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PARIS, France — Alexandre Matiussi's men's line AMI is friendly fashion at friendly prices, and in Paris, he's known as a pretty friendly guy. Though master of cut and fabric innovation he is not, there is a colourful, utilitarian methodology to his work that makes it trendy yet approachable.
Whilst his Spring 2018 show was purportedly an ode to Paris, it looked uncannily like another designer's recent ode to America: Raf Simons' debut collection for Calvin Klein, to be precise. From the colour-blocking to the bandanas and Western detailed shirting, it was difficult not to clock the references, skewed as they were with roomier, more urbane proportions. Thanks to Dickies-style cargo shorts, acidic Hawaiian prints and boxy bowling shirts, Matiussi's younger, street-wise customer will be satiated next summer — whether he sees le Parisien in them or not.