Not long after Tommy Ton landed at Deveaux, the New York menswear brand added womenswear to its offering. The line quickly began outpacing the men’s, probably because it falls somewhere along the Eileen Fisher–The Row continuum, and there’s a lot of interest in the polished ease of that minimalist aesthetic at the moment. With men, streetwear still dominates, despite talk of the revival of tailoring.
For the guy who’s aging out of the streetwear look (waiting in line to buy drops of sneakers and T-shirts is kids’ stuff, no?), Ton and his co-designer, Andrea Tsao, have a few compelling propositions. One is their first-ever print, a swirling marble on silk that they cut into boxy button-downs with strong collars. Ton said the print came from his interest in “curated interiors.” Another, a navy silk jumpsuit accompanied by a matching robe coat, is informed by interiors, too, in the way that it telegraphs an enviable sense of relaxed composition. The jumpsuit would make a fine addition to the womenswear collection.
At the beginning, there was more crossover between Deveaux’s menswear and womenswear, but as the collections have grown, they’ve diversified. One thing the gals got this season that the guys would surely be into: the label’s new tailored jeans. The chalky-white denim coat they did put in the lineup will only get better as it softens and ages.
