Spring 2022 Menswear

Bianca Saunders is raring to go and radiating positivity. No wonder. Her skilled and nuanced angle on modern masculinity has been bringing her a deluge of international awards and recognition over the past year. She took home the 2021 Andam…

“Simple, but sophisticated.” That’s the APC source code and it’s how Jean and Judith Touitou described their new spring collection. Eighteen months of Covid had designers whiffling and waffling every which way, but you aren’t going to hear…

I’m told that as you age, gravity does its job and things once pert begin to melt downward towards the ground. Luckily, this has not happened to the derrière of Duckie Brown’s Steven Cox—his bum, pert as ever, makes an encore appearance in…

R13’s Chris Leba doesn’t really care much for this review. When I first joined a Zoom call to discuss spring 2022, Leba wasn’t there, sending the stylist Sophia Álvarez (who did not style this lookbook but acted as a sort of…

Two years ago, after cornering the millennial/Gen-Z market with too-cool-for-school shoes, Eytys launched its first denim-led ready-to-wear collection. The brand’s clubby, youthful vibe carried over to clothes which were designed, explains…

Dean and Dan Caten are great showmen, but as much as they love putting on extravagant events, this season they skipped Milan’s spring catwalks in favor of a video presentation. It was actually staged as a proper fashion show and filmed in…

Bally CEO Nicolas Girotto recently opened new stores in New York’s Meatpacking District and on London’s Bond Street (which are operating), and another on Sydney’s George Street (which cannot). This is part, he said, of a bet the house is…

There has been so much rhetoric about resets in fashion recently that it sometimes feels like we’re stuck in some piece of obsolescence-threatened, endlessly glitching hardware, with designers, retailers, and editors alike repeatedly…

In her show notes this season, Margaret Howell described her process as one of “review and renewal.” You might not initially think of Howell’s steady, near-seasonless approach to design as one of constant renewal, but on closer inspection,…

Connecting the divided and disparate in order to fashion a diverse but unified whole: that’s what makes quilting seem so specifically appropriate to the United States—even if its longer history can be traced back to ancient Egypt and most…