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Fashion East and NEWGEN Menswear Installations: London Fashion Week A/W Presentation Review

One of my favourite elements of London Fashion Week is sprinting around the Fashion East and NEWGEN menswear installations - so many incredible menswear designers in one place! Starring: Sibling, William Richard Green, Christopher Shannon, Kit Neale, Noki, T.Lipop, Sebastian Tarek and Christopher O'Brien…

Written by Matt Bramford


Sibling A/W 2012 by Gabriel Ayala

The Fashion East and NEWGEN installations were a riot of colour, innovation and design again this season. I always have the best intentions on menswear day to see everything - the schedule is quite thin in a morning and leads you into a false sense of security that you can casually amble around taking in every designer in your stride. Serenity soon turns to chaos about 1pm though - the installations open, they're rammed, and all of a sudden there are back-to-back catwalk shows dotted around town.

So in typical Matt stylee I raced around the installations in between shows, juggling my camera, a glass of plonk and a bunch of handouts in unison. Here's my whistle-stop tour of both the Fashion East and Newgen designers:

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Christopher O'Brien's name wasn't one I'd heard of before, but I… read more

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London Fashion Week S/S 2012 Menswear Day: Fashion East Installations

Here's our illustrated whistle stop tour of the Fashion East installations, featuring wondrous menswear labels Astrid Andersen, Matteo Molinari, William Richard Green, Agi & Sam and Cassette Playa…

Written by Matt Bramford

Astrid Andersen S/S 2012 by Antonia Parker
The Fashion East Menswear display always guarantee a treat at fashion week. The grandiose rooms around the courtyard at Somerset House are transformed into …

British Fashion Designers at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia A/W 2011: Marios Schwab

The headlining catwalk show of Sunday 3rd April at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia was from British Fashion East designer Marios Schwab, a very talented fellow and utterly charming to boot.

Written by Amelia Gregory

Marios Schwab A/W 2011 by Gareth A Hopkins.
Marios Schwab was definitely the most friendly of the three Fashion East designers who came to Moscow with us: never underestimate the power …

British Fashion Designers at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia A/W 2011: Louise Gray

Fashion East's Louise Gray showed at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia on Sunday 3rd April. With red metallic helium heart balloons and loads of clashing textiles. Yum.

Written by Amelia Gregory

Louise Gray A/W 2011 by Abi Heyneke.
For almost the entire trip to Russia I was convinced that Louise Gray was another girl in the Fashion East entourage… it was only …

British Fashion Designers at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia A/W 2011: James Long

Lulu Kennedy and Fashion East headed to Moscow to showcase three hot British designers: here's my review of James Long's A/W 2011 catwalk reprise on Sunday 3rd April.

Written by Amelia Gregory

James Long A/W 2011 by Sam Parr.
As part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia and in tandem with the British Council initiative that brought us over to Moscow three British fashion …

My adventures at Practicum: British Fashion, put together by the British Council in Moscow

I was invited to Moscow between 31st March - 4th April 2011 to take part in an initiative designed to network knowledge and experience between UK fashion creatives and designers from across Europe. It was most fun! And here's the pics to prove it.

Written by Amelia Gregory

The Moscow Practicum: British Fashion crew in Red Square. All photography by Amelia Gregory. (unless I am in the pic that is)
Just over a week ago I travelled to Moscow …

London Fashion Week A/W 2011 Illustrated Menswear Day Round-Up

Here's (what I think is) our FINAL London Fashion Week post. I bloody hope so, anyway. It's an illustrated romp through menswear day, featuring the Fashion East Menswear Installations and much, much more!

Written by Matt Bramford

Illustration by Charlotte Hoyle
So yes, London Fashion Week was yonks ago, and designers are already thinking about their S/S 2012 collections. Soz then, but this has been one hell of …

London Fashion Week S/S 2011 Catwalk Review: James Long

James Long presented a sophisticated Woodstock at London Fashion Week's Menswear day on September 22nd 2010. Illustrations by Gareth A Hopkins.

Written by Sally Mumby-Croft

Illustration by Gareth A Hopkins
For Spring Summer 2011 James Long, Royal College of Art graduate (fellow Alumni are Carolyn Massey and Erdem) changed track. The military references were …

London Fashion Week S/S 2011: Best of the Fashion East Menswear Installations

From Katie Eary to Christopher Raeburn, Morgan Allen Oliver to Matthew Millar - the menswear designers were out in force in the white sheds behind Somerset House on Menswear Day. Here's a little round up of my favourites…

Written by Matt Bramford

Illustration by Antonia Parker
Well, they’d really gone to town with this season’s menswear installations. Menswear Day is great, but it’s bloody hard work – you get five days to absorb …

Pre- London Fashion Week S/S 2011 On Schedule Womenswear, Part One: New Designers

In our first London Fashion Week 2010 preview, Amelia's Magazine's presents our favourite new designers to join the British Fashion Council schedule.

Written by Sally Mumby-Croft

London Fashion Week Illustration by teabelle
This September London Fashion Week enters the courtyard of Somerset House for its third season. Over the next week Amelia’s Magazine will be …

Graduate Fashion Week Extra: Royal College of Art MA 2010

It's been so hard to decide... But here is Amelia's Magazine review of the RCA's talented class of 2010. With illustrations by Lesley Barnes, Katey Harvey, Gemma Milly, Marnie Hollande, Naomi Law and Joseph Keirs

Written by Sally Mumby-Croft

Illustration by Gemma Milly of Zara Gorman’s Millinery.
Over the last few years the RCA’s MA Fashion course has quietly been producing a series of extremely talented designers; from …

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London Fashion Week Menswear A/W 2010: James Long

Photography by Matt Bramford and illustrations by Gemma Milly. What more could you want?

Written by Sally Mumby-Croft

Illustration by Gemma Milly
James Long is bringing the boiler suit back, and he’s bringing it completed with printed references to the work of Bruce La Bruce, an avante garde …

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London Fashion Week Menswear A/W 2010: Morgan Allen Oliver

Minimal Graphic prints ago. Photography by Matt Bramford and Illustrations by Katie Harnett.

Written by Sally Mumby-Croft

Illustration by Katie Harnett
The ever excellent Fashion East menswear installations were to be found in the East Wing of Somerset house on the last day of London Fashion Week. A …

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London Fashion Week AW 2010: Fashion East Menswear Installations

A round-up of the up-and-coming menswear designers as part of Fashion East's installation, at London Fashion Week, 24 February 2010

Written by Matt Bramford

If coping with sashaying around London Fashion Week’s Menswear Day from show to show wasn’t enough, there was also the incredible Fashion East Menswear installations, which never fail to impress.
It’s …

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We Are All In One: The return of the jumpsuit

Contributor Sally Mumby-Croft catches up with Nina Ribena, jumpsuit extraordinaire to find out how she became known as ‘the onesie girl’!

Written by Sally Mumby-Croft

 Image courtesy of All In One, photographed by Stephanie Sian Smith.
What attracts you to the idea of the onesie jumpsuit / all in one?
I just think they’re pretty unusual and …

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Goodone Clothing – Ethically desirable

Clothes to fit your ethically minded morals

Written by Becky Cope

Goodone clothing is a classic example of super-apt naming. Only ‘good conscience, good clothing’ would be a more fitting term. The clothing brand based in the fashion mecca of East …

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LFW 09 – Christopher Shannon – Scallies

MAN, September 23rd 2009, Somerset House

Written by Jonno Ovans

Lastly were some more home-grown designs from Christopher Shannon, who in keeping with previous collections sent out more “refined scallyism” (as he describes it) sportswear in a fresh, monochromatic colour …

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LFW 09 – Katie Eary S/S 2010:  Skeletons

MAN, Somerset House, Wednesday 23rd September 2009.

Written by Jonno Ovans

Most regular joes can barely get their heads round a manbag – well, they better get ready to accessorise to within an inch of their lives because that’s what the …