Per Götesson is bringing a cult 90s label back into the spotlight

We’ve learned how to dress like layered-up Copenhagen girlies, coquettish Gen Z residents of the Lower East Side, and frazzled English women from your fave early 00s films, but now Swedish-born, London-based designer Per Götesson has teamed up with Spanish label Armand Basi to provide us with everything we need to emulate the Barcelona fashion crowd. After visiting Barcelona in March, Götesson joined forces with Armand Basi to design an ungendered, collaborative capsule collection which clashes the slick lines of city’s geometric landscapes with Catalan people’s effortless, laid-back culture and style.

“There’s a lot of pride in being Catalan here in Barcelona. I wanted to channel that through the collection, whilst also looking to the unique architecture that shapes the city today,” explains Götesson, who besides drawing inspiration directly from Barcelona street style, also dove into Armand Basi’s 90s archives to hand-select key archetypes which could be reimagined for the city’s next gen. “Armand Basi provided me with a blank canvas to interpret the brand’s archives in a way [that was] true to me and my work," he adds.

But what actually makes up the Barcelona uniform? According to Götesson and Armand Basi, it's all about sleek, hybridised, apron-style trousers inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modernist 1930’s Barcelona Pavilion, slouchy cut-out jumpers in electric blue hues, vest tops emblazoned with pseudo-barcode graphics, and classic shirting stamped with a collaborative logo between the two brands. Elsewhere, tailored jackets reimagine Basi’s signature outerwear in recycled rubber and a collection of one-of-a-kind, silver visors, necklaces, and body chains by Götesson’s partner and collaborator Husam El Odeh are crafted to mirror the city’s architectural lines across models’ bodies. 

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