June 2016

Giorgio Armani was obsessed with identity for his Emporio Armani collection. He printed his invite, backdrop and clothes with a fingerprint - we assume his own. Maybe Mr Armani has trouble unlocking his iPhone via the touch ID thingy -

Andreas Melbostad had been leafing through “Small Trades”, a book of Irving Penn portraits of workmen in the fifties, when designing his Spring 2017 Diesel Black Gold Collection. Given the foundation  of the label in denim - the fabric of

We know a few men who’d like to wrestle with a couple of bears in their sleeping bag and pitch a tent. Did we get enough innuendos in? Well, anyway, get your minds out of the gutter - that’s not

A stacked walkway slanting heavenwards; a soundtrack of nineties rave hits; dark silhouettes slashed with neon; and loads and loads and loads of brilliant clothes. That was the notion of the motion behind Prada's spring 2017 outing, inspired by the

Vivienne Westwood's show opened with a video pleaing with the government for the release of Julian Assange. "He needs some sun!" implored Westwood. Maybe that notion influenced this collection - designed by Andreas Kronthaler but with politics care of Dame

Phillip Plein not only knows how to put on a show, but wants to. And makes no qualms about it. That's why our latest excursion to Pleinland started not on a catwalk but on a basketball court. Somewhere between the

Modernist Retro. For spring, Neil Barrett continued his aesthetic journey through his formative years - seventies snd eighties England - that began with his Winter collection, gathering references with a nostalgic familiarity and reinterpreting them to be contemporary. This time,

Lightness was the notion Rodolfo Paglialunga was obsessing over for his Spring Jil Sander show. Clever guy. Because when it's stiflingly hot you want to wear light stuff - and with the dual modern evils of global warming and combi

Maybe Conseulo Castiglioni has been watching Magic Mike? Because her Spring Marni collections defining motif was, um, Velcro. Running right up the back of coats and jackets to promise a tearaway revelation to rival Roxxxy Andrews double-wig reveal on RuPaul's

The gentlemen of Versace– that was Donatella Versace's inspo for her Spring menswear outing. You don't normally think of the Versace man as a gentleman, to be honest. You think of him as a great hulking Rambo in barocco leopard

Is anything sexier than a musician? Maybe a musician dressed in Dolce & Gabbana. Or maybe a musician BY Dolce and Gabbana, as their inspirations for Spring were music men, but not the sort that come from down our way.