Alexander McQueen: Menswear SS21
The Alexander McQueen team have kept themselves rather busy during lockdown. Alongside crafting a womenswear Pre-spring collection – released in November – Sarah Burton and the McQueen atelier...
The Alexander McQueen team have kept themselves rather busy during lockdown. Alongside crafting a womenswear Pre-spring collection – released in November – Sarah Burton and the McQueen atelier...
Like many concert lovers out there, northern menswear designer Daniel W. Fletcher has spent the most part of 2020 longing for live music. Away from his favourite venues, Fletcher has also used this...
If any designer was equipped to dress us for a global pandemic, it would be Craig Green. The menswear maven offers his loyal customers a sense of protection with his clothes. His garments are agile,...
Like many of us, Ludovic de Saint Sernin spent a large chunk of lockdown infinitely scrolling through TikTok. Inbetween learning Doja Cat dances and getting lost in an endless supply of haul videos,...
We would love to spend fright night at Raf Simons’ house, where the bill would feature seminal, sci-fi and teen horror flicks such as Scream, Nightmare on Elm Street, Pan’s Labyrinth, Barbarella...
Ever since Stefan Cooke and his partner Jake Burt made their Fashion East debut back in January of 2018, the design duo have quickly become one of the hottest tickets on the London Fashion Week...
Just before the global pandemic swept the globe, Grace Wales Bonner took a trip to Kingston, Jamaica. In between catching up with family, friends and loved ones, the former LVMH Prize winner paid a...
Dunhill’s Mark Weston wanted to create a SS21 collection that was a celebration of the craft of making. Call it the sourdough effect, but Weston rightly reasons that one of the upsides of the...
Martine Rose has never been one to play by the rules. Long before big-name brands began dropping off the fashion schedule and doing things by their own accord, Rose was dragging the fashion pack up...
As protests against the senseless murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless other Black bodies erupted over the globe this summer, Samuel Ross of A-Cold-Wall was one of the first...
Like many Londoners, Bianca Saunders took a trip to the Barbican earlier this year to see Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography. Here she was first introduced to The Ideal Man (1978), a...
Back in June, Priya Ahluwalia released Jalebi, a celebratory photobook and virtual exhibition that spotlighted Southall’s Punjabi community. The project, which took 18 months to put together, was...
Amidst all the digitalised fashion week madness, one collection that may have fallen under your radar (you should be disappointed if so) is that of the brilliant Parnell Mooney. After taking a hiatus...
Consistent. That is merely one adjective that could be used to describe the work of Per Götesson. Poetic is another, tender a third. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2016, the...
Getting to the Paria Farzaneh show today was no easy feat. An overground, two tubes, another 35-minute train and a short mini-bus journey later, and we arrived at the luscious green fields of...
Robyn Lynch is an avid admirer of cycling gear, and has been ever since studying for her MA at the University of Westminster. “I am such a fan of the design and technicality. The pattern...
The last ‘proper’ Paris Fashion Week – you know, the type where everyone’s smushed together across tiny rows? – took place back in March. Although this was a mere seven...
Since Nicomede Talavera made his triumphant return to the world of fashion last summer – after a four-year hiatus from the industry – the designer has been doing things on his own terms. Ditching...
And we’re back! A proper fashion show, at last. Set against a backdrop of LV-stamped shipping containers plonked along a gloomy Shanghai riverbank, Virgil Abloh finally revealed his Louis...
The digital Paris shows may be behind us, but Rei Kawakubo has never been one to play by the rules, has she? Instead of presenting her latest Comme Des Garçons Homme Plus collection in a digital...
One name we always look forward to seeing during London Fashion Week is Nicholas Daley. The menswear maven’s presentations aren’t clogged with the usual face-buried-in-phone-screens and...
2020 marks Ermenegildo Zegna’s 110th anniversary. A pretty big deal if you ask us. Yet instead of spending the last few months celebrating, the Zegna team have been hard at work, producing over...
Ding dong! It’s Gucci day and virtual show-goers were woken up with a special delivery. The house sent a crate of organic veg first thing, to get the fashion pack in the mood (make ours a fennel...
It’s become a bit of a tradition for Simon Porte Jacquemus to drag the fashion pack outside of central Paris and into the countryside for his shows. This season was a little different. The...
After celebrating 25 years of fashion high jinx, what’s next for Dsquared2? The brand’s irrepressible founders, Dean and Dan Caten, showed-off their presenting skills, fronting the video...
The show must go on. That was the view of Kean and Veronica Etro, who hosted the only catwalk show of the season so far to be presented in front of a live audience. In a joint statement, the siblings...
Anyone fancy a smooch? After months of us all being locked away from one another, MSGM used its Milan Digital Fashion Week slot to hold a full-on snog fest. Showcasing his spring/summer 21 menswear...
Why collaborate with one global creative when you can do it with five? With her first foray into digital fashion week, Mrs Prada didn’t disappoint. Rising to the occasion and the opportunity a...
Ah, what a cracking five days of URL fashions it has been! The inaugural Digital Paris Men’s Fashion Week saw brands across the board dabble into the various virtual worlds, each prepped and...
Some designers are more adept at navigating uncertain times than others, but Kim Jones’ instincts have always been impeccable. Is he part shaman? The Dior designer has an uncanny ability to...
The 1980s treated us to some splendid fashion moments, didn’t it? Shoulder pads that could barely fit through the doorframe; hair back-combed like you were just dragged through a bush;...
Another show in a box? Jonathan Anderson does know how to treat the fashion pack! After revealing JW Anderson’s latest collections through an A4-sized box packed full of keepsakes, the creative...
All change! Virgil Abloh used his slot at the digital Paris Men’s Fashion Week to instigate a further shake-up of the traditional fashion schedule. Instead of showing his Louis Vuitton...
Digital fashion weeks are great. You can watch shows just in your undies, have Loose Women on in the background and by the time a show has finished, you can simply go back to bed if you want to....
Life in lockdown has probably made you want to climb the walls a few times, we know we have… Yet now Issey Miyake is encouraging you to not only scale, but “jump over the walls you...
What’s everyone’s bets on what Oxford’s Word of The Year will be? We’re putting our money on Zoom. It seems everyone and their nan has become avid Zoomers (is that a thing?)...
Change is the only constant. Y/Project’s latest offering reflected on that with a collection of highly technical clothes designed to transform, mutate and adapt. Shouldn’t that also be a...
We know we speak for everyone when we say we’re itching to go out and dance. As pubs, shops and restaurants begin to resume business as usual, the clubbing industry stays pitch black. Yes,...
How do you make a digital fashion show provoke emotion? Hermès answered that question, kicking off the virtual couture and menswear season with a digital show entitled Hors Champ, French for “Off...
The fashion pack are often used to receiving elaborate gifts in the post. But what happens when a designer sends two entire collections to your front door one Wednesday afternoon? JW Anderson...