Browsing Category Menswear 2016

Sibling Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear "Jocks are bastards" was more or less the substance of the J.D. Salinger quote from The Catcher in the Rye that prefaced the Sibling threesome's spring manifesto. But the show that followed was more pitcher than catcher, more wry than rye. If it was an ode to college football—complete with a handful ...

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 ...

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 ...