{"id":79923,"date":"2016-08-29T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/?p=79923"},"modified":"2016-08-31T09:38:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T13:38:46","slug":"canadian-designer-david-kollar-on-his-line-kollar-clothing-and-effortless-casual-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/2016\/08\/canadian-designer-david-kollar-on-his-line-kollar-clothing-and-effortless-casual-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Designer David Kollar On His Line Kollar Clothing And Effortless Casual Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KOLLAR<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Kollar Clothing<\/em><\/p>\n

Slovakian-born and Canadian-raised designer David Kollar may have a passion for casual style, but his low key layers and wardrobe staples are created with attention to detail. Kollar recently presented his Spring\/Summer 2017 collection at Toronto Men\u2019s Fashion Week, where neutral silhouettes stole the show. His passion for graphic prints, along with a flair for streetwear and gender neutral dressing, have all become trademarks of the Kollar aesthetic.<\/p>\n

Real Style spoke to the young Toronto-based design talent about his eponymous label Kollar Clothing, along with his fashion journey from a sartorially challenged teen to a modern day gentleman. Here\u2019s what he had to share:<\/p>\n

Real Style: What was the inspiration behind your latest collection? <\/strong><\/p>\n

David: <\/strong>For the collection, I was really obsessed with layers. I felt that a lot of guys have problems and are not sure what to layer with. For me, the inspiration was having everything built in one, and they just put it on. It\u2019s one layer, and it just drapes nicely on the body. I was going for a really earthy vibe. I was inspired by darker tones. The collection has a lot of tan and a lot of olive.<\/p>\n

Real Style: How do you think your menswear aesthetic can be translated into womenswear? <\/strong><\/p>\n

David: <\/strong>A lot of girls buy an extra small. If you wear skinny jeans and put one of our nice T-shirts on and roll it up, you can really rock it. I have a lot of female customers, actually. I do little details, so the shoulder may drop a little lower than it\u2019s supposed to be. I get inspired by women\u2019s clothing a lot, actually, because I see a lot of women\u2019s clothing with a dropped shoulder.<\/p>\n

Real Style: Tell us what first got you interested in pursuing fashion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

David: <\/strong>It\u2019s actually funny, because I was young. In middle school, I couldn\u2019t dress. I would wear socks and sandals, and I was really bad at dressing! I would wear a hoodie with no T-shirt. When I got to grade nine or ten, I got really interested in my image. I cared about what I was wearing, and my mom was buying everything for me. I was kind of not sure what to wear, so I started seeing things that I liked. I was [doing] graphic design, so I started doing T-shirt prints. That led to me being bored of that, so that\u2019s how Kollar was created.<\/p>\n

Real Style: There\u2019s definitely a link between graphic design and fashion. How does this work, in terms of your design?<\/strong><\/p>\n

David: <\/strong>It\u2019s funny because a lot of the graphic stuff that happens, I still do. I want full control of my vision, the clothing and the graphics. I try to delegate now though, because before I used to try to do everything.<\/p>\n

Real Style: What upcoming creative initiatives can we expect from you? <\/strong><\/p>\n

David: <\/strong>We\u2019re actually coming out with shoes soon, so that should be cool. Footwear is coming out, and watches too. I feel like a lot of the time when I have a fashion show, I would be calling stores about watches or shoes. It still didn\u2019t fit my style. The reason I started my clothing is because I couldn\u2019t fit anything that I wanted.<\/p>\n

Real Style: What are your fashion essentials for fall?<\/strong><\/p>\n

David: <\/strong>I love black in fall. I love long scoop tees layered with oversized shirts, and jeans that are fitted and stacked nicely at the bottom. Then, a nice big coat to go with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slovakian-born and Canadian-raised designer David Kollar may have a passion for casual style, but his low key layers and wardrobe staples are created with attention to detail. Real Style spoke to the young Toronto-based design talent about his eponymous label Kollar Clothing, his personal fashion journey and more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":80035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[29684,29685,5069,15929,29676,29677],"class_list":["post-79923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-david-kollar","tag-david-kollar-designer","tag-emerging-canadian-designers","tag-kollar-clothing","tag-tom-ss17","tag-toronto-mens-fashion-week"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80036,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79923\/revisions\/80036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}