New Wave

VIRGIL ABLOH - BETTER known as the founding father of luxury streetwear - recently told Dazed magazine that the days of sweatshirts and hoodies were over - an irony considering that the menswear artistic director of Louis Vuitton is the creator of overpriced logo-centric streetwear label Off-White.

But even before Abloh's grand predictions, other designers were already looking beyond hoodies, logo T-shirts and trendy sneakers.

Dries van Noten, Kim Jones of Dior, Kris van Assche of Berluti, Alessandro Sartori of Zegna - to name a few - are stellar examples of menswear designers who consistently produce elegant, eve…