Denzil Patrick Spring 2025 Menswear Collection – Key Colours and Patterns

Founded and led by Creative Director Daniel Gayle, with the support of his husband (and Artistic Director) James Bosley, Denzil Patrick is a British menswear brand based in London. Yesterday, 7th June 2024, Denzil Patrick presented a SS2025 Menswear collection in a range of colours and prints that take cues from the AW2024 season and move forward for a fresh look. Below are the key colours and patterns from the collection, sorted according to their prevalence on the runway.^{Calculation method at bottom of post.}

Coral and Teal are the two major colours in this SS2025 Menswear collection, with Coral having popped up a few times in AW2024 (a very bright coral at Miu Miu caught my eye, along with a softer tone at Bottega Veneta) – I’m predicting it will be a key colour for SS2025 and beyond. As for Teal, this was another colour that showed up sparsely in AW2024 but I’m sure it’s a colour to watch out for in SS2025, and will likely pick up for AW2025 too.

Patterns had a historical bent to them – florals reminded me of 19th Century English artist and textile designer William Morris, while there were also Baroque-style prints. Other prints showed paintings or trompe-l’œil military regalia.

Repeat prints are the major focus of the collection, accounting for almost a quarter of all fabrics on the runway. There are three kinds of repeat pattern – a Baroque print, a William Morris-style antique floral, and a print that combines florals with scrolls containing text. The looks below show mainly similar silhouettes: a military-style shirt complete with epaulettes paired with tailored trousers.

Shades of Coral include a pastel Faint Coral, a more mid-toned Burnt Coral, and a saturated Bright Coral.

Teals in the collection range from the Bright Teal as seen in the below tracksuit with contrast piping, the Midnight Green used for these short shorts paired with a sheer Chalk Mint jacket, and the greyish Charcoal Teal used for this military-style suit with a pointed collar shirt worn underneath, just about making its presence felt.

Already a key trend in AW2024, wide stripes appear in tonal pairs, running vertically and diagonally.

The second print type, accounting for just under a tenth of the fabrics in the collection, are those that are non-repeat, and are of two main kinds: watercolour paintings and trompe-l’œil military uniforms reminiscent of the knights, complete with the Maltese Cross that is associated with the Knights of St. John and dates back to the 16th Century.

Both Sand and Oatmeal appeared as neutral colours, either paired with solids or with prints – the jacket in the rightmost look below has solid-colour contrast patches on the shoulders, almost as a stand-in for the epaulettes seen in so much of the rest of the collection.

Both Chalk Mint and Mint were used as shades of Green; both complement extremely well the neutrals and shades of Teal.

A catch-all category – the remaining colours appearing on the SS2025 Menswear runway at Denzil Patrick are Black, Marian Blue, and White.

Calculation method: To calculate percentages, a score was assigned to each look, for example a look that was completely Black was assigned 100% Black, a look with equal parts Black and White was assigned 50% Black and 50% White. Scores for all looks were then tallied and overall percentages calculated.

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Image for Other Prints band by pexels/magda-ehlers-pexels