items that his cult of young fans will swoon over, if they don’t snap up a holey logo sweatshirt (seen last season sans distressing) first. 

For more formal occasions, Tisci crafted suiting with military references, of the legitimate and underground kind. Army staples translated to olive green suiting with utilitarian pockets, while the Sicilian Mafia in all their pinstriped, zoot suit styling served as the inspiration for a series of linear suits in black, charcoal, and ivory. In short, there’s a lot here to love for Givenchy’s fans both old and new.

Exclusively for Style.com. Photos by Givenchy.

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