Tag: Casely-Hayford

Casely-Hayford presented its spring collection in its studio rather than on the runway, in order to highlight the collection's intricate craft work.

by NICK REMSEN “Volume transitioning” was the operative catchphrase at Casely-Hayford this evening, where creative director Joe Casely-Hayford, and son Charlie, designed a collection in celebration...

Casely-Hayford has created a signature style of relaxed masculine proportions and exquisite tailoring, imbued with an injection of the raw energy of London's dynamic culture.

Casely-Hayford Fall/Winter 2016 Menswear Collection in London.

The title of father-and-son team Joe and Charlie Casely-Hayford was nicely apposite for London menswear's themes as a whole: OF INDETERMINATE ORIGIN. That's not to say you couldn't have picked apart all the disparate threads of this, or any other of this week's shows: Nineties hip-hop, Sixties Mod discipline, rave-era Ibiza, Northern Soul, and all the other reference points that have clung round every collection. It's that all those things have become so melded together, so fused into something familiar yet strange, that the points of origin matter less and less. Instead, they're elements garbled in translation, warped and stretched into hybrids so far evolved that they've become almost entirely separate things.

Sometimes, the look of the fashion season doesn't emerge till the season actually arrives. All this week, all over menswear week, one particular garment...