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Brexit’s Effect On UK Fashion
Brexit was not only a shock to most but also 90% of British designers who voted to remain (BFC Poll). The fashion industry directly contributed £28bn to the UK’s economy in 2015 employing over 880,000 jobs which like many industries is now in uncharted waters. But what will Brexit mean to the fashion economy? Will […]
Spring Summer 2017 Trends
The sales have started and the Oxford St Christmas lights have been turned on. If you are looking for presents for loved ones and want to buy items that are ahead of next season’s trends then hopefully this will give you a heads up. Looking back across the London, Paris, NY and Milan fashion shows there […]
New Technology That Change The Way We Shop
Fashion and technology have always gone hand in hand and designers continue to push the boundaries and provide talking points with their collections. From Burberry broadcasting their entire catwalk using smartphones to Diesel Black Gold developing bespoke smartwatch for their catwalk show at NYFW. This month saw a surge in development that combined the hunger […]
Can The Council Ban Elasticated Waistbands?
During 40s/50’s fashion was all about beautiful structure, tailoring, posture and waists but then 70/s/80’s brought on the elasticated waistband. Now more and more people are wearing ‘lounge wear.’ But should it be banned in order to help stop obesity? Council bosses at the Local Government Association think it should. Now I’ve blogged about plus […]
MNSWR TV
The first and only online TV show dedicated to men’s fashion. Featuring David Gandy, Tinie Tempah, Bryan Boy and Oliver Spencer and more. Presented & Produced by yours truly. Hope you enjoy! http://www.mnswr.tv/
Autumn Winter 2016/17 Trend Forecast
As ever, I recently visited the WGSN trend seminar at the UK’s largest fashion trade show Pure London to bring you the latest information on the predicted AW2016/17 trends ahead of fashion week. So here we go…. COLOURS Red will dominate next season. We have already seen burgundy being the favourite colour for men’s fashion […]
Menswear Autumn Winter 2016/17 Trends
With the news that Bowie died on the last day of London Collections Men, there was no surprise that Burberry paid tribute. I am sure we will see more of his influences on catwalks in later seasons but for now, below are the menswear trends we are likely to see for Autumn/Winter 2016. Overall, there was predominately […]
Dangerously Skinny Model Petition
In the news recently, 23 yr old model Rosie Nelson launched a Change.org petition calling for a new law to protect models from getting “dangerously skinny”. After 112,000 votes it has gone viral and MP’s are now debating whether new legislation is needed to protect models here in the UK. A number of countries like France & […]
Spring Summer 2016 Trends
Its taken me while to get round to writing this having spent most of my time looking after my new baby, but having witnessed a few shows at London Fashion Week, knowing the predicted trends from WGSN and looking through the collections in Milan, Paris & NY, here are the key trends I think we can […]
Will We See ‘Plus Size’ MALE models?
I wrote a blog a few months ago about the growing popularity of plus size female models and how they have started to now be used in major publications, shops and catwalk shows. I even wrote a TV programme treatment about it! But this is soon becoming old news as we already understand the importance […]
Alex Willis-Bray 