TheSims.com has published a brand new blog post about the upcoming Kit for The Sims 4. In case you’ve just heard the news, The Sims 4 Modern Menswear Kit has been announced and will be releasing on December 2nd!
Check out more details and screens on this upcoming Kit:
The Sims™ has always been a creative destination where players come to express themselves, discover new experiences and play with life.
To further empower players to find new and expressive paths to self-discovery, and to deliver on the promise of providing more contemporary menswear options, The Sims worked with the British Fashion Council – a not-for-profit organization supporting British design talent and championing responsible and creative businesses to further strengthen British fashion around the globe – to Simify an up-and-coming menswear brand and help stretch style boundaries with its next fashion kit, The Sims™ 4 Modern Menswear Kit.
Welcome to The Sims’s virtual closet, Stefan Cooke.
Helmed by Central Saint Martins graduates Stefan Cooke and partner Jake Burt, the award-winning, London-based label – named after Cooke – is un-defining traditional menswear. “We’re taking quintessential menswear items and repurposing them, whether it’s through textiles or silhouette,” explains Cooke.
“The brand is about redefining masculinity,” continues Cooke. “We always try to be authentic, and without excluding anyone. We’re about redeveloping and refining old ideas, but making them incredibly modern, and pushing that idea to the point that it transcends things like gender.”
For The Sims 4 Modern Menswear Kit, Stefan Cooke worked with The Sims team to bring a wide-range of new-age menswear to players and creators around the globe. Consisting of 23 pieces, all of which are Simified recreations of real-world Stefan Cooke collections, the garments range from the traditional to the revolutionary, masculine to effeminate, and fusions of them all. There’s jackets, trousers, suits, and shoes, as well as some of the designers’ favorite pieces, including the Stefan Cooke Wool Varsity Coat with Skirt, a design that perfectly encapsulates the evolution of modern menswear.
Alongside the dynamic shapes and silhouettes, fabric is another quintessential Stefan Cooke characteristic. The former brings us deeper into the boundless future of menswear, while the latter pays homage to the familiar classics.
“Each material was carefully hand-painted to emulate the texture qualities by doing somewhat of a caricature of the details,” explains Vincent Joly, Senior Art Director for The Sims. “Exaggerating the shapes and controlling the contrast to not look too busy or photorealistic, at the same time not reducing the details too much to lose the essence of the fabrics. Each piece was tuned to find that sweet spot.”
Burt and Cooke are not just looking forward to seeing their styles democratized and digitized, they’re also excited for the self-exploration that their kit will inspire, both within The Sims and in the real world.
“I hope people become more explorative with what they’re wearing, especially if they’re guys,” says Burt. “I think it’s a good thing if people feel more comfortable and unafraid to wear what they want to wear.”
“Fashion can be about identifying as part of something, but also as your own person. It’s both for community and individualism,” adds Cooke. “That’s why fashion is so amazing. It can be the slightest thing, and it can really change how you feel about yourself or what you want to put across to the world.”
The Sims™ 4 Modern Menswear Kit will be available beginning December 2, 2021 on PC and Mac via Origin™ and Steam®, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One systems.
I don’t hate it, but the pleated and the frilled skirt I’m not big on, I get the redefining masculinity thing that’s cool, that’s good but those are already items with such feminine connotations. I feel like if the pleated one was a little longer, and more of a modernised kilt it could be pretty cool, the frilled one I’m not sure could be fixed, I really like the draped skirt over the leggings paired with the shirt the ginger guy holding the coffee is wearing though, that feels more barrier breaking and androgynous than the other skirts and it looks comfortable and wearable rather than awkward. I guess what’s super facepalm here is that as a nonbinary person, if this had been marketed as an ungendered clothing collection and ran with similar promo pictures, I’d have been stoked at what I’d have read as representation, but instead it’s been heavily gendered and feels like it’s missed the mark.
not gonna lie… this is really ugly
i checked on this designers instagram and these clothes dont look this bad in real life…they just didnt translate to the game well at all…
Male sims can already wear skirts in game. Yes some of the skirts look weird on male sims but that’s true for female sims too. It all depends on the body type. I’ve made transgender sims in game and never had a problem finding them something to wear. I’d have preferred if this kit was more reflective of Scottish culture with true kilts in many varieties of tartan colors. The fact that a London-based designer duo is co-opting Scottish designs and claiming them as “modern” by changing hemlines on traditional clothing styles is ridiculous. I’d like the Sims team to give us more cultures and related items in game. Not this gender-neutral stuff that is nonsense.
While this is a very unique set of clothing options, I’m not sold on this Kit. Male Sims need a lot of good-looking basic clothing options via a free update. Give us more facial hair and hairstyles before making a kit…
nobody actually wears this lol
Would it kill them to just once put out simple mens’ clothes, no rips/tears, no weird detailing, no patterns… Just basics like Peacemaker’s jeans, shirts, tanks, and pajamas.
Who wears this??? I never seen a man where something like this.
Hard pass.
Not another dime until they fix the Cottage Living Lag/bloat…
I love Sims 4 but these packs are becoming a joke now, your only getting a couple of items and for the price its not worth it at all, that’s why I would rather give my money to a CC creator who put more effort in than EA who just care about the money an not these packs they create. And this one has to be the worse out of them all by far am sorry but men don’t dress like that, I know the demography they are aiming for but they need try a bit hard but this is just a big no for me I wont be buying this pack.