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BFC cancels London Fashion Week Men's, combines genders for LFW in February

The British Fashion Council (BFC) on Thursday said its men’s fashion week in January would be canceled, instead merging genders for a February, digital first, fashion week. The combined gender fashion week will be held from 19 to 23 February following the New York shows. Menswear designers are being actively encouraged to take part in the...

29 Oct 2020

Fashion

Paris online fashion week closes with digital bang, but could learn from Netflix

France’s Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode hosted the first menswear online fashion week which largely corresponded to its physical calendar, with most of its stable of brands opting for digital presentations or videos. From Dries van Noten to Rick Owens, Berluti to Loewe, online fashion week saw designers create collections despite...

15 Jul 2020

Fashion

Hermès sets the bar high for digital men's fashion week

Seven minutes of fashion film can be either gripping or tediously dim. As digital couture week confirmed, translating the craft of haute fashion to the medium of a short video is a whole other ballgame, one which does not necessarily do justice to a ballgown. Many houses failed to impress an audience used to seeing shows live, where garments on...

10 Jul 2020

Fashion

Paris men's fashion week: Raf Simons solar youth are earthbound

Misspent youth is the time when one is young, doing things that are not considered wise, or proper. Read: fun. Raf Simons’ obsession with youth and capturing its lost spirit has been a key narrative of his work, and his emotional show on the opening day of Paris Fashion Week was perhaps less a glimpse of misspent youth but rather its abduction....

16 Jan 2020

Fashion

Virgil Abloh brings out stars for Off White Paris fashion show

Style superstar Virgil Abloh produced one of the big moments at Paris men's fashion week Wednesday when he had Gigi Hadid walk through a field of white carnations at his Off White show. The black American creator -- one of the hottest talents in fashion right now, who also heads Louis Vuitton's menswear line -- brought a host of stars to his...

20 Jun 2019

Fashion

EFM combines sport and tailoring for NYFW: Men's

Tailoring is dead they say. Not so fast, EFM – Engineered for Motion – was there at New York Fashion Week: Men's to refute that statement. For their spring/summer 2018 collection took tailored looks and found ways to infuse athleisure influences. This task is actually easier than it sounds. To create the aesthetic, designer Donrad Duncan used...

18 Jul 2017

Fashion

Represent is wide awake for spring/summer 2018

Two words: wide awake. This was the theme for U.K. luxury streetwear brand Represent's spring/summer 2018 show. While the brand prides themselves on pushing the boundaries, this collection had a lot of subtlety, which left the audience wanting a bit more. SS18 Runway Show #NYFWM look 29/33. A post shared by Represent (@representclo) onJul 13,...

14 Jul 2017

Fashion

Katama dives into expansion during NYFW: Men's

Men's swimwear is no easy market. Especially when you are trying to compete against an entire slate of more established brand's offering men's swimwear, like Tommy Hilfiger and Diesel. Model Garrett Neff, who has proven to be quite the businessman, knows what he wants for the brand and is going after it. The entrepreneur presented his...

13 Jul 2017

Fashion

Death to Tennis gets peacock happy

Death to Tennis took to New York Fashion Week to present a collection that seemed simply utilitarian with a few brand specific motifs like logos on the back of bombers. However, never look at anything just on a surface level. This season, designers William Watson and Vincent Oshin drew inspiration from New York-based artist Keith Mackie's...

13 Jul 2017

Fashion

N. Hoolywood: outerwear for spring? Groundbreaking.

N. Hoolywood's designer Daisuke Obana needed a moment of redemption after his last show. His fall/winter collection, which was inspired by the homeless, was met with heavy criticism from the press. Suffice to say, for spring/summer 2018 he passed his redemption taste. While it was a spring summer collection, the biggest highlights happened to be...

13 Jul 2017

Fashion

Nick Graham takes us to Atlantis for NYFW: Men's

Nick Graham took us to Atlantis for his latest collection at NYFW: Men's. No, not literally. But, rather, his spring/summer 2018 collection was based on the idea of paradise and the myth of the lost, underwater city of Atlantis. To that end, plastic lobsters and crabs were pinned on to bright blue blazers as models strut the runway in unbuttoned...

12 Jul 2017

Fashion

New York Fashion Week: Men's plays on street wear and contemporary Americanism

New York Fashion Week: Men's has kicked off its fifth season, and day one commenced with New York Men's Day, where a slew of rising designers displayed their fashion talents to editors, buyers, bloggers and industry personnel. This year, many designers attempted to play up on the popularity of the streetwear phenomenon, and play up to motifs of...

11 Jul 2017