Elaborating on AMIRI’s womenswear archetypes, Autumn-Winter 22 marks a broadening of the house’s wardrobe guided by utilitarian design codes, hybrid construction and technical craft.
Feminine and established, Mike Amiri builds character through volume. Outlined by AMIRI’s ubiquitous utility silhouettes, the collection focuses on dynamic shapes and an elevated attitude; recognized by defined, oversized outerwear, relaxed body and wide-leg, cargo flare.
A palette of neutral and earthy tones defines the collection – alabaster, beige, brown, and sage – accented by a season-specific camo print. This tonal color spectrum assembles across a complex textural canvas that bridges the hardy and technical with the soft and sensual: nylon, treated denim, ripstop camo, Terry cotton and shearling find ease alongside jersey, felt wool, boucle and silk.
A duality of spirit shakes up perceptions through notions of hybridization as materials are spliced together to create new identities: French Terry with washed and veined denim, and Italian leather with cotton jersey – recalibrating traditional garment construction through conceptual distortion. Structured high Sherpa collars are formed with wire engineering as this season’s signifier, offering sculptural versatility that wraps the neck and alters the silhouette with a subtle movement or strap.
Outerwear is key: the practical utilitarianism of heritage overcoats is deconstructed and softened, taking on a robe-like quality when drawn in collarless kimono shapes and rendered in tactile shaved shearling, while a trench is built with all-over downs quilting, inflating the garment with the properties of a puffer jacket. Observing similar notes of contemporary craft, stitching is removed from a puffer jacket to create a cocooning effect that swathes the torso, and the proportions of the traditional M65 jacket are adapted in denim with sharp shoulders and a cinched drawstring waist that echoes corsetry.
Tailoring itself is subverted, undone, redone and reworked in lightweight wool or soft French Terry to exaggerated double-breasted proportions. Aligning with AMIRI’s West Coast design codes, this season’s suiting encourages the eclectic notion of mixing tailoring with non-traditional elements to create a contemporary formality – worn as elegant eveningwear by night; paired with leather cargo pants or hand-distressed bootcut denim by day.
Intuitive in the art of utility, the Autumn-Winter 22 AMIRI woman modernizes tradition, forging new classics.
ABOUT AMIRI
AMIRI was founded in 2014 by the Los Angeleno CEO and Creative Director, Mike Amiri. From Mike’s foray into fashion with hand-embellished, one-off denim creations that riffed on the countercultural milieu of his youth in ‘90s L.A., AMIRI is now an established global luxury fashion house, celebrated for its bold artistic vision and refined, world-class craftsmanship.
Now one of the fastest-growing businesses in the U.S. luxury fashion market, AMIRI’s momentous growth reflects the brand’s successful reception globally. A fast trajectory followed bi-annual shows at Paris Fashion Week and a robust international wholesale business that secured leading retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman in New York, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London and Joyce in Hong Kong. In 2021, AMIRI womenswear debuted: a manifestation of the brand’s archetypical, empowered woman, offering a complete expression of the AMIRI universe.
In 2020, AMIRI opened a flagship L.A. store, setting the tone for the brand’s most immersive experience yet – offering up Mike’s contemporary translation of Californian lifestyle and a relaxed expression of American luxury. In 2021, AMIRI opened stores in Las Vegas, New York, and, in 2022, Miami, Tokyo, Shanghai and Atlanta.
As AMIRI’s presence expands globally, a strong sense of integrity, authenticity, and a commitment to quality guides every facet of the business, from company culture to creative pursuits. Mike’s eternal reverence for art, freedom, and craft, expressed through unparalleled handiwork, remains forever an anchor. The Autumn-Winter 2022 Menswear collection was a testament to this: a creative dialogue between Mike Amiri and contemporary U.S. artist Wes Lang, which treated garments as artworks and incorporated Lang’s synonymous Grim Reapers, folk totems, and scattered text elements explored with AMIRI’s distinctive craft.
Since 2018, Mike Amiri has been a member of the CFDA. In 2018, he was also nominated for the Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent at the CFDA Fashion Awards and honored with the Emerging Talent Award at the Footwear News Achievement Awards. In 2019, 2021, and 2022 Mike was nominated for the Menswear Designer of the Year at the CFDA Fashion Awards.