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From left: Jumper,
£499. Trousers, £269.
Shoes, £329. All by
Tiger Of Sweden.
tigerofsweden.com.
Rings by Tateossian,
£315 each. tateossian.com
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Sweater vest, £965.
Trousers, £860. Shoes,
£440. All by Lanvin.
lanvin.com
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T-shirt, £385. Trousers,
£565. Shoes, £525. All
by Salvatore Ferragamo.
ferragamo.comStory by Teo van den Broeke Photograph by Rosaline Shahnavaz Styling by Angelo MitakosDON’TCALLTHEMFATPANTSThe world’s menswear designers have been trying hard to get cargo pants back on the agenda for quite
some time now. First, the king of Italian slouch, Brunello Cucinelli, had a crack (his close-cut take on the
style, defined by bellows pockets on the leg, are a favourite of fintech billionaires to this day), then
Christoffer Lundman at Tiger Of Sweden did his part. Ultimately, though, cargo pants had never really
been able to shake their slightly crunchy, “popping pingers in a field at Glasto” look, with which they were,
perhaps unfairly, tarnished back in the 1990s. Now, for SS20, things are looking up for this most utilitarian
trouser. At the menswear shows back in June, there wasn’t a brand that didn’t show a pair of cargo trousers- from the souped-up parachute styles at Louis Vuitton to the close-cut butter-leather slacks at Fendi –
which means that, if there’s one thing we know for SS20, it’s that pockets are back (see last month’s safari
jackets trend page for proof) and that you should be wearing yours like this...
The workaday cargo
trouser has been
given a style-forward
reinvention. There’s
nothing 1990s
about them...DETAILS − TRENDS04-20DetailsTrendsTrousers_3411549.indd 57 04/02/2020 16:41
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