By Jamie Millar
If you asked GQ.com to sum up the aesthetic of The Kooples in four words, we'd probably describe it as "Pete Doherty in Paris". So it was only a matter of time before the sometime Libertine, Babyshambles frontman and style icon Koopled with the Gallic tailoring brand's suitably chic founders, siblings Laurent, Raphaël and Alexandre Elicha (pictured).
Unsurprisingly, the limited-edition collection draws on Doherty's own elegantly dishevelled Dickensian styling as well as the wardrobe of his 19th-century dandy character Octavian from his new film Confession Of A Child Of The Century (also starring Charlotte Gainsbourg,Joséphine de La Baume and Lily Cole).
What's surprising about the collaboration is that, according to Doherty, it comprises elements of football casuals-inspired sportswear, a midnight blue suit with pink lining and a tie of the same hue - something Doherty has already confessed to borrowing from the Strokes' Julian Casablancas. No word yet on whether it also includes fingerless gloves...
Published 09 May 2011
Online editing by Andy Morris
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/style/articles/2011-05/09/gq-style-news-the-kooples-pete-doherty-collaboration-collection
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