Tag: Spring/Summer 2016

House of Holland Spring/Summer 2016 at London Collection Men.

The designer spread an abstract desert-map print over waxed cotton parkas and jackets, and gave knits some heft with waffle and honeycomb weaves for a lineup that remained true to Belstaff’s reputation for stylish apparel that also performs.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” came to mind as we witnessed Sarah Burton’s show at The Arches in Southwark today.

Christopher Raeburn Spring/Summer 2016 London

The bulk of the schedule's menswear shows are based around the Old Sorting Office in Holborn, a strange stretch of mid-town real estate that has little connection to the fashion industry; that all takes place much further east, in the lines of north-south streets that follow the city's ever-changing frontiers. But walking from Holborn to the Richard James show this morning was a walk back through menswear history – from Covent Garden in the Nineties to Sixties Soho, to pre-war Savile Row and on to Jermyn Street and the gentleman's clubs of Pall Mall. There, amidst statues of portly Victorian generals and smugly triumphant explorers, Richard James unveiled their latest collection in a long underground space overlooking St. James' Park.

“I was looking at people who are so natural in their clothing, they think they’re blending in, but they’re totally not. There’s a real freedom to it,” said James Long.