Comme des Garçons Shirt—the label that obsessively examines just how often or how drastically a button-down chemise can be tweaked—partnered with the Andy Warhol Foundation for its latest collection. This is spring’s big news, and fans of the brand and the artist alike will be doubly satiated with the outcome: Graphic color-block Oxford shirts with bits and panels of reproduced Warhol works (Marilyn Monroe included) stood strong against white tees depicting the same imagery (plus added text, like Monroe’s quote, “Dogs don’t bite me. Just humans.”). There was also a nifty little series of breezy button-down shirts with ostensible Warhol tiles, printed in repeated small squares to create something borderline kaleidoscopic and trippy.
Elsewhere, candy-striped polychrome tops held a summery freshness, and tailored pieces (jackets on top, loose pants or shorts below) featured purposefully scraped paint splotches—the collection almost seemed more an abstract ode to the studio than the cutting room. That said, there’s a lovely, disciplined finesse and shape to everything CDG Shirt does. Practice makes perfect.
