Kenzo A/W 2015

Male models wearing clothes from Kenzo AW15 collection — (Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Mood board: ‘UFOs are coming back’. Carol Lim and Humberto Leon scrawled this hopeful message down a safety orange cape, its symbolic typeface echoed throughout in the alien heraldry splashed across a collection dedicated to a youth tribe of urban, bohemian heroes. To the sounds of Saint Etienne, Kenzo’s boys marched snugly past in striped ombré knits layered with a khaki-tinged gamut of hooded, patch-pocket outerwear.

Scene setting: Kenzo invited guests to the still-unfinished Philharmonie de Paris, designed by Jean Nouvel. The models paraded around the glass-clad corridors of the symphonic concert hall, as guests faced the Parisian skyline sat on bright custom-built stools and benches.

Finishing touches: Kenzo has tended towards a Buffalo reference in the shoe department before, and this season’s lace-ups and chunky boots were an ingenious jigsaw puzzle of coloured leathers patch-worked together with giant lacing or contoured leather strips.

Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans

Male models dressed in Orange and black with stripes jackets from the Kenzo AW15 collection

Male models wearing patterned jackets from the Kenzo AW15 collection

Male models wearing black, green and patterned jackets from the Kenzo AW15 collection