At Xander Zhou’s Fall/Winter 2018 runway show during London Fashion Week Men’s, there was an immense sense of heritage and sentiment present throughout the line-up, where daring Asian sentiment was reconfigured for an almost caricature-like takedown of the traditional Western menswear show.
There were men donning conical hats, long sweeping robes, and several particularly large folding fans. But, it’s not until after you get past the abundance of tangzhuang jackets, traditional changshan shirts and the recurring leopard and dragon motifs, that you discover what’s truly majestic about this collection. That’s because, from out of Asian past and nostalgia, Xander Zhou was able to deconstruct both Eastern and Western influences and merge them into a modern – and somewhat sci-fi – range of tailored suiting and workwear. However, if you’re not a fan of calligraphy prints or incessantly bright colours, you might want to move on to the next show; but, when it comes to sticking to a concept that some might find bold and eccentric, Xander Zhou certainly didn’t hold back this season – kudos for that. And altogether, somehow it just worked.
Diesel took some of the hate received as a brand, like “Diesel is Dead” and “Diesel is not cool anymore” showing them with pride and turning them into unique items.
Marcus Huang graduated from Shih-Chien University this summer. His collection titled “Self-Destruct Mechanism” exist for one sole purpose: to warn people.
Bernhard Willhelm has clear ideas and a lot to tell. He is a natural provocateur, a conscious dissident. His fashion is a courageous, unbridled warning to the rampant respectability, conformism, and the fake anti-conformism.
It’s midnight on a Friday night in 1999… Basement Jaxx is blasting through the speakers of your bedroom stereo and your pre-gaming on Vodka/7ups with your girls!
Josef Lazo and Andreas Schmidl dream, experiment, have fun. Their Lazoschmidl is an outrageous love declaration to the contemporary man, to the real big-boy.
The iconic Jumpman within the Paris Saint-Germain circle shows just how huge of a market this is for Jordan and that his Royal Airness goes beyond basketball to being an overall icon in sport and style.
For the lookbook, the brand collaborates with the photographer Charlotte Krieger. Her unconventional painting technique and pastel colors contrast with the vertical lines and brightness of the collection.
