Fashion East: Ready-to-wear AW21
Despite the hardships of the pandemic, Lulu Kennedy’s talent incubator, Fashion East, remains a pillar of London’s creative scene. Closing out digital London Fashion Week, the non-profit...
Despite the hardships of the pandemic, Lulu Kennedy’s talent incubator, Fashion East, remains a pillar of London’s creative scene. Closing out digital London Fashion Week, the non-profit...
How do you make a digital fashion presentation breathtakingly poignant? Per Götesson answerd that question with a short film entitled Piece by Piece. As the narrative unfolds we follow a lone man...
In some ways, you could say Antonio Vattev was born in the wrong generation. The Central Saint Martins grad is enamoured with the 1970s, and pays homage to the louche fashions of David Bowie and Mick...
“With no show, it was even more important that it was about the clothes,” said Dunhill creative director, Mark Weston, who unveiled his AW21 collection with a film at LFW. The designer is...
The great outdoors continues to be an inspiration for Riccardo Tisci, who presented his first dedicated men’s show for the brand. Called Escapes, he teased it with clips of models running free...
“I think we’ve never done a collection that’s so selfish before,” says a confident Luca Marchetto over Zoom. He’s set next to his creative partner – and the other half...
Revelling in functionality, utilitarian aesthetics, and unconventional materials embedded by advanced technology, Xander Zhou has fabricated his way into the future. The designer’s imaginative...
In a year of total fashion flux, where the pressure on young designers to conform in order to survive is more intense than ever, Miles George Daniel is a beacon of hope. The Middlesex University grad...
Since founding her eponymous label in 2017, Bianca Saunders has carved herself as a multihyphenate. Whilst the Coronavirus pandemic has forced many of her London-based contemporaries to dabble in new...
Over the course of the past twelve months, Eden Loweth’s Art School has undergone a second coming. With Loweth’s ex-partner and Art School’s co-founder, Tom Barratt, exiting the...
Molly Goddard is redefining comfort dressing, one hot pink flounce at a time. Her idea of it is, “something that is very special but you feel you can go and do anything in it.” For Goddard,...
Priya Ahluwalia is a bit of a bookworm. Her closest group of friends swap titles amongst one another on a regular basis and a recommendation that cropped up about a year ago was Homegoing by Yaa...
A common theme threaded throughout Saul Nash’s work is self-liberation. For the past three seasons, showing as part of Fashion East, the Royal College of Art alum has specialised in technical...
Contrast and exaggeration are the two defining forces at the heart of Maxxij. The emerging South Korean designer uses fashion as a vehicle for expressing his “erratic and exquisite point of view”...
A forever-favourite each season, menswear maven Nicholas Daley yet again takes London Fashion Week by storm with the release of a short film dubbed Stepping Razor. Daley’s SS21 collection...
Some ideas are just too good to leave in the archive. Vivienne Westwood dug deep for AW21. She reached into her brilliant back catalogue, pulling out some of her best ideas and reinterpreting them...
Gorging on texture, fabric and fantastical shapes, Matty Bovan has crafted his way out of the pandemic. The designer’s resilience and resourcefulness came to the fore, over the past 12 months. He...
It’s grim up’t North, well not according to Edward Crutchley. The London-based designer, who grew up in the Yorkshire Dales, hasn’t been home for a year and countryside life has...
If you weren’t awake yet, you are now. This morning, menswear designer Rory Parnell Mooney christened a new season of London shows with leopard print corsets, leather chaps and semi-sheer going...
Harris Reed isn’t one to comply with convention. Despite only graduating from Central Saint Martins back in May, the gender-fluid designer has put out a collection with MAC Cosmetics – which...
As we gear up for another season of digital shows, the fashion industry of today is completely unrecognisable to one we occupied a year ago from now. The idea of being crammed into tightly-packed...
If you’re in the know when it comes to emerging Paris fashion talent, you’ll be well aware of Pierre Kaczmarek. The young designer made his Paris Fashion Week debut back in 2016 with his...
Have you stopped by at Tommy’s Drop Shop yet? The e-store is Tommy Hilfiger’s ultimate spot for experimentation, where creatives from across the globe are invited to create...
I met Roni Helou when he came to London in August 2018, when he was representing Lebanon at an exhibition of emerging designers, the International Fashion Showcase. Immediately, he made an impression...
Roses are red, violets are blue, Valentine’s Day in lockdown is shit, what are we supposed to do? Trying to get romantic with your partner is hard when you’re stuck in the house together...
Another week has gone by and the shops are still shut. Will the high street open up anytime soon? We wish we could answer that question. What we do know, however, is that there’s plenty of...
Where Kiko Kostadinov succeeds is his ability to bulldoze a myriad of references into one another under a singular, cohesive vision. Dropping his AW21 men’s collection today through a virtual...
This was a season of change for Off-White. In response to the pandemic, Virgil Abloh has brought his mens- and womenswear collections together for the first time. Moving forward, he will also show...
With each collection, emerging Icelandic designer Arnar Mār Jōnsson builds around four garment categories: jackets, shirts, anoraks and trousers. Based out of London, the namesake label –...
If you’re anything like us, the novelty of ordering a load of parcels during lockdown has probably worn off. What’s the point in buying a bunch of new clothes when you always end up going...
With government guidelines insisting that all non-essential retail remains closed till further notice, a swanky new Louis Vuitton Men’s pop-up sits empty inside the halls of Selfridges....
Jawara Alleyne is on a mission to define a fresh perspective on masculinity; envisioning new, exciting stories for men through dress. The 29-year-old, London-based designer was one of the standout...
Charles de Vilmorin is in a league of his own. Freshly graduated from École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, the designer dropped his first collection straight to Instagram back in...
Unable to travel to Paris due to travel restrictions, Comme des Garçons will show all its collections in Tokyo, until the pandemic is over. Last night saw Rei Kawakubo unveil her Homme Plus AW21...
What will you wear to the party at the end of the universe? Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli has some thoughts. His Couture is a reckoning of life, the universe and everything. He calls it the...
Where’s your comfort zone? Nearly a year into the pandemic and we’re all still in sweats. If only there was an alternative – something that was as easy as a tracksuit but had a bit more...
This was a great season for Y/Project, possibly the brand’s strongest collection yet. The global pandemic has pushed Glenn Martens to unify his mens- and womenswear collections moving forward....
If you go down to the woods today, there’s a good chance you might bump into a cohort of exceptionally dressed guys and girls. That’s because this morning, Wooyoungmi opened the final day...
If you’re a Ludovic de Saint Sernin fanatic, you’re probably gagging for what the designer has up his sleeve for next season. Following up from his SS21 E-boy collection, Ludovic...
Spencer Phipps is having a whole lot of fun whilst navigating this strange, URL fashion world we now live in. For the past two iterations of Paris Fashion Week men’s, the Californian designer...
Casablanca is a label defined by aspirational luxury. Designer Charaf Tajer has looked to traditional French Maisons like Chanel and Cartier to form the pillars of his menswear. Pillars that are...
“Our approach to clothing is currently undergoing a transformation, and my job is to come up with propositions.” So says the woman who has overseen Hermès menswear collections since 1988....
Over the course of the pandemic, Jonathan Anderson has re-defined what a fashion show can be with his ‘show in a box’, ‘show in a life-size poster’ and ‘show on a shirt’ concepts. Next up...
During this morning’s Namacheko film, you could barely see any clothes. That’s because the fuzzy, rapid-fire clip was shot in a gloomy space on 16mm film. Siblings Lezan and Dilan Lurr...
Today marked a closing chapter for Wales Bonner. AW21 was the final instalment to a triptych of collections that explored connections between Britain and the Caribbean. The journey began this time...
GmbH is a label fed by real-life experience. The two founders – Serhat Isik and Benjamin Huseby – met on a Berlin dancefloor in 2015, and have since been making...
There’s a very masculine glamour to the pomp of ceremonial military uniforms and a flourish of subversion, too. The Beatles knew it when they borrowed from military regalia for their Sargent Pepper...
This season, Botter swapped show notes for a manifesto. “We care about fashion, as the golden daughter of all arts. We care about nature, as the golden mother of all arts,” it read....
On the surface, it’s easy to dismiss Boramy Viguier’s work as political. The emerging Parisian designer uses fashion as a vehicle for sheer fantasy. Why do your run-of-the-mill fashion...
Raf fanboys of the world, unite and take over. Whilst any decent thing to happen last year was seemingly overshadowed by (insert global pandemic), 2020 had some pretty impressive accolades. In the...
It was a wardrobe for “barbaric contradictory times,” said Rick Owens of his AW21 men’s collection. Named Gethsemane after the garden that Jesus prayed in the night before the crucifixion, his...