Airei Fall Winter 2022 – 2023 at Paris Men’s Fashion Week

Presented during Paris Men’s Fashion Week, AIREI A/W ’22 will launch as part of Dover Street Market Paris – Comme des Garcons’ umbrella organization created to nurture and support creative talent. The Los Angeles-based brand designed by Drew Curry will be revealing their inaugural PFW presentation at 3537 with an immersive sculpture and sound experience in collaboration with Cashmere.

Title: Plight

Meaning: Plight embodies the challenge and struggle of design and beauty in life. Rejecting conformity, Plight highlights a unique experience with protection and limitation in each piece.

Glory is in the struggle and pushing through limits, even in plight.

Drew Curry’s use of threads in his brand AIREI has both literal and abstract meaning. For his third collection, this motif is most literally shown through the immersive sculpture containing three looks inside a box with walls artfully strung locking in the pieces through a maze of individual threads. The silhouettes chosen for the installation are double layered silhouettes creating a “shadow” garment that can not be fully taken off – Drew describes the more abstract meaning in these pieces as the idea of “walking through a difficult or painful experience together, we build compassion and kinship with each other.”

Since the first collection was made entirely from natural Khadi cotton, this season covers a variety of colors and textures including new applications of woven strips of Khadi and Kantha blankets. Japanese wool, cotton, cotton denim, and cupra in blacks, browns, and reds create a symphony of color and texture to the touch. Italian Alpaca and Merino wool sweaters and accessories along with a new Italian recycled cashmere and wool mix are new to this collection.

AIREI’S “Ghost” stitching appears again this season to reveal the words “Glory” and “hold on to me”. AIREI is adding a level of customer involvement to some of the garments in this collection – when they are purchased, the wearer will have to cut the openings of the pieces that were hand stitched together in order to wear the garment. AIREI’s themes of protection and restriction are shown through body-enveloping pieces including cocoon-like parkas and floor-length skirts.