Slide Show|6 Photos Josh Goot and Christine Centenera’s Line of Essentials
CreditJackie Nickerson
Over the years, Christine Centenera, the stylist and appearance administrator of Vogue Australia, begin that she was consistently actuality solicited for appearance advice. Her sisters would admiration about a well-tailored atramentous blazer that didn’t amount an arm and a leg; accompany would analyze area to buy the best T-shirts or the simplest atramentous trousers.
“You’re consistently asked these questions,” she says. “And generally I acquisition it difficult to accelerate them places that are reasonable — middle-ground but absolutely ample pieces.”
So forth with her accomplice of 10 years, the Australian artist Josh Goot, Centenera absitively to architecture the solution: Apparel NYC, an edited accumulating of high-quality basics for men and women, which launches online tomorrow.
The abounding accumulating appearance alone 16 pieces: eight for men and eight for women, the base for what Goot and Centenera feel is a simple, absolute apparel that would assignment for bodies in abounding altered professions, behindhand of claimed styles, ages and anatomy types. (Many of the pieces are cut abundantly and ambit in sizes; their men’s T-shirt, for one, runs from baby to 3XL.) The men’s accumulating includes a ample overcoat, a two-button blazer, a T-shirt, a brace of loosefitting trousers and a hoodie; for women, there is additionally a advantageously big coat, a white collarless shirt, atramentous leggings, an A-line brim and more. Aggregate is atramentous or white — a palette Goot calls “democratic” and “solutions-based.” Together, the clothes assume like the kinds of things you’d appetite to abrasion so often, you ability be aggressive to abolition your closet of aggregate else.
“This is our way of adage to people, this season, this is what we anticipate you should be wearing,” Centenera says, as the brace allotment a couch in their light-filled NoHo loft, pieces from the new accumulating blind on a arbor nearby. “Being accurate is our way of accouterment a band-aid for people. I anticipate that is a huge band-aid for bodies to get on with their lives and not accepting to be so challenged by what and how to put things together.”
The accumulating is produced absolutely in Italy and will be awash alone on the brand’s site. For both men and women, the absolute eight-piece apparel costs $3,000; additionally accessible is a four-piece “core” apparel ($1,500) which consists, for women, of a blazer, a T-shirt, a accepted and a skirt, and for men, of a blazer, a button-down, a T-shirt and trousers. Items are not accessible individually.
