| Meet Patricio Forrester, related to Touched By, and | | | | long, we have experienced a design gap brought by |
| he will tell you why did he think to design "art to | | | | the "dress down" market trend. It is set to bring an |
| wear" shirts for men. And he will come with a | | | | end to this trend. |
| satisfying answer. He says, "Touched By allows | | | | The fashion designer is confident of revolutionizing |
| people to express themselves in their working | | | | the fashion shirts in a completely different tone. While |
| environment and outside of it through a line of men | | | | launching his collection under the banner of Touched |
| and women's shirts in which art meets fashion." | | | | By, on November 19th at the Fashion Expo at the |
| Actually what he actually meant to say that like the | | | | Business Design Center, Islington, he says, "The |
| ties, his specially designed shirts were there to | | | | choice of artistic intervention on clothes, or 'art to |
| elaborate and project the particular self-expression of | | | | wear', will become a vehicle to express in a witty and |
| a man more comprehensively. It is no wonder that | | | | humorous way." |
| the use of ties, once supposed to be an emphatic | | | | The beautiful artworks done on the crisp white |
| tool of self-expression, has been on wane in the | | | | cotton shirts make these shirts a sort of stuffs not |
| working environment. | | | | seeming to have been made on this planet. He says, |
| Thus a man was left with very less options in the | | | | "I wanted to create art that could circulate freely |
| field of mens clothing which could help him standout | | | | outside of the art world. I discovered that I could |
| in a social setting. Of course, the ties used to do this | | | | use my freedom to dress how I liked in order to |
| job earlier on their own and much successfully. So | | | | make ephemeral public interventions." |
| with a solution in his mind, Patricio Forrester arrived | | | | Interestingly, he got the inspiration in a very weird |
| with his new collection being called as art to wear | | | | manner. He changed the whole outlook of the shirts, |
| shirts for men and for women too. | | | | he has inherited from his father, doing artworks on |
| Many believe that this latest fashion collection of | | | | them. Much to the amazement, he wore them too in |
| fashionable mens shirts will change the entire course | | | | public. |
| of fashion we had been habituated of perceiving. For | | | | |