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A New Color Palette For Winter

How do you face winter head on? With fashion, of course.

01 . 20 . 16

A popular question among men in the winter: Why are you wearing so much color?

A hypothesis on the reason for this question’s popularity: We want to blend in during the winter as if the cold won’t recognize us and perhaps leave us alone.

Depending on the answer here, the follow-up question will change slightly, but the gist will remain the same.

Winter is a time when I also become guilty of wearing black and 99 shades of grey too frequently. I morn the warm weathered months of August and fear potential show storms ahead. So yes, I do try to blend in as much as a Kardashian at fashion week. I never said I was good at it.

However, after watching the Fall 2016 Gucci men’s show streamed from Milan, I have a new appreciation for unique color combinations and developed a new color palette for winter.

I refuse to tolerate grey anymore and accordingly, have committed myself to being indiscriminately color-oriented. So when the old tricks don’t work, you come up with new tricks.

Being immersed in nature for the past week also really helped me locate a new color palette. Instead of the grey winter hues of a city, I looked to the burgundy and yellow tones in the faded leaves and the ice blue sky for inspiration. Here you’ll find that I took the layering route incorporating a knit, worn under a vest, worn under a blazer — overall an outfit that neither renders me invisible nor allows for me to sulk in a lake of my own self-loathing.

(Suit: Topman/ Knit: Raf Simons/Vest: Vintage /Shoes: Salvatore Ferragamo/ Hat: Portolando)