Damir Doma adds cobalt blue to monk-like palette

Hip Croatia-born designer Damir Doma added some twists to his signature menswear silhouette of wide torsos and billowing pants for the spring-summer 2014 season.

Beginning with a series of sanitised white ensembles, a unique thick waist band recurred across the 30 looks at the show held in a Paris warehouse on Saturday evening.

Sported either low on a jacket or at the top strip of high-waisted pants, the band clinched the midriff and produced a nice new silhouette.

There was some variation, too, in the colours.

Flashes of cobalt blue – or what the program notes call “Yves Klein” – worked well, especially on these high pants, in punctuating the intentionally monk-like palette of donkey brown and slate gray.

The blown-up monochrome geometric patterns that looked a little like the Burberry motif worked less well, however.

But the show produced some great single pieces: Like a square shaped jacket with raglan sleeves that were subtly pleated to pump up the volume.