PATRIK ERVELL


The young menswear designer Patrik Ervell is one of the most fascinating on the New York scene today. Since 2006, he has consistently produced clothes that hit the perfect balance between the progressive and the functional, joining together a fascination with technical fabrics and an artist’s eye for color and—more recently—prints with a talent for sharp tailoring and the perfect silhouette. This season, Ervell brings his aesthete’s sense to a full collection for women for the first time, after noticing that a large proportion of the sales from his e-commerce site were being made by women for themselves. “I’ve always had a significant number of women buying my menswear,” he says, “so it felt like a natural evolution to start making women’s clothes.”

Spring’s clean lines and subtle details—like a hand-painted tie-dye effect on a shirt collar or the braided horsehair that forms a tote’s handle—complement his men’s offerings, without being too obvious. That subtlety is exactly what Ervell says will attract women to his offerings. “Like the men’s customer, I don’t think she’s a woman who is a major follower of fashion,” he says. “I think of the women’s collection as a counterpart to the men’s. It’s not really a his-and-hers aesthetic. There are elements of the menswear that bleed into the womenswear and vice versa. It’s all coming from the same place.”

For more information, please visit PatrikErvell.com.

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Clothing by Patrik Ervell.

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