Within the hype-powered world of contemporary menswear, it’s more and more uncommon for a collaboration to sneak underneath the radar. However each from time to time, we nonetheless get hit with a pleasant shock—and as soon as each by no means, we get clocked with an absolute haymaker. Properly, as we speak should be a haymaker day, as a result of J.Crew and Engineered Clothes simply dropped a bonkers 13-piece assortment virtually utterly out of the blue.
Regardless of that tight edit, the calling playing cards from each manufacturers are current in spades: the trademark patchworks, pleats, pockets, and patterns all play distinguished roles, as do the forgiving silhouettes and Ivy-adjacent detailing. In actual fact, just about every bit manages to amplify the weather every model does finest, with out feeling pressured or out of line.
Engineered Clothes was based in 2002 by Japanese designer—and all-around menswear legend—Daiki Suzuki, who was struggling to search out up to date American-made clothes as a purchaser for Nepenthes, a legendary chain of boutiques with an particularly rad NYC outpost. Engineered Clothes started as each a love letter to basic Americana and a market-bucking experiment in gently-freaked menswear, but it surely’s since develop into a beloved industry-insider title, routinely wowing with its material choice, development methods, and deep-cut references.
As you would possibly anticipate, although, Engineered Clothes isn’t precisely low cost, and it’s not at all times straightforward to trace down. (By no means has been, really.) Save for a rogue Uniqlo collaboration right here and there, the model hasn’t actually set foot wherever close to a mall. And whereas we wouldn’t name its J.Crew collaboration inexpensive, per se—costs begin at $50 however climb to almost $700 for a very-much-worth-it outsized army parka—most of it arrives at a much more wallet-friendly value than traditional.
For that motive (and a pair dozen extra) it’s all transferring quick, so get in whereas the getting’s good or begin kicking your self now.