A warped take on officewear, courtesy of the latest menswear

Three men in A/W 2022 menswear in revolving office door

‘After Hours’ menswear: Aditya wears jacket, £2,205, by Fendi. Top, £4,060; trousers, £1,150, both by Valentino. Shoes, £315, by Grenson. Gloves, £490, by Valentino Garavani Freddie wears jacket, £2,090; trousers, £890, both by Gucci. Boots, £450, by Camperlab. Hat, price on request, by Noel Stewart. Gloves, £520, by Paula Rowan Otto wears jacket; kilt, both price on request, by Dolce & Gabbana. Boots, £1,400, by Prada.

(Image credit: Photography by Dorothy Sing Zhang, styling by Ben Schofield)

By Jack Moss

published 22 November 2022

Contributions from

Dorothy Sing Zhang – photographer, Ben Schofield – stylist

An open locker with a lit-up birthday cake inside; a dropped house plant; the otherworldly glow of a vending machine – a new photo series, featuring the best menswear pieces of A/W 2022, offers a surreal riff on the working uniform set amid an after-hours office-scape.

Photographed by London-based film and image-maker Dorothy Sing Zhang – whose work often features figures set in uncanny takes on quotidian settings, from suburban living rooms to aeroplane cabins – and styled by Ben Schofield, the series features in the December 2022 Issue of Wallpaper* (on international newsstands now). Sing Zhang has previously been named one of Wallpaper’s emerging photographic rising stars.

After Hours: A/W 2022 menswear by Dorothy Sing Zhang

Man in suit with broom sat on floor in carpark — Jacket, £2,500; shirt, £700; trousers, £1,105, all by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. Boots, £450, by Camperlab

Titled ‘After Hours’, the series offers a playful directive on re-balancing your work-life wardrobe, transforming traditional officewear with flourishes of glamour – whether the addition of an elegant Valentino Garavani evening glove to a classic double-breasted jacket and pinstripe trouser, a line of studs along the side seam of an otherwise formal grey wool trouser by Gucci, or an intricately embroidered jacket by Kim Jones at Dior combined with a striped beret by rising British milliner James Pink.

Man in suit in office turnstyle — Jacket, £2,359; shirt, £490; tie, £160; trousers, price on request, all by Celine Homme by Hedi Slimane. Gloves, £490, by Valentino Garavani

Man with jumper around neck with candle — Jumper (around neck), £550, by Missoni. Coat, £960, by Louis Vuitton

Man sat on pile of chairs in grey coat — Jacket £3,200; turtleneck, £1,050; trousers, £620; boots, £1,400; gloves, £650, all by Prada

Man on floor with house plant — Top, €450; trousers, €850; ring, €295, all by Balenciaga. Boots, £1,400, by Prada. Necklace, £1,100, by Gucci. Hat, price on request, by Noel Stewart. Gloves, £490, by Valentino Garavani

Man in leather jacket pressing button for lift — Jacket, £2,200; turtleneck, £465, both by Paul Smith

Man at table by vending machine — Jacket, price on request; jacket (worn underneath), £5,200; shirt, £830; trousers, £1,150, all by Dior. Boots, £1,400, by Prada. Hat, £95, by James Pink Studio

Man by open locker with birthday cake inside — Jacket, £800, by Herno. Trousers, £2,360, by Gucci. Shoes £1,120, by John Lobb. Veil, price on request, by Noel Stewart

Models: Aditya at Next Models, Freddie at Models 1, Otto Fuchs. Casting: Sam Franco. Grooming: Mike O’Gorman at Saint Luke Artists. Photography assistants: Conor Rollins, Anqi Liu. Fashion assistants: Dominik Radomski, Kit Swann.

A version of this article appears in the December 2022 Entertaining Issue of Wallpaper*, available in print, on the Wallpaper* app on Apple iOS, and to subscribers of Apple News +. Subscribe to Wallpaper* today

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Jack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper*, joining the team in 2022. Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines, he has also contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Mr Porter’s The Journal and more, while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.

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