Tag: mens apparel

“The world is under pressure; designers are under pressure due to the unfair competition coming from fast fashion. My response is creativity,” said Ennio Capasa backstage before the show.

Pitti Uomo guest designer Juun.J gave his spirited fall collection a futuristic spin, sending out a gang of daredevils clad in embossed, heavy leather, felted wool and lots of shearling rendered in his signature pumped-up volumes.

Has any musician affected menswear more than David Bowie? Of course not: The menswear business should have paid him royalties. At today’s Burberry show, the first of significance since the news broke this morning of Bowie’s passing, the house paid impromptu tribute to the most exuberantly original re-inventor of them all.

The literal incorporation of motifs you see on the streets into clothes made to be worn on them is a path well beaten, most recently by Anya Hindmarch and Jeremy Scott. Today Christopher Kane followed this road too, but went at it in entirely his own direction.

“We don’t want change,” said Dunhill’s creative director, John Ray, this evening. “When a brand stops doing what you know will fit, I think men . . . kind of get a bit annoyed.” Truer words, at least to the style-aware gent, were never spoken. And at Dunhill, the story is one of minute evolution as opposed to revolution—no changes here.

This collection was full of fine clothes which many men—this one included—would be delighted to alight upon in-store.