Milan Menswear SS15: Prada

Livia Feltham
News
At Prada this season, the exposed stitch ensembles signaled that there was to be no deception, it was Prada laid bare. As always. Of course Prada felt compelled to tick all of the unisex boxes for “universal” c...

Milan Menswear SS15: Calvin Klein

Livia Feltham
News
As a brand Calvin Klein usually always has its finger on the modern woman’s pulse and its vital signs have always been healthy, but can the same be said for their menswear? I think so. This season, creative dir...

Milan Menswear SS15: Bottega Veneta

Livia Feltham
News
It’s impossible to be distressed by luxury, but in Milan today Bottega Veneta went ahead and distressed luxury. This season scaled back typically showy haut monde menswear in favour of ragamuffin suavity. Shape...

Givenchy AW14 ad campaign

Livia Feltham
News
Are Jamie Bochert, Peter Brant and Kendall Jenner in your party posse? If the answer is no, then you need to get some Givenchy in your life. In AW14’s Givenchy Ad Campaign, photographed by Mert Alas and Marcu...

Milan Menswear SS15: Versace

Livia Feltham
News
Versace maketh the man, and what a mighty good man they make. Undeniably, the thaumaturgy behind their menswear offerings is due to the pleasure Donatella takes in sculpting Hercules incarnate. This season was ...

Milan Menswear SS15: Dolce & Gabbana

Livia Feltham
News
Blood and sand and all of the other best bits of the “Spanish influence in Sicily between 1576 and 1713” made Dolce & Gabbana’s SS15 menswear presentation. “Made” has a little bit too much restraint though,...

Pucci Goes Large

Livia Feltham
Avant Art, Culture, News
Pucci has made its mark on its hometown’s landmark Baptistery, and over this past week if you happen to have been anywhere near Florence’s Battistero di San Giovann, one of the city’s oldest intact buildings, y...

LC:M Gieves and Hawkes SS15

Livia Feltham
News
Gieves & Hawkes output is always watertight. There is something about being the most respected mainstay on Savile Row that takes you places, and after over 200 years of creating some of the finest bespoke g...

LC:M Xander Zhou SS15

Livia Feltham
News
Xander Zhou was loud – I think he wanted to prove a point. Hot, heavy and throbbing, Zhou’s SS15 demonstration, labelled Hyperdrive, was a rather luring foray into the male psyche. As utility-glam as can be, th...

Join in the Fendi fun at Harrods

Livia Feltham
Culture, News
Time flies when you’re having Fendi fun. So make your way to Harrods right away to see the bright lights and furry amusements at the Fendi Fun pop-up on the Ground Floor of the Knightsbridge store, in what is s...

LC:M Alexander McQueen SS15

Livia Feltham
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Sarah Burton OBE is slowly but surely taking McQueen down new routes with just the respect that should befit such a titled house. So a move to neo-McQueen sportswear was called for, and for all intents and purp...

LC:M SS15: James Long

Livia Feltham
News
A primary-colour storm tore through James Long’s menswear this season, though a sporty splice of the tropics steadied the stormy semblance before a boisterous boxing motif ramped up the high-energy. It was boxi...

LC:M Richard James SS15

Livia Feltham
News
Atten-hut, it's time for the desert rats to come out and play. Richard James of Savile Row took us to the faraway reaches of the Saharan desert today and stationed us with the desert rat troopers of the late Th...

LC:M Topman Design SS15

Livia Feltham
News
Cord flares, floppy barnets and skin tight daisy jacquard knitwear all brought out to a feet-tapping funky soundtrack must of meant only one thing at LC:M, let’s do the time warp again? Glass’ multiple musings ...

LC:M Kent and Curwen SS15

Livia Feltham
News
When leather is associated with the sportier end of the menswear spectrum it instantly makes very well for enticing formal-wear. At Kent and Curwen today it was leather-luxe aplenty, just take the driving glove...

LC:M Christopher Shannon SS15

Livia Feltham
News
Christopher Shannon has guts and gusto, obviously. They are just a couple of the qualities that only last week won him the title of the first winner of the new GQ/BFC Designer Menswear Fund, but there is other ...