You can take the boy out of Sydney, but you can’t take Sydney out of the boy. Josh Goot has relocated to New York from Australia, but he still sports his Tevas everywhere he goes, even in chilly Paris, where he showed his new Spring collection.
Goot’s model wears athletic Teva-style sandals with color-coordinated kneesocks in his new lookbook, and they give the lineup a stylized streetwise vibe. It’s a note he further accentuated by layering oversize tees on top of crisp button-downs and pairing boxy coats with nothing but a knit bodysuit. Take it apart, though, and what Goot has served up is, for the most part, a collection of not-quite-basic basics. In a season of multiple riffs on men’s cotton shirts, his come collarless and deeply cuffed or bibbed. Shirtdresses have undefined waists and extend nearly to the ankles. His suiting (nice in a faded-denim blue) is similarly man-size, but turn the jacket around and there’s a cutaway back. So, masculine and feminine. The femme part of the story was rounded out by ribbed mélange knits and
finer-gauge pieces with a bit of cling. Graphic, pieced-together slip dresses inspired by the morphology of butterfly wings were the most technically challenging element of the lineup.
Goot says he’ll be ready to present his collection in his adopted hometown next September.
