If you need more color or fun in your life, Bernhard Willhelm is the guy for you. His collections are chock-a-block with outrageous cuts, colors, and patterns, and many pieces are made from simple (but high-quality) cotton fleece. In fact, regardless of a particular season’s stated theme, seeing one of his shows usually feels like going to a party in a high school gym in 1985.

As far as we’re concerned, there’s nothing wrong with that, especially when so many men’s collections these days are heavy on basics (topcoats and suits), and rarely get more colorful than navy blue, taupe or charcoal grey. Of course, you probably wouldn’t wear Bernhard’s type of clothes to the office–but you might want to dare them on the weekend, or for going out at night.

As usual, Bernhard’s models looked amazing in his clothes, and were styled as eccentrics, from ordinary, masculine blokes to guys with bold makeup, wild hair and even splatters of paint on their faces and bodies. Few men will go for the full Bernhard treatment–but there are plenty who will want to own a pair of his fleece pants, a cool bomber jacket, or a pair of shorts or two!

––Mark Grischke

Photographs by Stéphane Israël