Blog — menswear

The impulse for menswear designers to imbue dreamwork into classical codes has taken on the momentum of a bullet train. We see houses employing silent gestures that speak to our inner language. Suiting has returned to bespoke standards of making while engaging fabrics that feel like a second skin with the fit of modernity. Poetic lines are being hand painted on leather jackets and shirts are dispelling notes on revolution. Lauded abstract expressionist, Gerhard Richter, painted his large-scale masterpieces in a structured uniform of suit and coat. His conceptual longings and explanations of the century executed in the strictest of dress codes. Weighty artistic masters, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, consumed tireless days playing chess in their buttoned-up threads. Modern men paint shirtless, get...

Born among the lush green hills of Derry, Ireland, Smyth & Gibson adheres to the regimented standards of the old guard that have been passed down hand to hand. Richard Gibson and his wife Selena have devotedly continued this long tradition of Irish shirtmaking with a modern viewpoint. Their shirts are cut by hand and then stitched with single French needle seaming which allows them to match stripes and checks at the sleeve head, collar points, gauntlet, placket and yoke. Beautiful natural fabrics and British manufacturing land their shirts with a well-earned status of old world quality in a modern form. Words by Brit Parks

Spring 2015's buy brought Jill to the Liberty Men's trade show in New York and there was a particularly draw to the inspiration and intention brought to Freedom Hall, a section of hand-picked apparel designers brought to the trade show by taste-maker and founder of The Brooklyn Circus, BKc, Ouigi Theodore

It's all in the details.

True stories. Intentional construction. Attention to detail. A shout-out to history. Is it any wonder that Nigel Cabourn is considered brilliant as a cult British designer?