A-Cold-Wall Spring 2023 Menswear

A-Cold-Wall Spring 2023 Menswear

The A-Cold-Wall lookbook is mostly concerned with the atelier-finished pieces that right now Samuel Ross is most creatively stimulated by. Or as he put it: “I wanted to be a lot closer in the making of the clothes. And you can’t use these techniques if you try and operate at scale, because they have to be done by local hands in the atelier. But this produces garments of true beauty and I have fallen love with this side of the work.”

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A-Cold-Wall FALL 2022 MENSWEAR

A-Cold-Wall FALL 2022 MENSWEAR

Samuel Ross’ fall 2022 effort for A-Cold-Wall may be his most avant-garde yet; not always easy to like, but sometimes hard to get out of your head. Here were pants as curved as parenthesis, enveloping coats with wire-framed hoods that obscure the face, or burqa-like hoods that make one think of samurai head armor — or if you live in London, perhaps Renzo Piano’s striking building known as The Shard.

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