针织羊毛衫，半军事风格的简单男装，带犯人编号的连帽针织面料套头衫，带有一些文艺气质，又不乏男人野性魅力的时装。Slick cuts. Subtle detail. Masculine minimalism. Pure schoolboy. Military sportswear. Fine knits. Raw edges. Think Marlon Brando in ‘The Wild One’ with sharp silhouettes.
For recent Autumn/Winter 2008 collection, Hans Christian Madsen brings us an old mugged photographs of criminals dating back to the 1950’s, certainly the time where the Mafioso were most active.
Hans Christian Madsen is a Danish born designer who graduated from the Royal College of Art in menswear design in 2007. He has been able to portray and develop a personality that crashes between an idea for social avant-garde and the traditional Scandinavian knitted and weaving techniques which are typically produced for knitwear. In his graduate collection last year, his enjoyment from references of functional and aesthetics of military workmanship in workwear and uniforms and the limited colour pallette stemmed him into production a collection of a chic schoolboy chino folded pant with superfuturistic voyage of Robocop meeting Martin Margiela. Cross-front weaves with dark military style boots, gray long wavy contoured overcoats and dark black over-sized wool cardigans certainly matches Hans contemporary concern for deconstruction within his designed garments.
