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Fashion Week

​The ​Mattiussi Method

With loose volumes and tactile damier intarsia, there were plenty of covetable items in the Ami ​collection.


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Memories Of Military Service

The collection merged sharp lines, 1940s tailoring and offbeat touches.


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Witty Sixties

The designer's latest collection was even more on-brand than usual, with a concise, graphic message and a strong 1960s undertone.


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Igniting Demand in Paris

From Kenzo and Ami to Balmain and Hermès, labels cooked up menswear recipes for fans and followers.


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Love and Life

Hard and soft, precious and plain, masculine and feminine: the juxtapositions were as simple as that — but this time commercial savviness defused the label's seductive peculiarity.


Financial Markets

Resetting China’s Luxury Compass

In spite of the country’s slowing economy, stock market turmoil and a climate of uncertainty, China’s luxury market still presents lucrative opportunities if you know which direction to look.


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Personal Freedom

Ackermann’s boys were Mohawk-ed rocker peacocks in long coats of gilded tweed.


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Walter Van Beirendonck’s Fury

WVB built puppets into his clothes conveying the idea of people playing with other’s lives


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A Working Man’s Soul

A new sartorial spirit in suits and coats was combined with the utility of workwear.


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A Man’s Identity Redefined in Paris

In the current climate of fluid identity politics, Tim Blanks examines images of masculinity offered on the Paris runways.


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Sartorial Form and Function

The notoriously incommunicative designer breaks his silence for shoes.


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Flower Power

Rei Kawakubo ponders a world gone mad.