Archive for June 2018

Hugo Costa’s SS19 collection questions beauty and perfectionism. To see something beautiful in what is imperfect and banal, so that beauty can be revealed! These are all topics IRK questioned at Hugo Costa’s show for Spring Summer 2019 during Paris Men’s Fashion Week. “Imperfections are special. They give you life, they tell stories throughout the…

Hed Mayner’s Spring / Summer 2019 collection was obscured the lines of fabric, proportion and androgynous styling, However, the collection was comical in it’s styling of the silhouette and the odd scale of Mayner’s pieces. The collection varied from very long shirts, some coats with exaggerated sleeves, some large pieces of fabric were draped over…

LGN, Spring/Summer 2019 by Louis-Gabriel Nouchi, presented a zen combination of his counterculture elegance with tailoring and sportswear: LGN’s Spring/Summer 2019 was inspired by a reflection of “beauty in a world of crisis.” This collection is functional and contemporary, while still being sensitive to anti-gender styling, a strong statement in the designer’s development. Nouchi’s LGN…

In the fashion future setting of Xander Zhou’s Spring 2019 collection shown at London Fashion Week Men’s technology and identity breaches still exist and identity appears to have a new definition linked to ‘Personal Appearance Signifiers- “I am more than 107 billion humans who have lived and died on plant Earth, so I treat myself…

The convergence of Donna Tartt’s 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘The Goldenfinch’ a first person account of a terrorist survivor Theo Decker’s lost soul in ‘Las Vegas, the edge of the desert and the edge of reality’ with American architect Robert Venturi’s ‘Learning from Las Vegas’ 1972. A seminal Post- Modernist requisite reading for many…