DAZED DIGITAL: “A California-born Swede living in New York City. Quite the combination, don’t you think? And Patrik Ervell’s S/S11 collection had a little of all three those elements in it; the preppy NYC look, Swedish minimalism and the LA-esque nonchalance of Bret Easton Ellis books about life on the US west coast.”

VOGUE.CO.UK/MAX BERLINGER: “His collections are able to be both void of meaning and simultaneously incredibly personal and deeply felt. There is an awkwardness and a hyper-normality to the pieces he makes. He yields clothing that is strangely innocent and endearing, like a young boy trying on his father’s suit.”

GQ: “The Ervellian art-school lad is all grown up. (…) He broods in short-sleeved dress shirts, camel elbow-patched sweaters, and subtly quirky turquoise chinos rolled up with bucks. He’s controlled, self-assured, and, more importantly, still rad as hell in his post-adolescent years.”

WWD: “A lot of men’s designers are fixated on youth and find different ways to idealize it. Ervell, on the other hand, keeps forcing us to contemplate the most painfully awkward stage of adolescence — the one where everything is just an inch too short and the attempts to dress up are sweet but pathetic. We’re dying to see the kid develop a little.”

@StyleSalvage: “Favourite detail of NYFW thus far? For me it’s the horse hair braiding used on the straps of Patrik Ervell’s rucksacks.”