Cozette McCreery and Sid Bryan had boxers on the brain — not only the fighters in the ring, but also the namesake underwear, and a 1985 poster of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol preparing for a punch-up.
Basquiat — and his wardrobe of roomy clothing — was a big influence on this fun, upbeat collection that was filled with intarsia knits and blanket wraps with arty doodle patterns, and oversize wooly hoodies that overwhelmed models’ muscular frames.
McCreery said backstage that Bryan himself had hand-knitted the finale’s dramatic floor-skimming robes, which were made from a type of unspun wool that was later graffiti-punched with designs like gold crowns and colorful lightning bolts.
The collection had its moments of delicacy, too, in the form of diaphanous knitted lace robes and sweaters in shades of red and blue, while a leopard print made its way around the collection as a micro pattern on cotton shorts with thick boxer-inspired waistbands, or picked out in blue sequins across black sweaters.
