British fashion house BURBERRY presented their Spring Summer 2023 Pre-Collection, that celebrates the brand’s duality code, and playfully recontextualizes workwear’s functionality. The collection refreshes timeless tailoring with signature and seasonal graphics, and it brings bold silhouettes mixed with traditional and subversive elements. For the season, colors soft fawn, dark birch brown, dark grey me?lange and black are mixed with primary pops of bright orange, bright red and true cobalt blue. The Resort 2023 collection is the second in the brand’s creative series Friends and Family, in which Riccardo Tisci partners with inspiring creatives from unexpected backgrounds. For this collection, Riccardo partnered with artist Jared Buckhiester, who interpreted the themes of the collection by styling the collection and photographing the lookbook. Models David Van Ess, Jack Nowell, and Tommy Clasper star in the lookbook. Beauty is work of hair stylist Soichi Inagaki, and makeup artist Anne Sophie Costa.
Jared and I have been close friends for a long time and I have always admired him, both for his dedication to his work and the passion that comes with that, as well as his commitment to living fiercely by his identity and being true to himself. I am so excited to be able to share the result of our creative worlds coming together with the release of this unique and very special collection. – Riccardo Tisci, Burberry Chief Creative Officer
If anyone knows Riccardo, they know him to be generous and loyal, and for this reason he is surrounded by people who have something to bring creatively. As well, he is such a sharp observer, he misses nothing. Combine this observational nature with the generosity and you get someone who can recognise the ideas that will best represent you as a collaborator. Honestly, it’s been a dream to work with him. I see Burberry as a signifier of British culture, it’s woven into my conception of what it is to be British, similar to punk or rave culture. Add to that Riccardo – and my relationship to him as a friend – and suddenly Burberry becomes more personal and tactile. It maintains its British core, but the rave is right alongside. – Jared Buckhiester, artist
“The car coat in dark birch brown cotton canvas, worn under a shearling oversized coat. A utility-style coat in black cotton gabardine, with exaggerated pockets and applique?d stripes. An orange field jacket in cotton canvas, with a corduroy collar and contrast topstitching. A waxed cotton jacket with tonal panels, styled with skirts and layered over a honey bespoke gabardine car coat and rib-knit sweater in a wool-cashmere blend. A leather apron under a logo-quilted puffer jacket.
House codes amplified. Dark birch brown Burberry check explored in a wool down-filled jacket and wool and leather bomber jacket with badge applique?s, styled with a leather biker jacket and trousers. The Equestrian Knight Design intarsia-knitted on a cashmere-wool twinset and 3D-printed on a tailored jacket. A new chain motif printed on a loop-back cotton hoodie and as an all-over pattern embellished with crystals on a cotton-wool track jacket and jogging pants.” – from Burberry
