London Collections Men SS16: James Long

London’s menswear style-shaper James Long approached this season with the intention of putting together an uber-cool uniform for the art student with a penchant for the wilder side of life. Layering a cacophony...

London Collections Men SS16: Hardy Amies

Savile Row icon Hardy Amies staged a utilitarian spectacular at London Collections Men this season, introducing tailoring with a more innovative direction and relocating its catwalk show to the imposing St Panc...

LC:M AW15 – Tiger of Sweden

Amping it up for LC:M’s final few hours, Tiger of Sweden kept the energy going with a show of brute fashion force. Harking back to the days of industry gone awry (think Britain’s fuel crisis of the seventies) t...

LC:M AW15 – Alfred Dunhill

Taking heed from the long line of archetypal male luminaries that have been associated with Dunhill since the brand’s inception, new creative director on the block John Ray focused in on the man behind the gent...

LC:M AW15 – Sankuanz

An Asian youth sub-culture clash, a spectrum of StreetFighter neon brights and some Chinese rap music; what else could possibly make for the perfect wake up call? Opening the last day of LC:M, the brand pushed ...

LC:M AW15 – Gieves & Hawkes

Hosting their AW15 presentation at St James’ Christies, Gieves & Hawkes staked their claim on topping off LC:M day three with a touch of class with a capital C. Being Savile Row’s number one occupant  the t...
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LC:M AW15 – Alexander McQueen

Menswear and the military is an age old marriage of dressing with defiance and if anyone can handle the age old and carry it off with contemporary cool, it’s McQueen. Their menswear offering this season didn’t ...

LC:M AW15 – James Long

James Long staged an all-out glam offensive for AW15, rivalling his signature wear-and-tear utility with exaggerated functional details to keep us warm next winter. Threading each look together with a distresse...

LC:M AW15 – Christopher Shannon

Christopher Shannon is evidently still riding on the tsunami wave of the success that hit him early last year if AW15’s clear, rather candid, agenda is anything to go by. In one of the most thoroughly post-mode...

LC:M AW15 – Sibling

Sibling really socked it to us at menswear this season with a pretty in pink punk ch-ch-ch-ch-cherrybomb explosion. The Runaways hard-rock hit actually opened the show and just the like all-female rock groups d...

LC:M Gieves and Hawkes SS15

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

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...

LC:M Alexander McQueen SS15

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

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...