Paul McLauchlan's menswear: Why outdoor clothes are here to stay

Beyond the outdoorsy appeal of the clothes, they tellingly portray the pervasive anxiety of our times.
Paul McLauchlan's menswear: Why outdoor clothes are here to stay

A park ranger like any other took to the runway at Paris Fashion Week in January. He wore a paper-thin biscuit-coloured shirt with ranger badges on the sleeves, and matching corduroy trousers, with a distressed green belt, a woolly beard and classic catwalk solemnity defining his face. Of course, this wasn’t a park ranger like any other. It was Phipps International’s autumn/winter 2020 men’s fashion show.

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