Alexander McQueen opens in Beijing

Hot on the heels of Burberry and in a bold move to strengthen their presence in the Chinese market, Brit label Alexander McQueen has partnered with premium designer store, JOYCE, for the opening of its first boutique in China at Sanlitun North Village, Beijing’s premier luxury retail development.  Spread over 2 floors, the space houses ready-to-wear men’s and women’s wear as well as accessories

Alexander McQueen S/S '12 Menswear review

It’s not unusual for a designer to experience teething problems when called in to head up an existing fashion house.  Lee McQueen, famously, locked horns with the archaic atelier at Givenchy, and his successor at the late designer’s eponymous label, Sarah Burton, has spent the last couple of seasons ransacking the Alexander McQueen back-catalogue whilst simultaneously sucking the life out of it

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: SAVAGE BEAUTY & THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART GALA

The fashion cognoscenti’s breath was bated the moment it was announced, and a maelstrom of reports and rumours regarding who would be wearing whom hit the Internet like a blitzkrieg during the weeks leading up.You would be forgiven for thinking that we’re talking about the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton – but Monday night’s New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) Gala, and

Dries van Noten Menwear ticks all the right boxes for A/W '11.

It’s hard to believe that it is 23 years since Dries Van Noten burst onto the scene as one of the Antwerp Six in 1988.  What is even more astounding is that his work remains as authoritative as ever.  The Autumn/Winter collection Van Noten showed during Paris Menswear Week is a nigh-on faultless summing up of that season’s key trends.


Luxe Sport is here, in the technical fabrics and fitted,

Vuitton sees Red - Menswear A/W'11/12

The lady in red is an iconic image that has inspired artists and, unfortunately, Chris de Burgh, for generations.
Now we have the man in red – at Dolce and Gabbana, at Dior Homme, at Viktor and Rolf and, now, at Louis Vuitton.  His red frockcoat/Puffa hybrid brightening up an otherwise moody, sombre selection of monochromatic suits and outerwear inspired in part by the austere dress of the

McQueen menswear. Collection by Commitee?

Military looks are my personal bugbear.  Season after season, military details will appear in menswear when the designer has run out of fresh ideas, a lazy, default setting.
However, designers know that the easiest way to a man’s heart isn’t through his stomach, but by appealing to his inner Sharpe, or Horatio Hornblower.
We all love a man in uniform.
And so to Sarah Burton’s retro-futuristic