The disassembling and reassembling technique became the trademark of Chitose Abe at Sacai. This season, she explored a new path of this execution leaving back the colorful patchworks of motifs to go monochrome, without losing an inch of her style. She opened with an unexpected girly dress in black and white made from a men’s tuxedo shirt on a black long skirt with a stitched bow tie hung around...

The Spring/Summer 2020 season is almost over. There is only one more day of runway shows left in Paris and we can already predict what you will be wearing next summer. And yet, one wonders if these trends will still matter to their targeted audience and customers. In our ultra-connected and digitalized world, where information and visual inspiration flow 24 hours a day, the very concept of...

In the season of nature, gardens, flowers, sustainability messages, and disconnecting from devices to enjoy real life, Dior Homme, designed by English artistic director Kim Jones, created a shaded pink desert world built in a huge tent near the Institut du Monde Arabe to present the collection conceived in collaboration with American artist Daniel Arsham. Along with the work of Japanese artist...

The third collection of Virgil Abloh at the helm of Louis Vuitton menswear was a walk in the routine stroll of the Place Dauphine, near the Pont Neuf and a few steps away from the Louis Vuitton headquarters. The square is a beautiful example of a quiet Parisian neighborhood and it was completely closed for the show. The everyday life mood was a replica of the Parisian original with the same...

While fashion week is first and foremost about clothes, we can't help but notice that designers are focusing more and more on creating fresh, eye-catching, sometimes quirky – and always Instagrammable – jewelry, hats, bags, and leather goods for men and women. Here are our favorite pieces from Paris’ Spring/Summer 2020 menswear season so far. LOUIS VUITTON'S UPGRADED MONOGRAM BAGSLouis Vuitton...

Off-White opened the second day of Paris Fashion Week with a controversial show. The subject of the debate wasn’t the clothes but the end of the presentation. Rewind. The set was a huge stage mounted inside the Carreau du Temple made of plywood: people were sitting all around a big flower bed with musk and white carnations. It began and, without any shiver, ended: utilitarian urban sportswear,...

The fashion week kicked off with a dense and intense calendar. Different points of view ushered the audience forward into an intriguing journey of the new men’s aesthetics and visions, or backwards through the various boring proposals we have seen and bought for several seasons. What makes this alternation illogical is an off-key feeling that makes these voices play more tone-deaf than...

The final day of the Milan menswear shows unfurled in a botanical dream. The beauty of the hidden and private parks and gardens that set the stage for the last day of top shows were simply among some of the best locations ever. Giorgio Armani Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photos by Alessandro Garofalo for NOWFASHION.Giorgio Armani moved away from his eponymous Teatro designed by...

Forging ties and collaborations between fashion houses and iconic, but unrelated, companies and names is still on the rise in this business. The continuous research of the next and the new, and the overproduction of umpteenth collections, pushes companies into forced and unexpected marriages. Etro Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo for NOWFASHION.Is it also...

Magliano, the brand founded in 2016 by rising star Luca Magliano, uses grit, irony, realism, and satire to captivate an audience and promote its name. And this Spring/Summer 2020 men’s collection was no exception.  Luca Magliano at his Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photo by Gio Staiano for NOWFASHION.Case in point: its muse is salt and pepper-haired model Toni Pandolfi whose...

Giorgio Armani ushered in the 2020 Summer Olympics by presenting the official EA7 Emporio Armani uniforms that will debut at the Tokyo games. Emporio Armani Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photo by Guillaume Roujas for NOWFASHION.The show closed as 20 Olympic and 9 Paralympic Team Italy athletes paraded down the runway wearing night blue tracksuits. The tracksuits were adorned with...

Since Alessandro Sartori rejoined Zegna, the brand has been on the hunt for Milan’s industrial architectural treasures as the backdrop for its fashion shows. Ermenegildo Zegna Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photo by Guillaume Roujas for NOWFASHION.Sartori – who returned to Zegna after his tenure at Berluti – chose the former Falk Iron and Steel mill in Sesto San Giovanni, just north...

In a lot of ways, Pitti Uomo has eclipsed Milan’s Men’s Fashion Week.  This is due, in large part, to the fair and its organizers’ ability to purvey a strong identity year after year, achieved through statement events (some projects that shine more than others, but nevermind) and a clear vision and point of view.  Milan, spearheaded by Camera Moda has dimmed, mired by a format that is no longer...

Then the rain came. After two days of soaring temperatures and sunshine, Monday morning in London began as it all too often does; with cloudy skies and bad-tempered traffic jams, torrents of rain and flailing umbrellas. And instead of the weekend’s sun-kissed, open-air venues, Samuel Ross dragged his audience into the depths of an old printing works-turned-nightclub complex.A-Cold-Wall*...

There was a time when the London menswear shows lent heavily on the heritage of Savile Row to propel them into the spotlight and give them credibility. This was also at about the same time we laughably didn’t think men were too interested in clothes or fashion. But times have changed and now it’s not the Savile Row names one sees on the schedule to reinforce relevance, but the designers and...