Drakeโ€™s Spring 2023 Is Laden With Kit Youโ€™ll Enjoy Wearing Every Season
โ€” 8 May 2023

Drakeโ€™s Spring 2023 Is Laden With Kit Youโ€™ll Enjoy Wearing Every Season

โ€” 8 May 2023
Randy Lai
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Randy Lai

One of the great joys of Britainโ€™s famously โ€˜fierce mildโ€™ weather has to be all of the spring/summer gear English brands release around this time of year that remain surprisingly salient for an Australian audience. Front-of-mind in this arena is Drakeโ€™s: Michael Hillโ€™s irreverent, perennially elegant London sportswear brand โ€“ and a frequent collaborator of Aimรฉ Leon Dore.

For Spring 2023, the label has just revealed another of its signature unisex campaigns: modelled eruditely by designer Louie Isaaman-Jones and textile artist Alena Dower.

Across a range of some 30+ styles, the duo โ€“ hats off to Drakeโ€™s, incidentally, for tapping interesting everyday creatives as models โ€“ show off a variety of garments which can be worn by men and their better halves. In Australia? For around three quarters of the year, we might add.

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Consisting of numerous legitimately new releases, plus a handful of year-round staples from Drakeโ€™s aptly named โ€˜Perennialsโ€™ range; Spring 2023 is populated by Japanese denim, textural tailoring, quilted vests, Rugby-esque knit jerseys; โ€˜funโ€™ socks youโ€™ll actually enjoy wearing; and an interesting new boat shoe that is being made in conjunction with Italian footwear specialists Sebago.

In a nutshell? Drakeโ€™s Spring 2023 collection is par for the course for the brand: good news indeed if what youโ€™re interested in is beautiful and functional apparel, made with an eye to increasing your comfort on the daily.

A relatively conventional effort next to the thematic designing that Drakeโ€™s does when working with third-party collaborators (e.g. St. Johnโ€™s) much of the styling that has gone into this latest Spring lookbook will hold practical merit for men who arenโ€™t averse to a bit of fussiness when theyโ€™re getting dressed in the morning.

In practice, that means a lot of shirting that has been intentionally folded over outerwear, or handkerchiefs giddily redeployed as neckwear. My personal favourite? Swapping out the predictable sportcoat for some splash-proof outerwear: because โ€˜dressed like Moss from The IT Crowdโ€˜ is, unironically, a rather entertaining aesthetic to embrace when youโ€™re back in the office.

Drake's Spring 2023
Drake's Spring 2023
Drake's Spring 2023

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Randy Lai
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Following 6 years in the trenches covering consumer luxury across East Asia, Randy joins Boss Hunting as the team's Commercial Editor. His work has been featured in A Collected Man, M.J. Bale, Soho Home, and the BurdaLuxury portfolio of lifestyle media titles. An ardent watch enthusiast, boozehound and sometimes-menswear dork, drop Randy a line at randy@luxity.com.au.

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