Acne Studios: Menswear AW24
Grubby, grimy and ready to spark you if necessary – these were the character traits embodied by Acne Studios for its Autumn Winter 2024 collection.
Alexander McQueen: Menswear SS24
Alexander McQueen’s SS24 menswear collection is a lesson in soft yet statement elegance.
Wooyoungmi: Menswear SS24
It’s a recurring theme for luxury fashion houses to have photographs of haenyeo pinned to their mood boards. The female South Korean divers, who work well into their eighties, fish for their families and their local communities with feminine garb
Marine Serre: Menswear SS24
Marine Serre’s SS24 show transitioned from a gentle, homegrown jamboree to a vacation, to an impromptu night out and into a red carpet ball before mutating through to an ecstatic afterparty, exploring electronic dance music through the ages.
Kenzo: Menswear SS24
Suspended between opposing sides of a city, strung over the River Seine on the Passerelle Debilly footbridge that links the Palais de Tokyo with the Eiffel Tower, Kenzo’s SS24 collection kicked into action; casual, colourful and considered. Entitled City Pop
Hermès: Menswear SS24
Trekking from one show to another in the sweltering Parisian heat can leave you longing for a Cornetto, a pint of Peroni, or more importantly, clothes that are built to withstand the blazing sun. So, when Hermès Véronique Nichanian proposed
Loewe: Menswear SS24
Jonathan Anderson has a deft hand in making the ordinary extraordinary. As surrealist as his most recent Loewe collections may be, his eye for the abstract remains rooted in clothes that dress us day in, day out. He described his
Comme Des Garçons Homme Plus: Menswear SS24
“In order to find a new world we have to go beyond reality,” said Rei Kawakubo of her latest Comme des Garçons Homme Plus collection, which from the audience often felt like we were witnessing a glitch in the vortex.
Dior: Menswear SS24
Set inside a gigantic, sci-fi silver box plonked in the centre of the Place de Fontenoy, a troupe of models, clad in Day-Glo hues, rose from the floor in unison. Scored by a warped rendition of Primal Scream’s “Higher Than
Dries Van Noten: Menswear SS24
Dries Van Noten took a considered look at craft and construction for his SS24 menswear collection. Delivering an education in discrete, disruptive elegance, the Belgian designer ditched the elaborate printmaking techniques he’d mastered last season in favour of sleek tailoring,
Junya Watanabe: Menswear SS24
Bringing his black-on-black line up back to Paris for the SS24 season, Junya Watanabe garnered an out-of-this-world masculinity that felt ultimately anti-fashion in a totally punk, rather hostile, way.
Rick Owens: Menswear SS24
Come rain or shine, a Rick Owens show always manages to muster up the image of otherwordly, gothic creatures emerging from the aftermath of the apocalypse. Paris’ miserable weather on Thursday afternoon only added to the theatrics, as Owens’ alien-like
Botter: Menswear SS24
For Botter’s SS24 menswear offering, we were off to the island of “Caribbean Couture”, gender-blending garb and misfit toys.
Wales Bonner: Menswear SS24
Grace Wales Bonner penned her SS24 collection as “an ode to long journeys and life missions”, letting her design hand be guided by the “unwavering spirit” of long-distance runners hailing from Ethiopia and Kenya – including Tamirat Tola and Yomif
Hed Mayner: Menswear SS24
In Hed Mayner’s arena, there’s no such thing as boring clothes. Affectionately termed as such by the designer himself, his SS24 collection revealed new design dimensions by reworking such basics – a man’s suit, a chino, a cotton poplin shirt,