Paul Smith: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
This Beeston lad has expanded his Paul Smith empire into 70 countries. It’s a magic mix of tailoring skills that boils up a special brew of world-beating menswear, and has sold a brand to the world that says “Come on England!”.
Balmain: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
With menswear an estimated 40% of turnover at Balmain, the pressure is on Olivier Rousteing to deliver. And since taking over the storied French house, and shifting the sexy and glamourous codes to chime with a more couture sensibility, the
Lanvin: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
When Lanvin menswear designer Lucas Ossendrijver was an art student in Amsterdam he found a sport’s jacket in a flea market, he bought it, took it home and then started taking it apart. He studied each piece because he “
Hermès: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
Designer Véronique Nichanian’s clothes for Hermès speak of design and luxury. The 181-year-old house is the wardrobe of men who’ve made it and have no time for faff. Their needs are simple: a designed series of clothing of excellent quality in
Dior Men: Spring/ Summer 2019
The designer Kim Jones has been releasing snapshots of his collaboration with the artist Brian Donnelly for the past few days on Instagram. Today the prolific social media fan enlisted his friends including Kim Kardashian A$AP Rocky and Skeptagram to pose with Donnelly’s
Thom Browne: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
The master tailor takes a trip to a surrealist garden with lawnmower-pushing elves wearing high-waist, grey wool shorts and braces with a matching jacket. Welcome to the magic garden of Thom Browne - a happy place where anything can happen and
Wooyoungmi: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
To the world of David Bowie for the South Korean cutting-expert and designer Wooyoungmi for her inspiration for spring ‘19. Argues the designer: there is a younger audience learning now of Bowie and his cultural influence, not born at the height
Sacai: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
Nike was on fire at Sacai just. The Japanese brand has got pally with the American sports giant to create an old-school-looking running shoe, quite Cortez - can I get back to you on the exact style - with a wedge
Junya Watanabe: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
Junya Watanabe's mind is a prism: shine things through and out they come, the other end, “Junya-fied”. They’re smashed up a bit, altered and original ideas are proposed in different way. He feeds off culture and history and music and
Maison Margiela: Artisanal Men’s Collection
The clue is in the white coats: the uniform worn by the petites mains, those behind-the-scenes workers of the Paris ateliers; the super-skilled secret weapons of the fashion designer. These mainly female seamstresses and pattern experts, transform sketches and thoughts,
Louis Vuitton: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
What do you want from a bag, seemed to ask the new creative director of Louis Vuitton menswear Virgil Abloh at his first collection in Paris, just. Somehow, this man has just elevated bags and created a whole new accessories
Rick Owens: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
A Rick Owens show is a chance to rewire not just recharge the creative brain. For spring, and through a series of billowing coloured smoke clouds, pumped into the air, walked a series of beautiful and architectural, also challenging, new shapes, which
Issey Miyake Men: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
Lightness and ease-of-wear, summer. Breezy afternoons on sun-drenched decks somewhere divine: Issey Miyake's man is the lucky recipient of a wardrobe of dead easy pieces for SS19. This morning’s show was a treatise on the shirt and a starting point for
Raf Simons: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
"What does Paris bring?" Asks Raf Simons, who, showed his Spring/ Summer 19 Collection in the French capital last night, after a three-season run in New York. The reason for his return? Not clear, but it seems that Paris is
Undercover: Menswear Spring/ Summer 2019
Any acolyte of Undercover who has visited the punk-fused, plugged-in Tokyo brand’s flagship store, will have noticed the rare and super-collectible album covers that line the staircase of the store. It’s a place of pilgrimage and worship for fanatics of