Another Version of Myself - Part II

October 12, 2022

le PÈRE, a clothing label as much as a creative community, releases their second collection, titled, “Another Version of Myself - Chapter II” in collaboration with Quartier creators Bráulio Amado, Cherry Kim & Noah Baker today. The collection will include three capsules, one per creator, with the final capsule dropping in February 2023. As we've come to learn of the brand, each piece and each capsule is an opportunity, providing a rich canvas for artists to explore their work through the medium of garments.

For Chapter II, le PÈRE welcomes you to sit (or stand) with worn out loafers on your relatives upholstered couch. The collection embodies moody Americana, with touches of Midwestern aesthetics, from blues and earthy tones to typographic textures and sports-inspired graphics. In the lookbook, models are draped in aesthetics reminiscent of a Southern grandfather's home with religious mementos and mid-century architecture.

Says the creators, "Each collection, released seasonally and in capsules, explores the tension between the fearless and the sensual attitudes of masculinity, revealing sports-inspired silhouettes and proportions, layered with dramatic and emotive sensibilities that elevate the codes of traditional streetwear."

Text by India Espy-Jones
Photos by Ricky Alvarez

Braulio Amado's capsule is the first to launch. He intends to reinvent le PÈRE’s “footballer” (soccer) character in his own childlike interpretation of the graphic: A pink footballer with a ball for a head which, playfully, fell off. 70s and 80s football jerseys inspire the shape of the shirts with a boxy silhouette and cropped fit. His new traditional style includes sweatshirts and t-shirts, manufactured in a luxurious Italian fabric, but draped readily for your next practice.

Cherry Kim, inspired by Korean wrestling matches of childhood memories with her father and grandfather, will be the second capsule to release in November 2022. The nostalgic homage of a “wrestler” graphic will be hand drawn on organic cotton t-shirts, hoodies, and sweatpants in tan, white, and red, some with a le PÈRE logo stenciled on. The collection, however, is not limited to athletic wear. Le PÈRE introduced trousers and button downs in the Cherry Kim capsule to add formality and structure, as a father would, to the release.

Noah Baker, as the third and final capsule to be released in the collection, offers a research of texture and typography in the use of weather maps for jackets and shirts in opposite colorways. His designs, inspired by the barometric pressure systems, inspire a vibrant pattern of repeated prints on iridescent fabric to be released in February 2023, as the third capsule to complete the collection.

In addition to the three-part launch, an eponymous fragrance will be released in November 2022 “to stimulate all of the senses,” and we can already smell it.

The three capsule collections will be available on lepere.com and neimanmarcus.com.

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