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.
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.
Hardy Amies presents its Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear Collection at London. With a variety of colorful costumes and sublime for next season, Hardy Amies handles every detail to perfection.
Christopher Shannon unveiled his Fall/Winter 2015 collection during London Collections: Men, featuring shining colors, sweatshirts as main revolutionary joggers and plastic bag on their heads.
Photographer: Gio Staiano.
At the Met Gala 2026, the best-dressed men ditched spring florals for bold, statement leather looks, redefining red carpet style with edgy sophistication.
A haunting and cinematic editorial by Christian Oita, The Exiled Prince follows Moroccan model and LGBTQ advocate Ossam Arad through a fictional yet deeply personal journey of exile, identity, and defiance in the Arab world.