AP – Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, the label of the self-proclaimed club kid and Scottish-born designer Charles Jeffrey, brought joy to the runway with fanciful storytelling though knitwear, kilting and prints.
Jeffrey presented his ‘Engine Room’ collection through three subcultures in a mythical floating city: workers, whose toil keeps the city aloft; posers, or former workers who now bask in luxury; and snakes, aka, the media. While other brands hewed toward the minimal, Jeffrey went maximal, with a focus on sartorial details and an explosion of colour.
The workers were clothed in grey, black and white, faces smudged, with starry prints and clawed footwear. Posers burst with colour, including graphic prints from the archives of the Scottish artist and playwright John Byrne, metallic accents and endearing knitwear with kwai detailing like hoods with ears. The snakes had a Goth edge, dark garments giving way to newsprint prints against a black-white-and-red (read) palette.
Jeffrey called the collection “a celebration of Scotland, workers and Renaissance people”.
