The Menswear Designer Finding Inspiration In The Young Dads Of The 90s

When recent LCF graduate Callum Pidgeon set out to create his final collection, Young Lads to Young Dads, he had his parents, Damion and Petra, in mind. “My dad was 22 and my lovely mum was only 18 when I was born,” the menswear designer explains. “I was around the same age when I was going into my last year, and I just thought ‘Jesus, I couldn’t imagine having a responsibility like that.’ But it sparked my imagination and I started looking through family photo albums at what my dad and his friends wore, what little they had, and them just having a good time really. It filled me with nostalgia and enthusiasm for the collection that came from it. It was quite a personal concept really.” Shown as part of June’s Burn The Man graduate show in east London, the collection itself comprised oversized shirts that were semi-tucked into loose, stonewashed denim jeans, baggy sweatshirts layered over equally baggy t-shirts, motocross-style jackets embossed with ‘Daddy’, and Pidgeon’s take on the classic football kit. “I tried to portray the beauty that lies in these adolescent men entering the realm of parenthood, and I really wanted to get away from shaming young parents, which I think happens a lot,” he says. Read more at Dazed.