Paris Menswear SS15: Hermès

Livia Feltham
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Hermès rubbed Glass up in just the right direction late last week at the Silk Ball in London, so we are all feeling rather good about them at the moment. What has become most apparent is the brand’s elements of...
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Paris Menswear SS15: Saint Laurent

Livia Feltham
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Hedi Slimane was called upon this season to call menswear quits with his bohemian like you Saint Laurent presentation. As for the newest string of his strictly Slimane garments it was all unrelentingly Hedi, no...

Paris Menswear SS15: Lanvin

Livia Feltham
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There was an inordinate sense of pace at Lanvin on the final day of spring summer 2015’s menswear itinerary. All the same, if any brand has a firm hold on quick perspicacious elegance in our modern world it’s o...

Paris Menswear SS15: Louis Vuitton

Livia Feltham
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This season Vuitton was a flavoursome bouquet of chic, and what really worked in Kim Jones’ favour was the felicity of matured seasonings, none of which overpowered. The creative director actually drew on his s...

Paris Menswear SS15: Givenchy

Livia Feltham
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Tisci turned to the usual sporty tailoring this season, but if you just squint you might catch a glimpse of something a little different. A sense of divergence that is, for there was a faint sense of a SS15 Ric...

Paris Menswear SS15: Cerruti 1881

Livia Feltham
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Cerruti 1881 skipped nimbly along a thin line between the urbane and the urban yesterday in Paris. With a copacetic flow of trendy forms, patterns and strong colours, not altogether feminine but not classically...

Paris Menswear SS15: Dior

Livia Feltham
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Dior will always be Dior, touch wood. For now at least we are still witnessing all that bears witness to everything which should concur with the most delectable four letters in fashion. Kris Van Assche understa...

Paris Menswear SS15: Valentino

Livia Feltham
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In Paris this menswear season Valentino was a little bit of this and a little bit of that. This was free-spirited and that was evocative of calmer days gone by. Well, as it goes, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpao...

Paris Menswear SS15: Carven

Livia Feltham
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Menswear à la française  kick-started in Paris today, and it was all suitably Parisian. Carven’s lauded Guillaume Henry charmed with a lovably apathetic somewhat sterile spread of boyish clothing. The simplifie...

Milan Menswear SS15: Giorgio Armani

Livia Feltham
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Stand down, because Giorgio Armani reigns supreme over all back-door menswear hopefuls. One almost gets the feeling that the comments Armani, ever the opinionated creative, made not so long ago blasting designe...

Milan Menswear SS15: Roberto Cavalli

Livia Feltham
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You could almost smell the palm trees sizzling under the blistering Miami Boulevard sun, mixed with just a robust whiff of Drakkar Noir and, perhaps, gasoline, at Roberto Cavalli today in Milan, where the desig...
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Milan Menswear SS15: Gucci

Livia Feltham
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The model Gucci mod was back at it again in Milan this season. However, this mod was seabound and seriously stylish to boot. There have been many a reference to the seven seas in Milan recently, some hits, some...

Milan Menswear SS15: Prada

Livia Feltham
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At Prada this season, the exposed stitch ensembles signaled that there was to be no deception, it was Prada laid bare. As always. Of course Prada felt compelled to tick all of the unisex boxes for “universal” c...

Milan Menswear SS15: Calvin Klein

Livia Feltham
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As a brand Calvin Klein usually always has its finger on the modern woman’s pulse and its vital signs have always been healthy, but can the same be said for their menswear? I think so. This season, creative dir...
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Milan Menswear SS15: Vivienne Westwood

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In true Vivienne Westwood fashion, the SS15 show in Milan was explosion of punk nonconformity. She presented us with exaggerated suits, reminiscent of a mad hatter tea party with enlarged top hats, striking pat...

Milan Menswear SS15: Bottega Veneta

Livia Feltham
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It’s impossible to be distressed by luxury, but in Milan today Bottega Veneta went ahead and distressed luxury. This season scaled back typically showy haut monde menswear in favour of ragamuffin suavity. Shape...

LC:M Alexander McQueen SS15

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Sarah Burton OBE is slowly but surely taking McQueen down new routes with just the respect that should befit such a titled house. So a move to neo-McQueen sportswear was called for, and for all intents and purp...

LC:M SS15: James Long

Livia Feltham
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A primary-colour storm tore through James Long’s menswear this season, though a sporty splice of the tropics steadied the stormy semblance before a boisterous boxing motif ramped up the high-energy. It was boxi...