BEST OF LONDON MEN'S SPRING 2014


It’s been just over a year since the inception of London Collections: Man, but the full wealth of the city’s creative talent was on display during the recent Spring 2014 shows, as The Last Magazine fashion director Alastair McKimm’s top five looks demonstrate. The upstart fashion week scored a major coup this season with the return of Burberry Prorsum to the British capital. Designer Christopher Bailey, who took inspiration from Bennett plays and Hockney paintings, offered a light-hearted, cheerful collection that had an effortless charm as bright as its primary palette. Sarah Burton, on the other hand, pulled from a different, darker period of British history at Alexander McQueen, with an almost Victorian silhouette and fragile knits and laces. JW Anderson carried over the best ideas from his recent women’s Resort collection, crafting looks that had the structural integrity and innovative construction of modernist sculptures. London’s younger talents made a strong showing as well. Shaun Samson riffed on a Nineties SoCal surfer vibe, with baggy sweatshirts and stark black-and-white towels wrapped around the waist. Newcomer Craig Green offered a fantastically original vision for menswear moving forward, with intense shapes and mind-boggling acid prints, as if to prove that while London may have its past, it is always resolutely looking toward its future.

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