Kicking off on Monday 7th January, London’s first fully dedicated Men’s Fashion Week came to town. The ‘week’ technically only lasts three days, but it’s a massive step up from the previous day tagged onto the end of Women’s fashion week. This means that
Racking your brains about where you’ve heard about J.W. Anderson before? That’s because he collaborated with Topshop last year. His wacky designs aim to bridge the gender gap with dresses, pleats and the trademark knee-high boots – showing a lot of leg for a sex so hairy.
Winner of the 2012 Menswear Emerging Talent Award, Jonathan Saunders was always going to bring big things to the catwalk. Clashing colours, a broad range of textures and some very practical A/W layering, Saunders made a designer collection very wearable. He also jumped on the horizontal stripe bandwagon with the likes of Oliver Spencer, Hardy Amies and Shaun Samson (all names to look out for over the next few years).
Thought you knew oversized? Think again. Sibling do oversized and they do it well. Their flowery “please kill me” motif on super soft knitwear seems so incongruous, but it works. The designers Sid Bryan, Joe Bates and Cozette McCreery love juxtapositions like their intrusively bright red leopard print trousers against cute and cuddly baby blues and pinks.
Richard Nicoll’s spaceman theme seemed to transcend all earthly fashion boundaries. As an award winning womenswear designer we were on tenterhooks anticipating his first menswear collection. He delivered with metallic jumpsuits, structured bomber jackets and the hue of A/W13: “safety orange”. Plus, we all love a good beanie.
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