Haute Couture Spring 2015: Alexis Mabille

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What makes Alexis Mabille such a respected couturier is the detail he puts into everything that is associated with his name. As equally attracted to the appearance of a model’s face as he is to her gown, Mabill...

Paris Menswear AW15: Lanvin

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Lanvin are perhaps better equipped to do this season’s ubiquitous approach to understated luxury than any other menswear offshoot brand out there. There is something about their brand identity that says dark br...

Paris Menswear AW15: Paul Smith

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It’s good to see a designer at the helm of his eponymous house still staking claim to the designs that it presents to its consumer, especially in the case of British formal menswear mainstay Paul Smith. Flaunti...

Paris Menswear AW15: Kenzo

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Offering up something that is so unmistakably Kenzo, Carol Lim and Humberto Leon have stuck to the style choices that have made the brand flourish under their direction. Toying with the same curiosity for utili...

Paris Menswear AW15: Junya Watanabe

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Putting on his latest menswear presentation at the Place Vendôme, Junya Watanabe made it clear early on that this season would be about style and out came the statement suits and not much else. Of course, the r...

Paris Menswear AW15: Comme Des Garçons

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At Comme Des Garçons Rei Kawakubo has a wonderful knack for doing avant-garde with just a little dash of vaguely droll distinction and in a way that doesn't come off too overblown. Uniquely constructed Bermuda ...

Paris Menswear AW15: Berluti

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It’s not so much that they are few and far between but that they aren’t always done to such a standard, so when a collection explodes onto the menswear show schedule that just exudes luxury craftsmanship every ...

Paris Menswear AW15: Cerruti 1881 Paris

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Masters of the sartorial sophistication, Cerruti 1881 Paris have staged a grand effort in fusing formalwear and sporty utility-wear to maximum effect. It was creative director Aldo Maria Camillo’s job to do so ...

Paris Menswear AW15: Louis Vuitton

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The overcast skies above Parc André Citroën in Paris early yesterday afternoon shrouded Kim Jones’ latest offering for the house of Vuitton in a sobering dank grey. When a melancholic deconstructed version of M...
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Paris Menswear AW15: Yohji Yamamoto

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Even the bruised, battered and scarred faces of Yamamoto’s brooding men didn’t deflect any attention away from the mastery of his oily black tailoring and for any designer, that is quite a feat. This season in ...

Paris Menswear AW15: Rick Owens

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Rick Owens set out to break some considerable boundaries this season because, and let’s be honest, that is his job isn’t it? Starting off with some respectably chic double breasted leather jacketed ensembles th...

Paris Menswear AW15: Valentino

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Valentino’s top creative dogs Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli’s stuck to the house codes this season for a menswear presentation staged in harmony with the design house’s affinity with pattern making...
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Milan Menswear AW15: Roberto Cavalli

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AW is a tricky season for menswear at Roberto Cavalli. On the one hand Cavalli is given carte blanche to go wild with gorgeous furs and skin-tight leather, so win-win there, but on the other, he must try to cur...

Milan Menswear AW15: Etro

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The earth staked it’s claim on Etro’s AW15 offering, with Kean Etro building up an ethnic-chic repertoire in the space of 56 looks. Rendering this theme in the most sumptuous cuts of velvet, suede and grain cor...

Milan Menswear AW15: Fendi

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Fendi have worked hard once again this season to completely obscure any glimmers of egotistical peacocking while maintain an aura of luxury at the same time. Keeping the fur wafer-thin and washed out in damp sh...

Dior launches at Dover Street Market

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Dior have now launched a new retail space at Mayfair’s Dover Street Market in a first appearance at the concept store. Designed especially in collaboration with DSM, the retail space will boast an edit of a...

Milan Menswear AW15: Dsquared2

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Twenty years of Dsquared2? It can’t be, but then again, time flies when you are having fun and that’s exactly what the Caten twins have been doing since they copyrighted their go hard or go home menswear label ...