Jeremy Scott was high off a face-to-face with Dame Joan Collins at his London book party last week when he sat down to talk about his new resort 2023 menswear. After two years of COVID lockdowns, international travel is once again a fact of life for the Moschino creative director. After swinging London he was headed to Milan to prep his women’s resort and men’s spring offerings. Travel is the theme he took up this time around, but make no mistake, this isn’t a collection of easy-wearing in-flight sweatsuits. “I was thinking about the late ’60s, when travel was still glam and had more punch to it,” he confirmed.
For the Moschino fan who’s resumed air hopping around the Mediterranean and other sunny locales there are lively suits and separates in a trippy Op art pattern and a hand-drawn destination print. Matching sets (vest and bermudas; windbreaker, button-down, and short-shorts) are modeled with a full complement of travel bags. Really driving home the collection’s getaway vibes is the array of sarongs, which Scott likes for both casual situations and more formal ones. In the first case, he suggests a sarong with a pink dip-dyed jean jacket, and in the second, it accompanies a tuxedo jacket picked out with mirrored sequins.
They’re not boundary-erasing like the wrap skirts, but the collection’s other new-ish silhouettes are the full-legged pants Scott cut high-waisted with pleats, or low and flat-front. They look smart with strappy sandals in bright colors. The Moschino fan who’s landlocked can wear them with lug-soled boots.
