It seems only yesterday that I was trying to understand why
someone created items of clothing that were inspired by a Tellytubby, but that
was a whole year ago. And London Fashion
Week Men’s has already rolled round. It
is not really a week and is spread over three days in London. Alas I didn’t get to go to any of the events
but I have compiled a round-up of style coming for A/W 2018.
This is just the way the fashion world works we are all
hoping for the sun to appear and the temperatures to sore and we are already
talking about next winter. But this year
there has been some nice little surprises and a big move away from the formal
and street styles are now the big thing.
This may have been starting in 2017 but this has really pulled over into
2018 and seems to be what will dominate the year.
From the young new designers to the heritage brands they
were all keeping to muted colour scheme, except one but I will touch on this
further down. As I have said street style
is in, from sportswear to more of a casual vibe throughout even when in a
formal way. With Tinie Tempah's ‘What We
Wear’ collection on the cat walk this was showing off a capsule range but is
very sports and street style based, with casual suits, military tracksuits,
strong outwear. Touches of colour were
there but all very muted with few really stand out pieces. Like this jacket, I
wouldn’t combine with the trousers but is a really simple but solid design and
would go with jeans and trainers nicely.
On Day 1 there was a lot of hype for Oliver Spencer’s
catwalk show and even had a few familiar faces like the lovely Daisy Lowe here.
But the dark colours and amazing designs had a simple but elegant look to them
from double breasted suits to wide legged trousers. The same goes for the Belstaff presentation,
the colours blacks and browns and all are very in with the Belstaff brand and
really good winter staples in the range being shown.
The other stand out for me was Christopher Raeburn, even
some of it was a bit out there, some of the collection was really nice, but you
needed to pick from the bazaar. What
made it stand out was that it was made from recycled materials like de-commissioned
parachutes. Go and check it out on line at the LFWM
In all from what I have read and watched the A/W collections
are going be a good solid keeper in the Winter. And as always there was some very strange collections, I'll leave you with Tweetie Pie.
