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LFWM: Backstage Bobby Abley Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. The ’90s reigned supreme on Bobby Abley‘s Spring/Summer 2018 runway. With a “Teletubbies” theme and various motifs of the decade played throughout, including a few familiar popstar faces, the designer took on London Fashion Week Men’s with popculturally adept, in-your-face pieces that have become his calling card. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. […]

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LFWM: Backstage Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. A unifying rallying cry, Vivienne Westwood‘s Spring/Summer 2018 collection took her four most pressing expressions—love, greed, war, environmentalism—and applied them to London Fashion Week Men’s. With a collection centered around devious playing cards, each statement can be witnessed using symbols, text, and color within the half-dressed, no-theme line. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. […]

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LFWM: Backstage Astrid Andersen Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. Astrid Andersen continued her quest for a world where tradition and athleisure can exist harmoniously at London Fashion Week Men’s. For Spring/Summer 2018, the designer chose fashion’s quintessential safari theme and reworked its familiarities for an urban twist, cropped silhouettes and figure-hugging pieces contrasting thicker draping. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang […]

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LFWM: Backstage Songzio Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. Songzio‘s Spring/Summer 2018 collection, Crossing Veils, realized an eternal search for emotion at London Fashion Week Men’s. Born from an initial oil paint design, the line featured a dreamy, watercolor vibrancy that paired with specially designed footwear—a total wardrobe inspired by the imaginative eye of Velasquez, the celebrated artist. Image: Thang LV. Image: […]

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LFWM: Backstage Alex Mullins Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. Unlikely source material—’90s perfume advertisements—made for an abstract, weightless Spring/Summer 2018 collection from Alex Mullins. With heavy draping and blindingly bright colors, London Fashion Week Men’s got a graphic-heavy, flower-power upgrade. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. […]

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LFWM: Backstage Christopher Raeburn Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. A quick trip to the desert prompted Christopher Raeburn‘s Spring/Summer 2018 runway at London Fashion Week Men’s. With his sustainable ethos printed alongside the breathable pieces, the looks are both adventurous and resourceful, using parachute textiles to craft the mesh-made line. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang […]

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LFWM: Backstage John Lawrence Sullivan Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. Bridging music’s past and present, John Lawrence Sullivan reworked post-punk/cold wave dissonance and techno accents for Spring/Summer 2018. With a London Fashion Week Men’s runway that rocked hard with boxy, ’80s outerwear and textured textiles, the designer aimed for universal power and strength. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. […]

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LFWM: Backstage E.Tautz Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. With a lingering focus on quietness, E.Tautz asked for a quick moment of calm at London Fashion Week Men’s with a Spring/Summer 2018 collection of asymmetrical serenity. With classic expressions—pleating and a rebirth of field jackets—the brand subverted a wild aesthetic to boil looks down to their British barebones. Image: Thang LV. Image: […]

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LFWM: Backstage Charles Jeffrey Loverboy Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. Charles Jeffrey Loverboy‘s first standalone runway for Spring/Summer 2018 brought a much needed debauchery, with a not-so-slight hedonistic touch, to London Fashion Week Men’s. Playfully vibrant, the collection was a sexualized peek into masculinity and the designer’s passion to live a life of erratic momentum, seen through its use of feminine flair and statement styling. Image: Thang […]

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LFWM: Backstage Berthold Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. A bracing portrayal of gender and strength, Berthold‘s Spring/Summer 2018 line took inspiration from African child soldiers to emulate the dramatic change from boyhood to man. With elongated proportions and heavy fabrics that hang off thin frames, the collection’s saving grace is its hopeful and aspirational blend of colors. Image: Thang LV. […]

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LFWM: Backstage Edward Crutchley Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Thang LV. Tapping into a vein of medieval revivalism, Edward Crutchley showed a bit of bourgeois brass for Spring/Summer 2018. Displaying a line drenched in shimmering silk at London Fashion Week Men’s, the designer pulled from Victorian femininity and Edo-era Japan to reinstate a much needed poetic nuance. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. Image: Thang LV. […]

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Gosha Rubchinskiy x Burberry for Spring/Summer 2018

Image: Burberry x Gosha Rubchinskiy. A reconstructed bucket hat, cut up trench coat, and an oversized Burberry check shirt are part of the latest collaboration between the British luxury brand and Russian designer and photographer Gosha Rubchinskiy. Receiving its debut in Saint Petersburg, the Spring/Summer 2018 collection features eight edgy pieces of reimagined Burberry classics. Image: […]