Whistles - Pre Spring Summer 2016 Ready To Wear When called upon to write about a fashion collection, it's easy to love a concept. The clothes might not be so great, but at least a high concept gives you something to reckon against, a set of ideas enticing to unpack and discuss. Whistles, the British high-street ...
Whit - Pre Spring Summer 2016 Ready To Wear Born and raised in Phoenix, Whitney graduated from The University of Texas with a theater degree. After gaining design experience at Kate Spade, and studying at FIT and Parsons at night, she took over as head women's designer at Steven Alan in 2007. She ...
Yigal Azrouel - Pre Spring Summer 2016 Ready To Wear Print and texture made up the main story in Yigal Azrouël's new collection. In general, he hewed to measured, familiar silhouettes this season and used graphic pattern and surface detail to give his clothes a sense of novelty and dynamism—a tactic that served him well, particularly ...
Zac Posen - Pre Spring Summer 2016 Ready To Wear Here's a little summary of everything Zac Posen has going on at the moment: a new deal to design Delta Airlines uniforms for 60,000 employees; a gig as Brooks Brothers creative director of womenswear (his first collection will make its debut in September); a long-standing role ...
Joshua Kane Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear Joshua Kane is London’s definitive neo-dandy tailor, credited with making classic British-made suits the objects of desire that they once were. Kane cut his teeth at some of Britain’s most respected menswear houses Paul Smith, Jaeger and Burberry Prorsum before launching his eponymous luxury label in January this year. Joshua Kane’s bespoke ...
Joshua Kane Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear Joshua Kane is London’s definitive neo-dandy tailor, credited with making classic British-made suits the objects of desire that they once were. Kane cut his teeth at some of Britain’s most respected menswear houses Paul Smith, Jaeger and Burberry Prorsum before launching his eponymous luxury label in January this year. Joshua Kane’s bespoke ...
JW Anderson Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear Jonathan Anderson's collections walk a confounding tightrope between naïveté and decadence. Much of his new menswear looked like clothes for a futuristic, spiritual retreat (Anderson himself said he wanted something "laid-back, Zen-like"), but the buckled patent shoes were purest dancehall honky-tonk. The fitted leather jackets were pretty flashy, too, especially when ...
Katie Eary Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear A My Little Pony look-alike—only with a huge, ahem, "appendage"—graced the shirts and shorts at Katie Eary's Spring presentation. We know what effect the vernal season can have on people's libido, and Eary seemed all clued in about it. "It's basically 1950s teenager," the designer said after the show, name-dropping Elvis ...
Kilgour Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear
KTZ Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear KTZ designer Marjan Pejoski recently caught Chris Burden's Metropolis II at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and while there he observed the audience examining Burden's intricate, mechanical, miniature city. Not only did the exhibition delight the watching children, Pejoski noted, but it also left septuagenarians beaming with glee. Which made ...
Lee Roach Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear Lee Roach is happily engaged in a process that is as much about the dissection and anatomy of clothing as it is about design. He gets a kick from slitting away the skin of his specimens to show the muscles beneath. Today Roach showed denim that had been painstakingly sanded to ...
Lou Dalton Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear The Style Council's cover of the house classic "Promised Land" during the finale of the Lou Dalton show perfectly captured what the designer called the "euphoria" of the Hacienda scene in Manchester around 1989 to 1992. She said she wanted to revisit that positive moment and make it her own, but ...
MAN Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear As of this season, MAN has been championing London's menswear for 10 years, and the list of alumni is a testament to just how influential the show has been (and will hopefully continue to be). J.W. Anderson, Craig Green, Christopher Shannon, Astrid Andersen, and, of course, Kim Jones are some of the ...
James Long Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear Even today, much of Brighton—a Georgian resort town an hour south of London—has resisted much of the gentrification that is so rapidly altering the capital. Back in the early '90s, when James Long just about recalls staggering to the stone beach wearing a bathrobe to recover from the night before, this ...
John Smedley Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear Iconic styles born from the understanding that something expertly crafted can last a lifetime, with our roots in the Derbyshire countryside since 1784 John Smedley continue to create the finest knitwear made in Britain today. Understated elegance and minimalist yet luxurious detailing are key for our brand.
Joseph Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear At Joseph, head designer Mark Thomas and creative director Louise Trotter were looking back to the brand's heyday in the 1990s—a decade that swapped the over-the-top styles of the '80s for something more simple. They looked at photographs by Corinne Day and David Sims and felt a connection to the pared-down, unfussy ...
Joseph Turvey Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear Joseph Turvey is a London based menswear designer who recently completed his Masters from London College of Fashion in Fashion Design Technology. Originally from Shropshire, he began his training with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Womenswear Fashion Design. His interest in exploring traditional pattern cutting techniques and transferring them to ...
Veronique Branquinho - Pre Spring Summer 2016 Ready To Wear The other day, the owner of one of the fashion industry's marquee showrooms was talking about a sales strategy that seems to be working for smaller brands. "They do one thing," she was saying, "and they do it incredibly well. Retailers know what to look for ...
Veronica Beard - Pre Spring Summer 2016 Ready To Wear For Resort, Veronica Beard designers Veronica Swanson Beard and Veronica Miele Beard found a clever way to tackle the season's transitional, buy-now-wear-now demands: They referenced both après-ski and aprè-sun. "It's like the perfect vacation," Swanson Beard said, pointing to photos of Aspen in the '70s next ...
TSE - Pre Spring Summer 2016 Ready To Wear Sometimes all it takes is a trip back home to get inspired. TSE's Tina Lutz found her vision for Resort '16 during a vacation in Germany, stumbling upon a book of Karl-Heinz Adler's art from the 1970s in a local flea market. At a preview in her ...
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