Designer: Peter Wiesmann

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

If you’re looking for something offbeat but casual enough to lounge in, then progressive-minded designer Peter Wiesmann is your man. The emerging German talent has worked for Bless and participated in the 2007 edition of the Hyères Fashion & Photography Festival, but now turns his attention to his own line of menswear.

Wiesmann transforms everyday garments that are usually taken for granted into ironic and conceptual works of wonder: his silk t-shirts fall listlessly when worn and have only one seam running along the shoulder; beach board shorts are cut in multicolored circular panels; tracksuits are made out of marbled satin; and a pair of overly distended jeans fits all sizes thanks to an adjustable waistband.

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