This Heart’s on Fire points us to the Autumn/Winter 2010 Collection of Yohan Serfaty. The Casablanca native feels he can bridge the gap between womenswear and menswear through his seemingly androgynous designs. According to Yohan, “I do not make a difference between men and women. I believe that in our current era women are affirming their masculinity, men, on the other hand, are very much in touch with their feminine side. In some kind of way they’re joining each other in the middle. Nevertheless they still keep their personal mystery.”
For Yohan’s Men Autumn/Winter 2010 Collection, we get a good glimpse of his knack for constructing leather outerwear. Included are long coats and jackets that are pieced with both extreme detailing and minimalism. Some of the outerwear are smooth and streamlined, bearing almost no stitches or pockets. Other coats however, have dramatic details such as high collars, sherpa flaps, and other obvious trimmings, pockets, and stitchings. There’s something both abstract and simple to the way the collection is presented, and it could go back to Yohan’s thoughts on the male and female form, where rigidity and subtlety can exist in both sexes.
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Source: This Heart’s on Fire