Stylee Fridays: MAN Show London Fashion Week
- story Chioma Nnadi
- photo Catwalking.com
The MAN show at London Fashion Week is always a chance for the boys to get flashy, and obviously the first place to go shopping for new British menswear talent. A newcomer to the MAN fold, designer Katie Eary literally turned the human body inside out for her spring 2010 collection, taking the idea of underwear as outerwear right down to the bone with skeletal leggings, ribcage splashed tees and pigskin-covered shades with trompe l’oeil eyeballs. Hardly surprising then that William S Burrough’s Naked Lunch and Junky were the designer’s go-to texts for the wonderful weirdness of it all.
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posted on Sep 25, 2009 in STYLEE FRIDAYS tags Christopher Shannon, Eastpak, JW Anderson, Katie Eary, London Fashion Week, Reebok, Topman
Stylee Fridays: JW Anderson and his Fantastic Flights of Fancy
- story Chioma Nnadi
Fashion and drama kind of go hand in hand at all times, which is why the biography of British designer JW Anderson is achingly poetic. Originally from Northern Ireland, Anderson moved to Washington DC to study drama at the Actor’s Studio but ended up falling for the costume department instead. After working as a stylist for Rufus Wainwright, he moved to London and enrolled in fashion school, establishing his label straight out of college.
