Huge down-padded coats: Main winter outerwear
We tell about the trends from the podium, which can be adapted for your wardrobe for the next six months. It is hard not to notice that all current fashion trends strictly follow the rule “the more, the better.” This also concerns the outerwear segment. Warm winter overseas jacket - clothing for all times, which this winter will be especially relevant. We tell where to look for it, what to wear and what to look for when buying.
How it all began
Unlike most things in this category, the date of the invention of the down jacket in the form to which we are accustomed is known: in 1936, the American Eddie Bauer created the Skyliner jacket. It is believed that he was pushed by a fishing trip that almost cost life. A man climbed a hill and felt a sleepy state - a symptom of an early stage of hypothermia, that is, hypothermia. Touching the back of his beloved woolen jacket, which had served him faithfully before, he understood that pieces of ice could be frozen on her so that she could be frozen to death. The catastrophe was avoided, and its brand exists to this day.
The attitude to the down jacket in Russia and in the West is different: for us it was always an exceptionally practical item of a winter wardrobe, to which there are practically no alternatives - not as expensive as a fur coat, and not as heavy as a sheepskin coat. A thing that was sold in any market in the 90s: at the beginning of the 2000s, there were probably nowhere in the world such a large number of schoolchildren in down jackets of sports brands, as in Russia.
On duty, huge puff-up turned out to be in the wardrobe and the workers, forced to work in the winter outdoors, and climbers. However, his popularity is due not only to professional clothing, but also to outrageous outfits of stars. Rihanna was one of the first to start wearing large-sized things, including jackets, though in her own provocative manner - with sandals and a lowered shoulder line. The last two memorable outlets are associated with the brilliant down jacket Raf Simons (as part of the course on blurring the boundaries between men's and women's clothing) and with the huge pink “cloud” of the young brand from Sweden Ella Boucht. Huge down-padded coats are the thing in which the paparazzi often caught actors in winter shooting. Surprisingly, the image in which they move from the trailer to the site, also influenced the spread of the main hit of the wardrobe of this winter.
How are down jackets back in fashion
The trend on overseas did not occur today or even a year ago. But if last winter you could see jackets like blankets except Moschino and Vetements - very diverse brands that somehow feel the spirit of the times, but this season even the brands far from the world of sportswear or street clothes showed like Tory Burch or Alexander McQueen. Asexuality, the blurring of the boundaries of gender, the desire to defend oneself in the conditions of a tough urban environment - all this drives the tendency to hypervolumes and hyperdimensions. To a greater degree changes relate to outerwear. Today we can say with confidence: if you buy a huge down jacket this winter, then the next one will not be left alone in the closet either.
An unprecedented image, which will surely remain in the history of 2016, is the exit in a red down jacket at the show of the first collection of Demny Gvasalia for Balenciaga. This photo is most often used by blogs and online publications as an illustration of the current trend. Marcque's Almeida demonstrated how to wear both a long beige “cushion” down jacket and a short, asymmetrical version of the color of furious fuchsia. Namely: boldly and calmly with other trendy things - for example, a denim dress, wide trousers and a ski jacket. DKNY has a black, free, but at the same time, down jacket of classic forms with a lacing decor. It is complemented by a dress with unusual cuts.
The image of Stella McCartney is a real example of how to make friends of a down-padded coat with a set of office things, like a shirt buttoned. Autumn-winter show Acne Studios was dedicated to the "alternative" 80th. Their version with a quilted jacket, sandals and leopard tights, although difficult to apply to real life, is still worthy of all attention. Brand with Russian roots A.W.A.K.E. also showed down jackets in the collection - unusual colors and with a rounded line of shoulders. Coupled with the Cossacks and midi-skirts with a tartan pattern, this is the most fashionable combination of the season.
What to wear
The safest option, which does not require much time to think about what to wear, is a blown huge down jacket below the knee. He still closes everything in the world and even a hoody can fit under him, a thick-knit shirt and sweater - perhaps even once. It is better to pay attention to the uncluttered concise options without a hint of a belt; The mass market this season managed to fuss up and release their versions. It is already possible to find down jackets of a deliberately large size both in the omnipresent Zara and in the cheerful Monki. Do not be afraid of the effect of "caterpillar" - quilted fanned stripes just have to be made carefully.
The rule that a down jacket can only look adequately with warm grotesque shoes or sneakers does not work anymore. Even if you ignore the shows, which prove that the combination of a dimensionless down jacket and shoes is more than successful, the combination with boots and socks, more suitable for the Russian winter reality, also looks practical and warmly fashionable.
Short puffy down jackets look unusual and unusual in the context of everyday Russian gray winter, but they also win against competitors. They mix with clothes as easily. Dresses in the style of "new renaissance", wide jeans, midi skirts - a lot of variations for combinations. Try replacing skin-tight skinny or pipes with flared pants - this will help create a balanced image. You can peek at examples from personal fashion. Notice how senior fashion editor of the I-D Julia Sarr-Jamois combines a young Chen Peng down jacket with cropped jeans.
Photo: Paramount Pictures, A.W.A.K.E. resort 2017, KM20, Voo Store
