Tag: menswear

One of the most striking outfits in Matthew Miller's Spring presentation featured a smartly tailored blazer over a linen tunic that hung in shredded tatters.

Oliver Spencer Spring/Summer 2016 at London Collection Men.

The inspiration points behind Agape Mdumulla and Sam Cotton's menswear collections have always been divertingly off-piste – from Lego bricks to upholstery prints to Japanese modernism, and from retro football jerseys to scuba gear to African oil logos. This time around, the trigger was fear, harking back to childhood nightmares of baddies and ghosts. That expressed itself in hand-scrawled stripes and flapping bogeyman silhouettes, in murky shades of cocoa, slate, denim, and midnight blue. The workwear details which have been cropping up in collection after collection this week were here too, with sleek leather utility vests worn under drab macs.

Soulland is a Danish menswear brand with its design principles and aesthetics rooted in Scandinavian artisanship with a contemporary feel.

Stuart Vevers took the growing momentum behind the brand up a notch this season. The Lindley Hall transformed into a metaphorical playground as guests were invited to sit on the edges of skateboard ramps, pregnant with anticipation. Save for the grey London weather, it could well pass off as a day on Venice Beach.

What was interesting, then, about YMC's show was how their new season's vision followed that same language. Well into their third decade, YMC are part of the establishment here – but an establishment formed in the radical heat of the Nineties, which started many of London's ongoing conversations around the modern masculine wardrobe.