Alexander McQueen: Menswear AW19
Knock-knock. Who’s there? A menswear collection of tailored perfection, hailing directly from the mind of Sarah Burton. Dropping totally out of the blue, without a sign or explanation,...
Knock-knock. Who’s there? A menswear collection of tailored perfection, hailing directly from the mind of Sarah Burton. Dropping totally out of the blue, without a sign or explanation,...
Before we go in, a brief history: Hedi Slimane changed men’s fashion forever. At Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Dior Homme then back to Saint Laurent as the creative behind both men’s and womenswear...
A cultural exchange in clothing. This seemed to be the underlying message at this afternoon’s Kenzo show in Paris. The designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon focused on Leon’s Chinese-Peruvian...
It’s officially official – suits are back in town, for everyday and everyone. After a few years of casualness leading the way in menswear, it’s time to go back to daily elegance. Leave...
Broken down into single garments, it’s easy to understand why the Wooyoungmi aesthetic speaks directly to a cool, young fashion customer: autumn’s wardrobe of football shorts and knits; puffa...
Sneakerheads: that very same Nike collaboration is happening again and out autumn; this time it’s grey and white. Some had fur on. The spring version, in red and green, sold out. Well, will sell...
On her design process at Hermès, Creative Director of Menswear Veronique Nichanian, has said “I design one piece like an object and after I design the pants, the jacket, the sweater. I mix them...
Fusing garments that really belong in a different drawer with something that should have been hung properly in that wardrobe in the spare bedroom; Thom Browne created a series of closet chimeras:...
You wouldn’t expect anything less from a pattern cutter: before his duties as fashion’s unofficial chief idea-generator, Junya Watanabe was the man who made the House of Comme des Garçons come...
Oh, you can try and unpack Comme des Garçons but you’ll be there all day. Designer Kawakubo neither explains nor comments; she’s not for words. Her work, she says, is her explanation – but...
In 2011 Olivier Rousteing was named Creative Director of Balmain; he was just 25-years-old. Since then he has created a design signature, which he cleverly reinterprets every season for his women’s...
“I’m happy to finally give birth — I feel like it’s been 10 months instead of nine, so I’m way overdue,” Kris van Assche told WWD before the outing of his first show for Berluti. Van...
The Internet is a very dark place, and Demna Gvasalia is happy to poke his face into it, taking all of us on the ride, courtesy of his Vetements AW19 show. “Warning!! What you are about to witness...
It’s quiet before a Rick Owens show, like in a church. And we are in a way, and here to pay our respect to a designer held, by his fans, in god-like, status. Today’s service was held in the Anne...
The luxury trade has never been as alive with revolution (and competition). All houses have the new high-spending, luxury-hungry Gen Z-ers in their sights. It’s these young men, who are fuelling a...
Virgil Abloh is prolific and successful. His designs for the Louis Vuitton spring menswear collection have, reportedly, already sold 30% more in the first 48 hours in-store, than the brand’s...
Clare Waight Keller is flying high. Her women’s collection for Givenchy is one of the hottest properties in fashion and even won her the much-coveted British Womenswear Designer of The Year award...
Atmosphere, the opening track of last night Raf Simons show, his first since leaving as creative director of Calvin Klein, holds a special place amongst Joy Division fans. It’s the track played at...
The cut-and-paste, Tumblr-like mind of Jonathan Anderson is impressive. His work stands out as one of the most researched and curious amongst his peers. He reads and pours over books and manuals;...
2 Become 1 by the Spice Girls must have been playing in the Valentino atelier during the making of their AW19 men’s collection. For the season, Pierpaolo Piccioli’s vision wasn’t just his –...
Pastries, liquorice, porcelain, hygge… The Danes know what’s good in life, and they aren’t afraid to share it with the world. Prime example: Han Kjøbenhavn. Launched in 2008 by...
For the first show of AW19 Paris Fashion Week Men’s the Palais de Tokyo’s Galerie Haute was transformed into an immersive thriving airport terminal. Multilingual announcements rang out across the...
The two founders of GMBH, the “club dance floor to runway”, Berlin-based fashion brand, are Serhat Isik and Benjamin Husely. They, and their collective operate at the bleeding edge of...
A travelling salesman, fond of trips abroad, and, who is possibly a pervert, sets off to work in a see-through mesh-y trouser. You can see his pants. Absolute hotness. It was a great Fendi AW19 show...
This was Jonathan Anderson’s first runway show for Loewe menswear: cable-knit jumpers sewn with semi-precious stones looked vintage, as did a long-sleeved jumper covered with all manner of patches,...
Even city boys take time off: for you, a roomier trouser and a jogging bottom that’s too smart for the running machine. Wear this with any of the exceptional knits: two were fabulous and used a new...
Without a pull-fastening, tech-y fabric or carabiner in sight, this tailored collection, in shops Autumn, spoke of 1990s long-lined minimalism in a palate of camel and grey, navy and black and...
Neon lights flashing in a circular motif, reminiscent of bumper car arenas in those old-school amusement parks. And so our childhood memories came to life at the Marcelo Burlon County of Milan AW19...
With drinks flowing and beats pounding, Dean and Dan Caten presented their music-infused vision for Dsquared2 AW19. But forget about your regular seated catwalk show. This season, it was all about...
Mrs Prada’s work sits at the intermix of gender, politics and policy. It’s an all-incorporating “mood board”, which is more socio-political than “aesthetically pleasing”. But her work is...
For vintage car fans, the Ford Thunderbird holds hero-status. The super-rare and collectable car revolutionised automobile design in the 1950s when the “T-bird” was born. The effusive chat and...
It’s been 21 years since Donatella Versace took the helm of the clothing empire she built with her two brothers Gianni and Santo. And in September last year, Michael Kors Holdings acquired the...
In his new concrete and beautifully austere headquarters in Milan, the British designer Neil Barrett presented his autumn collection on a black catwalk dotted with giant LED screens. On these, played...
Under the tenure of designer Francesco Risso, Marni Menswear has a special place in the minds of the fashion press and in the wardrobes of those who buy it. Within a relatively short period of time,...
Tailoring intersected with hi-vis hoodies and mashed with references to cycling and mountaineering; a kind of outdoor pursuits in the city. The Les Hommes designers Tom Notte and Bart Vandebosch have...
Planned arrival time: 8.30, Milan Time. Estimated Arrival Time: 9:00, Milan time. Quite in-tune with the nature of its rail station setting, the Ermenegildo Zegna AW19 show ran exactly half an hour...
With stints at Valentino, Berluti, Zegna and Cerutti, yesterday’s knockout show from Aldo Maria Camillo conveyed a message of a “new luxury”. Translated this meant a series impeccably cut...
“…are delighted to invite you to the AW19 Pitti special guest show of Y/Project”. It was, said insiders, going to be “something quite special – wrap up warm.” In the Chiostro...
For the big finale of this season’s London Fashion Week Men’s, the crowds emerged into arguably the gayest of the capital’s spaces – XXL in Southwark. But instead of the usual neon flashes...
The audience sat submerged in shadowy darkness behind a body of water, which flanked the side of the horizontally running catwalk. Samuel Ross presented A-Cold-Wall’s AW19 collection...
British fashion designer Craig Green has established himself as the go-to show on the London Menswear calendar. And this morning’s line-out (a presentation of his clothes due in shops next autumn)...
The capital’s conveyor belt of fashion design talent, Fashion East, continues to add a seemingly limitless register of exciting new names to the London Fashion Week Menswear schedule. Tonight the...
Word of the day, courtesy of Chalayan’s press notes – pretension. But what might have a negative connotation in the minds of the general public, Hussein Chalayan turns into a positive outlook...
A baker boy hat, a pair of pegged trousers and a chunky brogue – you know the guy. Handsomely modern but with a sense of nostalgia in his dressing – we might as well be describing...
With moss-covered porcelain urinals standing in the middle of a car park, twelve floors underground, the mood for the night was clearly set. We could have been in one of the dark alleys of the deep...
And back to the future we went thanks to Liam Hodges and his AW19 show. Recognising the pre-apocalyptic world we’re living in, Liam is getting ready for the whatever danger is ahead. “Fashion has...
You can’t argue with London’s “soft power”. For a relatively small global city, we punch well above our weight. The capital’s creative voice, and the influence it commands, is respected...
Are you a daredevil on in the piste, with a penchant for a black run? Or do you prefer to keep it more arès-ski? Whether you’re more partial the streets or the slopes, either way you’ll be...
Aaaaand, we’re off! New year, new us, but the same old London Fashion Week Men’s. Well, you’d think so, at least. But no, AW19 seems to be a season of totally new beginnings as the show hub...