London Collections: Men SS17

London says goodbye to Collections: Men.

Not because as many claim the men’s shows are disappearing following the increasingly blurred boundaries between masculine and feminine, but because the next edition will be named London Fashion Week Men’s.

The latest shows reflect the period of transition hanging in the balance between gender fluid, creativity and experimentation, nostalgia and tradition, sporty silhouettes and ethnic features.

Agi & Sam look back at their childhood in the countryside, Topman's designer remembers the summers spent on the English coasts and the Sibling's duo dreams of Miami's beaches.

Nasir Mazhar mixes army and sportswear influences, Astrid Andersen urban and Athleisure. If Craig Green, Ximon Lee and Christopher Shannon play with volumes, cuts and overlaps, J.W. Anderson tells us the Little Prince.

London reflects its thousand faces and shades, its multiculturalism and the many different influences revealed these days.

Here are some of the most interesting ones.

 

Art & Design

Matthew Miller - John Constable "Cloud Studies"

Ximon Lee - Franz Kline

Casely-Hayford  - Faris Badwan's painting

Craig Green - Laszlo Moholy Nagy's painting

Oliver Spencer - "Le Mepris" illustration by Federico Babina

 

A homage to

Lou Dalton - Yorkshire bracken

Christopher Shannon - Judy Blame '80s

Agi & Sam - Derek Edward "Del Boy" Trotter from "Only Fools and Horses"

Grace Wales Bonner - Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie

J.W.  Anderson - "The little prince"

Bobby Abley - Genie from Disney's "Aladdin"

Topman - Margate poster by Andy Tuohy

Topman - vintage ice-cream tin sign