Légionnaire: “The English Patient” by Façonnable

The Legionnaires, better known as the French Foreign Legion, is a military unit filled with foreign nationals that became famous during the late 1800s and early part of the 1900s. The company’s uniforms—dusty khakis, clean chinos, and streamlined
silhouettes— became just as iconic, immortalized by Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas in 1996 film, “An English Patient.” It is with these two muses where the Legionnaire group begins. Romantic and military references meet in a new kind of understated, elegance. Strong, confident, but far from ostentatious, the men’s features standout outerwear, including a cropped belted trench coat with leather shoulder patches, a perforated suede bomber, oversized army parachute parka and a double-zip lightweight nylon jacket. There are also key layering pieces, like nylon vests, aged field jackets, washed winter line drill blazer and knit zip-front hoodies. For women, the lineup is sensual and functional. Exceptional outerwear features pieces like a funnel neck belted coat, a suede blazer and a round-shoulder belted trench. Important layering pieces like cropped slouchy sweaters, paper-thin button down shirts in ethnical prints and minimal skirts with contrast zips or trim round up perfectly this feminine yet far from ostentatious line. Both men and women collections are obsolescence and designed for the ones who appreciate clean-lined and modern clothes, all cut from cool neutrals, like tobacco, stone and olive drab then accented with deep tones, such as chili red, sun bleached pink and gypsy blue. This collection is at once of the moment and timeless.

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