Just a perfect day, feed animals in the zoo, then later, a movie, too, and then home.
Lou Reed may have just prescribed the perfect date. Too often we get to know each other only in the cloak of night, in the crevasses of noise, under the illusion that some truth we seek lies in the liberation of libations. Not, as it is, in the gravity of a mirrored gaze, or the lightness of one’s laugh. Too often we lose the simple enjoyment of time passing, and miss out on the delightful awkwardness of new nuances. Sometimes, all we need to know takes but a simple walk in the park.
Just a perfect day, problems all left alone, weekenders on our own.
It’s such fun.
Park life to nightlife perfectly describes the Tyler aesthetic. Sleek, elegant and sexy, straying free of fads or anything that will look shameful a season over. The androgynous name gives birth to a pansexual appeal that crosses the thresholds of time and gender while maintaining distinctly masculine and feminine forms. Girls get their pick of tailored, equestriennesque lines as well as flirty, flowing florals. Boys have their sleek pants and dress shirts that turn their noses up at being too stiff by flaunting a few very cunning details. Their current color palette is fireplace cozy, a dip into hazelnut creams and deep cherry chocolates.
The store is occasionally imbued with outside flavor from special guest designers who are invited to stick their creative hand in the Tyler pot. Since it opened in 2002, it has served as a temporary breeding ground to Jojie Lloren, Paolo Raymundo, Kenneth Chua, Rosanna Ocampo, and most recently, LZ Punzalan – most of whom are not usually associated with the clean and classic look, attesting to the progressive nature of Tyler philosophy. Yet, there have always been harmony and continuity within the changes, always the same point of arrival at whatever departure is made.
When not sharing the seat with guest designers, the Tyler design team consists of July Ferry, Crystal Ozamis, Mario Barreientos, Sarah Yao and Kathleen King, all young idealistic everythings who know exactly, without being rigidly specific, what Tyler design is all about. As with the idiosyncratic name itself, it can refer to anyone, but it is not just anyone. It’s definitely someone worth getting to know, from sunup till sundown.