The Oliver Spencer Summer Collection sees the British designer look towards Cuba and Colombia for riffs on classic summer silhouettes
Oliver Spencer might be most readily associated with Britishness – his career began with a stall on London’s Portobello Market and his subsequent eponymous label is synonymous with British tailoring and craft – though a new summer collection sees the menswear designer look further afield, towards the colours and architecture of Cuba and Colombia.
Designed after a recent trip to the countries, Spencer looked towards Cuba’s distinct menswear culture as starting point – a longtime fascination of the designer – in particular, the pleated guayabera shirt and its mix of ‘decorative elements and utility‘. Here, riffs on the style arrive in the designer’s typically undone style, largely crafted from organic cotton and linen.
The collection is photographed in Cartagena, a Colombian port city on the country’s northern coastline that Spencer had visited in the run-up to the collection. ‘I’ve tried to represent the bright sun-hit façades with slubby textural linens, while incorporating accents of vibrant colours, which is such a facet of Colombian style,’ he says.
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