Dior: Menswear SS23
Kim Jones brought a taste of the English countryside to Paris yesterday afternoon. Green fingered, like Monsieur Dior himself, this season Jones built his own mini oasis which blended the blooming landscapes of Granville, where Dior was born, and Charleston
Louis Vuitton: Menswear SS23
“Long love Virgil,” sang Kendrick Lamar whilst wearing a crown of thorns, as the Louis Vuitton atelier unveiled its first full menswear collection designed without Abloh’s input. The untimely death of any artistic director could leave even the biggest luxury players
Junya Watanabe: Menswear SS23
Yesterday, Junya Watanabe unveiled his SS23 menswear offering and it was an effortlessly cool collection created in the playful spirit of Pop Americana. With licensed graphics from iconic pop artists including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein and Keith Haring shape-shifting
Brunello Cucinelli: Menswear SS23
For SS23, Brunello Cucinelli gave modern minimalism a new name. With understated elegance, refined skill and fluid sophistication to the max, the heritage brand’s latest menswear collection was a leisurely assortment of everyday and formalwear; think preppy-meets-country club with an
Dries Van Noten: Menswear SS23
Dries Van Noten’s spring/summer 2023 menswear collection was a vibrant rush of ungendered energy with a dose of drama that took a deep dive into the catharsis of touch. Ruminating on the friction between our need for physical protection in
Bianca Saunders: Menswear SS23
For SS23, Bianca Saunders riffs on the duality of external appearances and internal realities. Derived from the paradox of traditional Jamaican cuisine, the London-based menswear maven plays with this antithesis in which starchy sides called Hard Food are tough prior
Charles Jeffrey Loverboy: Menswear SS23
Bidding adieu to the London Fashion Week for the first time yesterday, Charles Jeffrey joined the Milanese schedule and presented his SS23 Loverboy collection with a satirical fashion film. Unfolding like a cathartic music video, the picture featured just over
Zegna: Menswear SS23
The closing show of Milan Fashion Week Men’s this season took place close to two hours outside the city itself. For his first physical catwalk since the dawn of the pandemic, Zegna designer Alessandro Sartori brought the fashion pack to
JW Anderson: Menswear SS23
A self-portrait of Rembrandt from 1630 was the unlikely muse of a JW Anderson collection which questioned the idea of “how we’ve fallen into the computer”, as the designer put it post-show. “It’s probably one of the most important self-portraits
Giorgio Armani: Menswear SS23
There were two showings of the Giorgio Armani men’s show this season, the second erupting into a standing ovation as Mr Armani appeared on the catwalk to take his bow. The high priest of Milanese fashion remains one of the
Moschino: Menswear SS23
It’s nearing a decade since Jeremy Scott joined the house of Moschino, and for the first time since the start of his tenure, the beloved designer staged his first purely menswear show. Backstage, Scott spoke of nearly opting for a
Magliano: Menswear SS23
At once sensual, sexual and erotic, Magliano’s spring/summer 2023 colleciton is an off-kilter offering of austere, dystopian garms that invite us into a curious – perhaps imaginary – style-subculture of Mediterranean goths. Set in a fifty-years-abandoned voltaic Enel Energy cabin, the
JordanLuca: Menswear SS23
Dubbed Sabotage, JordanLuca’s SS23 show was annihilatory. Examining Sigmund Freud’s theory of the ‘death drive’ in the context of the 21st century, like a moth drawn to a flame, the London-based label acknowledged that every day millions of us are
Prada: Menswear SS23
There were no spottings of any superstar actors on the catwalk of yesterday’s Prada menswear show, with the likes of Jeff Goldblum, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rami Malek and Damson Idris instead taking a seat on the front row. Last season’s exaggerated
Versace: Menswear SS23
Last night, Versace debuted its archive inspired SS23 collection back in its Via Gesù home, and it was all about unexpected juxtapositions: fun and formal, bravado and sensitivity, Baroque and pop. A brand new generation of Versace men fronted the pack,