With Mens Fashion Week around the corner we are bringing the Fashion to you. Want to be in the know? heres how with our Mens Fashion designer Top pics one’s to watch.
BOBBY ABLEY
Bobby Abley is known for his unique charm, wit and humour, blending nostalgic and playful imagery with a contemporary menswear design. Launching his namesake label in 2012 and receiving a place on the prestigious MAN catwalk for the inaugural London Collections: Men, Bobby Abley is one of the breakthrough menswear names of recent years. now part of the NEWGEN platform from the London design studio, Bobby Abley has taken the international markets by storm and is available exclusively through the worlds leading retailers. Firmly established and instantly recognisable the unstoppable momentum of the Bobby Abley brand continues.
MATTHEW MILLER
Matthew Miller has a design philosophy that positions fashion as a product, just like ceramics or furniture, balancing simple manufacturing values with an artist’s approach to his craft.
The visual language of art and gallery spaces is referenced throughout Miller’s work with labels reading Untitled, Mixed Media, Dimensions Variable that feature both Ms underscored, choosing to subtly call out his initials on a garment rather than plaster his name all over it.
As a comment on how freedom of speech could be the last authentic art form, Untitled, Mixed Media, Dimensions Variable also transforms each item and its owner into a walking piece of Socialist Youth art that becomes more relevant with every mark it picks up, adding user-generated value as it ages.
Miller sees the wearer as integral to a garment’s worth, raising its importance as soon as it’s worn because of the cultural capital accrued depending on what he or she does in it – or to it – and so developing the inherent character of each piece.
“I never saw beauty as being something that was a physical object. I fundamentally see beauty as being a moment in time, a fleeting feeling, a scar, a memory, an experience, a sense of freedom.” – Matthew Miller
LIAM HODGES
Originally a Kent boy, as brand, Liam Hodges is interested in an expressive, polysillabic masculinity, it’s about creating a luxury brand that doesn’t just cater the high borns. It’s for people who live for the week, not the weekend, by which mean : man who don’t drive volvos.
Signature Liam Hodges demonstrates big, garish shapes and hard wearing, workwear detailing, communicated through a strong graphic language presented on signature oversized t-shirts and knitwear.
Liam Hodges’ influences vary from aspects of hip hop, punk, guerrila militia and balls out folk.
Liam Hodges presents character driven collection that examine masculinity in a contemporary way and result in real clothes that mean want to wear, or as Hodges puts it : ” Ultimately, I’m taking something quite normal and making it beautiful”.
Hodges presented his debut his debut ss14 collection for the Fashion East installations after legendary Lulu Kennedy eyeballed him. Before gaining catwalk sponsorhship under the prestigious Topman backed MAN banner and most recently recieving catwalk support from NEWGEN men.
Liam Hodges has won the support of titles including ; Another Man; Dazed & Confused, I-D, Interview VMAN, GQ Style, Dansk, Vogue Japan, WGSN, Wonderland, Rollacoaster, Vogue Italy, Hypebeast, Complex, Showstudio, 7th Man, STYLE.com, November, TANK, The Guardian, Sang Bleu, Fucking Young! to name a few and his designs have been worn by Drake, P.Diddy, FKA Twigs, Danny Brown and Big Sean.
SONGZIO
Founded in 1993, SONGZIO is a contemporary menswear brand. Based in Seoul and Paris, the brand has gained fame with its delicate emblematic new look: the black suit. In 2003, with close ties with the Korean entertainment industry, the brand launched its first diffusion line in Seoul, ZIO SONGZIO leading to immediate commercial success and the launch of the brand’s third diffusion line, ZIO SONGZIO on air.
SONGZIO’s international expansion began in 2006 at Paris Men’s Fashion Week, with a revamped collection line. Clothing the ideas of arts, pictures and nature on to the canvas, SONGZIO’s design takes a unique form. Using delicately tested oils and colours, he blurs and cuts through the veils of his abstract work. Behind the veils, lie the emblematic vertical strokes of the brand. Through this artful texture, color and contrast, each collection emanates the intensity, passion and strength of the house. Where art meets craft, strength meets delicacy and elegance meets modernity, each collection is made. Since its Paris Fashion week debut, the brand has been invited to show in Singapore and Barcelona Fashion Week.
Based in Paris, SONGZIO is also sold by around 30 retailers and department stores globally. From Seoul, the diffusion line ZIO SONGZIO is sold both online and offline through more than 50 independent stores.
1987: Graduated from ESMOD Paris
1993: Womenswear ZIO & ZIA launch
1999: SONGZIO launch
2003: ZIO SONGZIO & ZIOSONGZIO on Air launch
2009: Arena A award: Man of the year
2013-Present: Governor of Asian Couture Federation
2014: ACF award: Oustanding menswear designer
1994-Present: Seoul Fashion Week
2006-2016: Paris Men’s Fashion Week
2016-Present: London Fashion Week Men’s
London Fashion Week Men’s – Dates
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London Fashion Week Men’s June 2017 9th – 12th June 2017
