Haute Couture

Astrid Andersen elevates sports-sourced streetwear—the daily uniform of so much of the world—through the application of lushly luxurious fabrications and decorative detail.

“The concept is without,” said Darren Barrowcliff, Hardy Amies’s head of design, while surveying his 14-look collection on a phalanx of models arranged at The Arts Club of Mayfair, London.

Tiger of Sweden showing its Fall/Winter 2016 at London Collections: Men.

Agi & Sam at London Collections Menswear showing its Fall/Winter 2016.

Ask Craig Green—British fashion’s favorite conceptualist—how he feels about being labeled thus, and he wrinkles his nose a bit and grins incredulously. “We never start with a concept,” he shrugs. “It’s just things that feel right.”

To raise Nasir Mazhar’s hackles, just say, “streetwear.” He palpably snarls at a word he feels comes laden with an implicit marginalization.