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First spotted by Vogue China co-founder and ex-Editor in Chief of Vogue Australia, Nancy Pilcher, in 2010, Song for the Mute, a progressive menswear label by Sydney based duo, Melvin Tenaya and Lyna Ty, are starting to hit their strides. The pair won this years L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival Designer Award, then followed it up with a Young Designer of the Year gong at Singapore’s inaugural Men’s Fashion Week. Song doe the Mute’s award-winning collections featured a raft of wool-derived wonders: boiled wool coats, reversible boiled wool backpacks and their signature single-pleated, J-shaped ‘curve pants’, made from double wool jersey and Japanese denim. The objective of Song for the Mute is ‘to merge construction with the fabric to showcase the fabric itself’, says Tanaya. Lyna Ty, the brand’s Parisian- born designer and co-founder echoes: ‘We choose fabrics that talk to us in a certain way. To us, the design comes after we fall in love with the fabric, not the other way.’

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