A warped take on officewear, courtesy of this season’s menswear collections

Re-balance your work-life wardrobe with A/W 2022 menswear pieces from Valentino, Fendi, Dior and more, captured in a playful series by photographer Dorothy Sing Zhang and stylist Ben Schofield

Three men in A/W 2022 menswear in revolving office door
‘After Hours’ menswear: Aditya wears jacket, £2,205, by Fendi. Top, £4,060; trousers, £1,150, both by Valentino. Shoes, £315, by Grenson. Gloves, £490, by Valentino Garavani Freddie wears jacket, £2,090; trousers, £890, both by Gucci. Boots, £450, by Camperlab. Hat, price on request, by Noel Stewart. Gloves, £520, by Paula Rowan Otto wears jacket; kilt, both price on request, by Dolce & Gabbana. Boots, £1,400, by Prada.
(Image credit: Photography by Dorothy Sing Zhang, styling by Ben Schofield)

An open locker with a lit-up birthday cake inside; a dropped house plant; the otherworldly glow of a vending machine – a new photo series, featuring the best menswear pieces of A/W 2022, offers a surreal riff on the working uniform set amid an after-hours office-scape.

Photographed by London-based film and image-maker Dorothy Sing Zhang – whose work often features figures set in uncanny takes on quotidian settings, from suburban living rooms to aeroplane cabins – and styled by Ben Schofield, the series features in the December 2022 Issue of Wallpaper* (on international newsstands now). Sing Zhang has previously been named one of Wallpaper’s emerging photographic rising stars

After Hours: A/W 2022 menswear by Dorothy Sing Zhang

Man in suit with broom sat on floor in carpark

Jacket, £2,500; shirt, £700; trousers, £1,105, all by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. Boots, £450, by Camperlab

(Image credit: Photography by Dorothy Sing Zhang, styling by Ben Schofield)

Titled ‘After Hours’, the series offers a playful directive on re-balancing your work-life wardrobe, transforming traditional officewear with flourishes of glamour – whether the addition of an elegant Valentino Garavani evening glove to a classic double-breasted jacket and pinstripe trouser, a line of studs along the side seam of an otherwise formal grey wool trouser by Gucci, or an intricately embroidered jacket by Kim Jones at Dior combined with a striped beret by rising British milliner James Pink. 

Man in suit in office turnstyle

Jacket, £2,359; shirt, £490; tie, £160; trousers, price on request, all by Celine Homme by Hedi Slimane. Gloves, £490, by Valentino Garavani

(Image credit: Photography by Dorothy Sing Zhang, styling by Ben Schofield)

Man with jumper around neck with candle

Jumper (around neck), £550, by Missoni. Coat, £960, by Louis Vuitton

(Image credit: Photography by Dorothy Sing Zhang, styling by Ben Schofield)

Man sat on pile of chairs in grey coat

Jacket £3,200; turtleneck, £1,050; trousers, £620; boots, £1,400; gloves, £650, all by Prada

(Image credit: Photography by Dorothy Sing Zhang, styling by Ben Schofield)

Man on floor with house plant

Top, €450; trousers, €850; ring, €295, all by Balenciaga. Boots, £1,400, by Prada. Necklace, £1,100, by Gucci. Hat, price on request, by Noel Stewart. Gloves, £490, by Valentino Garavani

(Image credit: Photography by Dorothy Sing Zhang, styling by Ben Schofield)

Man in leather jacket pressing button for lift

Jacket, £2,200; turtleneck, £465, both by Paul Smith

(Image credit: Photography by Dorothy Sing Zhang, styling by Ben Schofield)

Man at table by vending machine

Jacket, price on request; jacket (worn underneath), £5,200; shirt, £830; trousers, £1,150, all by Dior. Boots, £1,400, by Prada. Hat, £95, by James Pink Studio

(Image credit: Photography by Dorothy Sing Zhang, styling by Ben Schofield)

Man by open locker with birthday cake inside

Jacket, £800, by Herno. Trousers, £2,360, by Gucci. Shoes £1,120, by John Lobb. Veil, price on request, by Noel Stewart

(Image credit: Photography by Dorothy Sing Zhang, styling by Ben Schofield)

Models: Aditya at Next Models, Freddie at Models 1, Otto Fuchs. Casting: Sam Franco. Grooming: Mike O’Gorman at Saint Luke Artists. Photography assistants: Conor Rollins, Anqi Liu. Fashion assistants: Dominik Radomski, Kit Swann. 

A version of this article appears in the December 2022 Entertaining Issue of Wallpaper*, available in print, on the Wallpaper* app on Apple iOS, and to subscribers of Apple News +. Subscribe to Wallpaper* today

Fashion Features Editor

Jack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper*, joining the team in 2022. Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines, he has also contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Mr Porter’s The Journal and more, while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.

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