Raf Simons: Menswear SS20
You can thank the composer Mica Levi for the haunting soundtrack at last night’s Raf Simons show. The original score for the 2014 horror smash Under the Skin starring Scarlett Johansson: it was the...
You can thank the composer Mica Levi for the haunting soundtrack at last night’s Raf Simons show. The original score for the 2014 horror smash Under the Skin starring Scarlett Johansson: it was the...
Jun Takahashi’s Undercover registers with the fashion elite, and since its inception in 1993, this gothic-flexed and Tokyo-based brand has been permanently making cool. Takahashi’s creative...
Nip, cinch, tuck, slash, twist. In a seemingly random game of fashion mash, Glenn Martens concocted his SS20 collection for Y/ Project. And boy, was it fun. Season after season, the complex ideas of...
JW Anderson has been at the shears cutting up all manner of eveningwear to create some beautiful things. When he wasn’t chopping at the lapels of a dinner jacket, and fashioning them into a scarf,...
The Cottweiler boys ditched the cruising grounds that inspired their AW19 collection for somewhere a little hotter this time around. Though we weren’t whisked off to an unbeknown location...
A series of paths led models through a garden of white carnations. The SS20 Off-White show has started. And on they came: padded jackets and graffiti-strewn white denim; this same graffiti then came...
As the fashion crowds land into the heat of Parisian sun, a new dawn of talent rises. This season more so than ever before, the first day of Paris Fashion Week seems to be the unofficial day of...
“The trousers are so fluid they appear to be a size too big,” read the press notes for the Giorgio Armani menswear SS20 show, earlier today. This emphasis on fluidity ran throughout the...
While most designers keep their cards close to their chest ahead of shows, Jonathan Anderson loves to take a different route. Instead of veiling his collections with mystery, Anderson builds the...
Dissecting hardworking gardening gear and re-purposing the codes to create a contemporary men’s wardrobe was the aim of Fendi’s Creative Director Silvia Venturini Fendi at her standout...
Born in Canada, living in London, made in Italy. It’s the motto of the design talent behind this high-octane and hugely successful luxury brand. The designer twins, Dean and Dan Caton, love the...
The skill and artful craft of Etro is legendary. It’s a patchouli-soaked world of exceptional fabrications and decades of beautiful clothes in the finest luxury fabrics. And travel. Etro has long...
As graduates of the respected Royal Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp, the creative brains behind men’s fashion label Les Hommes Tom Notte and Bart Vandebosch, have developed a strong visual language....
A shoe is not a shoe unless it carries the “Made in Italy” label on its sole. And of those shoes carrying the label, Santoni’s are one of the superior ones. Launched in 1975 and...
The Armani business model is a lesson in diffusion. The various lines retain their own specific identity and appeal; each one speaking to its own specific audience – but these customers...
This luxury Italian brand doesn’t do things by half. For their knockout SS20 show on Friday night, the fashion and manufacturing behemoth ferried the global menswear fashion corps to the outskirts...
In the past 47 years, Pitti Uomo transformed from a menswear fair into a platform establishing the hottest names in menswear. Despite the strong presence of tailoring remaining at its core, the focus...
There’s no feeling that matches the excitement of discovering an emerging designer, a name you haven’t heard before but whose talent blows you away. What once happened only rarely –...
The California-based contemporary artist Sterling Ruby presented his new fashion label S.R.Studio.LA.CA. in Florence this evening. The clothes, a mix of womenswear and men’s, further explored the...
To a sports stadium outside Florence this morning, for the MSGM show we went. And, on to the floor of which, the brand’s designer Massimo Giorgetti, had projected footage of an inviting azure blue...
Photographs by Morgan Hill Murphy and styled by Kamran Rajput We all remember those summer holidays spent at home. Long before the idea of a ‘staycation’ became a successful marketing...
The incredible Giardino all’ Italiana on the outskirts of Florence was the setting for the Givenchy SS20 menswear show under the creative direction of Clare Waight Keller the British designer and...
If anybody were any doubt of the rude health of the menswear fashion market right now: a trip to Pitti is in order. The twice-yearly menswear trade show has become a launch pad for both up-and-coming...
Before the madness of London Fashion Week Men’s commenced, the master of the chunky loafer announced his return. This coming Autumn, as Womenswear Daily reported, Patrick Cox will be back on the...
There’s no one we’d rather see in the closing spot of London Fashion Week Men’s than Bethany Williams. Representative of positive change and an optimistic outlook on what happens to be a pretty...
And off to Surrey Quays we went. For the last day of this season’s LFWM, designers decided to take us on a tour of South London. After Craig Green’s serenity in colourama, Samuel Ross led the way...
Craig Green’s first exits and new proposal for SS20 spoke to SS19’s commercially successful shadow-print cotton pieces, as the designer laid together, what appeared to be, patches of suede...
Paria Farzaneh’s show started with an olfactory experience, a sweet-smelling musky scent filled the high ceilinged industrial space; a disused power station in Wapping. In the centre of a square...
What is a menswear collection without a single pair of trousers? The elaborate answer to this simple question was on display at today’s Xander Zhou show. Literally. Instead of a traditional catwalk...
It’s a year of big celebrations at Chalayan. For the past 25 years, Hussein Chalayan has been designing clothes that weren’t just part of a bigger conversation but was the catalyst for change. A...
“What we do every season is the alternative creative masculinity and this time the dresses were the first things we started with and built it from there,” said Per Götesson backstage. “This...
Three shows in one: Fashion East is the conveyor belt of young London fashion design talent, and a must-watch in the capital’s frantic LFWM schedule. When models walk at such a pace,...
Swathes of white cotton sheets pegged onto adjoining washing lines filling the centre of the catwalk bellowed gently with the breeze as guests passed by taking their seats. The set design by...
Against the backdrop of the harsh skyline crafting the City of London, Martine Rose came back to LFWM. And when we say back – we mean BACK. After another season out (this is the second time in...
In the case of emerging designers, constant reinvention often becomes a burden disabling their true talent to come through. Hype then turns into the main instrument these designers feed their ideas...
Contemporary British menswear wouldn’t be what it is without Alexander McQueen. The late designer originally started the men’s part of his brand back in the season of SS05, with a...
Serene. A word we wouldn’t usually use to describe the work of everyone’s favourite loverboy Charles Jeffrey. But that’s exactly how we felt after his show last night. It was a...
First look out: a black pair of trousers and a black t-shirt. Was this a new, minimal era of Liam Hodges? Not quite. Primitive futurism mixed with cyberpunk ideologies in a cast of individuals, each...
A spiritual experience at a spiritual place. Instead of just sitting, watching and awkwardly clapping, Nicholas Daley had us smiling, dancing and “wooh”-ing at his SS20 show. From an intimate gig...
When you’ve been at shows since 9am everyone needs a little pick me up. There’s only so much that mini bottles of Evian and copious packets of free lentil chips or a cereal bar can do. Luckily...
Without the help of a weather shaman – as far as we know at least – Edward Crutchley had the sun out for his SS20 show. Held in the courtyard of Haberdashers’ Hall, a procession of...
If London Fashion Week was Love Island, we’d pick Ahluwalia Studio to be couple up with on the first week. Her today’s London Fashion Week Men’s debut might have been a wonderful surprise for...
A bleary-eyed bunch took their seats for the first show of the second season in the BFC’s east London show space, sandwiched snugly between Spitalfields Market and Brick Lane in The Old Truman...
Entering Plaisterers’ Hall this evening felt a world away from the universe Kiko Kostadinov has crafted thus far. Giant chandeliers hung from the ceiling as we sat beneath the watchful gaze of...
As we look at the rich schedule of the rich LFWM (kicking off today), there’s something is missing. For the first time in almost a decade, Astrid Andersen isn’t showing on-schedule. Ahead of...
With sandy toes and sunny kisses, Anthony Vaccarello hosted the West Coast part of the destination show tour. Surrounded by the shiniest Hollywood glitterati (Miley Cyrus, Keanu Reeves and Hailee...
Photograph by Markn It’s that time of year again. Dig out your rarest pair of Cottweiler trackies, or the baggiest Martine Rose sweatshirt you own – London Fashion Week Men’s SS20 is...
Pregnant men, yetis and models on stilts. There’s never a boring moment at a Xander Zhou show, each just a bit more absurd than the previous one. The inspirations at the core? The world of...
As we enter the industrial Silo Hall of Minsheng Wharf in the east part of Shanghai, we are met by a grid of neon lights that stretch from the floor to the ceiling. The volt of space seems massive...
Are you due a digital detox? Shocked by your screen time usage and overwhelmed with the urge to get offline? Yearning to take a break from social media, delete those apps you never use and finally...
It’s that time of year again when we beg and borrow camping chairs from our grandparents, stack up on the tinnies and head to a field in the middle of nowhere to drench ourselves in glitter and...
Pyer Moss SS19; photo by Angela Weiss for Getty London Fashion Week Men’s has had a second coming in recent years. Once skipped by major fashion editors, it has morphed into a four-day fashion...
As Pride month comes along, the invasion of rainbow-hued products start flying in. Coming along for the pink pound tornado, an influx of queer ambassadors front special campaigns urging us to be free...