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Robert Geller S/S09
text by Eugene Rabkin
photos by Ssnaa

NEW YORK - The most common misconception about dandies is that they necessarily like loud colors and suffocatingly crisp shirts. As a matter of fact, Beau Brummel used to break in his new clothes by making his butler wear them for a few weeks - this way the clothes looked lived in. Robert Geller's show was a living testament that in order to look dapper one does need to dress like a peacock. The tall thin models walked around a rope sculpture to the somber soundtrack by Death in June wearing relaxed dinner jackets in muted grays, asymmetrical vests, wrinkled pants casually rolled up to calf, and white dress shirts. They looked as if they came to a cocktail party that was, for once, not run by fatuously chic socialites. The monochrome palette was broken up by bold stripes and standout blue leather jackets. The next to last look offered a brown trench with a slight sheen as if to remind us that not everything is doom and gloom in Geller land.