Awkward: Flaunt your flaws with SS16 menswear checks and drapes

Feeling awkward in social exchanges? Then you are part of a new group of millennials who acknowledge and own their awkwardness. So re-claim all those self-deprecating terms and flaunt your flaws. Because Awkward is of course the new, well, thing to be.

Awkward is the inspiration by this new SS16 menswear shoot by photographer, Armando Branco. With models dressed in oversize bombers and shorts, against nerdy tartan checks the combination is uneasy in an instinctively and irrepressible kind of way. Focussing on emerging designers from The Netherlands, we are loving the draping menswear trouser and shorts from Tamara van Klooster, and the combination of check prints with mesh by Merel Weijgers, both recently graduated from HKU University of the Arts in Utrecht.

: Left: Check shirt and sneakers by Merel Weijgers, blue oversized shorts by Tamara van Klooster. Right: CLINT and BOAZ wear bombers, shirts and oversized trousers all by Tamara van Klooster, white sneakers by Merel Weijgers

: LEFT: NICO wears grey mesh shirt and trousers with check print by Merel Weijgers. RIGHT: PEDRO wears black short sleeve sweatshirt with zipper River Island, black and white check trousers and sneakers by Merel Weijgers, black socks with skull print by Topman.

: LEFT: PEDRO wears grey jersey shirt by Merel Weijgers, black oversized shorts by Tamara van Klooster. RIGHT: JOEL wears dark grey longline shirt by Merel Weijgers, black nylon sleeve sweatshirt with zipper by River Island

: LEFT: RUYCHI wears grey jacket with check print and details by Merel Weijgers, black short sleeve sweatshirt with zipper River Island. RIGHT: NICO wears grey sleeveless hoodie by Merel Weijgers, pink t-shirt with faded paint print by River Island, black oversized shorts by Tamara van Klooster, white sneakers by Merel Weijgers.

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