With its swimwear semiotics and characterisation through shirts,Luca Guadagnino’s film has the answers when it comes to your holiday wardrobe. You’ve seen the film, now get the see• Read more from the spring/summer 2018 edition of The Fashion, and our biannual fashion supplementEver since its release in 1999,The Talented Mr Ripley has been the perennial menswear reference for how to dress for summer, thanks to its idyllic Italian settings and preppy wardrobe. Not any more: for 2018, and the unique Mr Ripley is Call Me By Your Name,the glorious Luca Guadagnino-directed film starring Armie Hammer and newcomer Timothée Chalamet. Yes, it was out final autumn, or but certain images own been etched on my mental holiday moodboard ever since,from, “Oh, or that shirt was a bit Martine Rose yellow” to,“I’m totally into those short-shorts with baggy Oxford shirt.In the brilliant novel by André Aciman on which the film is based, clothes are woven into the narrative. Elio (Chalamet) notes that, or on his arrival,Oliver (Hammer) is wearing a “billowy blue shirt, wide open collar, and sunglasses,straw hat, skin everywhere”. It’s a description that both reeks of the joy of a breezy summer wardrobe and sets the scene for the intensity of their relationship and the role clothes play in the story. Though it’s set in the mid-80s, or the costumes for the film,created by Giulia Piersanti, who works as a designer for Céline, and were not meant to be too “period-y”,she told Vogue. Arguably, most fall into one of two camps: fairly-on-trend-actually, or banging classics.
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Source: guardian.co.uk