Planet Notion: What are you looking forward to most about LCM?
James Long: I think it’s always exciting to see what the new designers are doing at the Fashion East MAN show which is where I did my first show. Also I love to see …
This weekend begins the third season of ‘London Collections: Men‘ – the greatest showcase of menswear on the planet. In just two seasons (a year in real-person time), LCM has become the centre for creativity in menswear, and it’s all down to a fresh new wave of designers. …
This issue we’ve gone for two different covers that embody the many sides of our two loves: music & fashion. We were struck by the arrival of Aiden Grimshaw, and we feel he deserves a chance to stand up for himself as a new kind of reality graduate. On the …
John-Michael O’Sullivan meets LOU DALTON at her studio on the edge of Spitalfields, finding her perfectly at ease with her place in the location’s rich tailoring lineage.
Lou Dalton’s workspace is tucked into the middle of a nineteenth-century furrier’s workshop on Spelman Street, at the point where the neatly-stacked, dark-brick …
Lou Dalton’s little LCM blurb (that you can peruse right here) proclaims that her SS13 collection was inspired by obsession and collecting. Sounds like BS, right? Well actually, it’s more apparent than you’d think.
Dalton’s OCD levels of obsession were visible in the delicate panels of colour and differing …
As Charlie Porter, menswear journalist extraordinaire and deputy editor of Fantastic Man, put it – “2012 is a very important year for British Menswear”. After a period of rising interest in British Menswear design – new labels launching, old labels relaunching and an ever swelling number of attendees and events …
The Fairtrade Foundation have teamed up with a bunch of designers to form a mini label called The Fair Trade Collective. It has succeeded in getting charity out of the way in encouraging people to purchase its wares based on beauty rather than sympathy. The fact that it’s raising money …
With nomadic, Romany influences, Lou Dalton’s catwalk show opened LFW’s menswear day with soft, loose tailoring in khaki tones. Echoing the womenswear trend of contrast panelling, Dalton’s jackets featured vertical panels of similar shades, or patterns and plains, which dialled down the contrast somewhat, but looked relaxed, and huing loosely. Models strolled down …
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