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All clothing by GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI

Shirt LOUIS VUITTON

Trousers CHRISTOPHER SHANNON

Jacket GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI

Choker and jacket by J.W.Anderson

Coat DIOR HOMME

Coat and trousers CRAIG GREEN

Trousers CHRISTOPHER SHANNON

All clothing LOUIS VUITTON

Coat and trousers CRAIG GREEN

Necklace, braclet and jumper worn around waist VIVIENNE WESTWOOD and trousers CHRISTOPHER SHANNON

Helmet STYLIST’S OWN

Photography: Elliot Morgan

Fashion: Kamran Rajput

Grooming: Alex Fairburn

Models: Guy at IMG and Lucien at NAMED

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Every year the best and the brightest of the art world come together for the Frieze art fair, where the world’s most exciting artists, from the emerging to iconic, are shown side by side. Supporting the creatives of the future, and demonstrating the skills of the already established, Frieze is the ultimate art lover’s dream fair. Featuring more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries and art from over 1000 of contemporary artists, Frieze has got your artistic backs covered. Hosting events, projects, exhibitions, talks and all manner of weird and wonderful things, Frieze is the ultimate destination for any art lover.

Moncler, a brand built on the philosophy of supporting the creatives of the future, have joined forces with the Royal College of Art to bring together cultural icons from art, fashion, sport and performance for a special project. With names like Virgil Abloh, J.W.Anderson, Roksanda Ilinic and Neil Barratt representing famous fashion talent, they will be exhibiting art (retailing at £60) where the artist’s identity is only revealed afterwards. It’s like pass-the-parcel, except you may end up with work by Phoebe Philo or Ashley Williams!

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Taken from the Summer Issue of Wonderland

Beige cotton polo shirt by J.W.ANDERSON, black denim jeans by LEVI’S from a selection at ROKIT and black leather belt MODEL’S OWN

Photography: Lasse Dearman

Fashion: Nicco Torelli

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The Traditionally Innovative

You Must Create celebrated it’s 20th anniversary with their AW16 collection at LC:M and it would be fair to say that in that time they’ve garnered a strong reputation for low-concept, high-style clothing that people simply want to wear: you don’t necessarily expect directional pyrotechnics at their shows. Having said that, their British Folk inspired, heritage-with-a-twist presentation was a strong one certainly not lacking in design flair and even recalling some of Japan’s new wave of workwear supremos like Daiki Suzuki of Engineered Garments or Hiroki Nakamura of Visvim.

Dusty Drifter

Full of greys and blacks, there was something of the Amish about the clothes and styling (those brimmed hats probably have something to do with it). Flannel ponchos and patchwork cardigans with baggy woolen pants looked and felt, you would imagine, broken-in and well patinated, as if worn on some dusty, Depression-era farmland – in the best way possible. Elsewhere, there were Boho musician vibes aplenty in the form of mop-top boys in leather jackets, wide necked knits, and degage skinny scarves.

The Wanderers

J.W. Anderson and Y.M.C. would appear to be diametrically opposed, but the work Anderson (among others) has done to help mix things up on  the catwalk does impact more traditional-leaning brands. As such, there were crop-haired women walking the runway at YMC in heavy knits and leather skirts: the wonderfully modern counterparts to these chic, vagabond men of yesteryear.

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The Fast Fashion Grind

J.W. Anderson is probably the most hyped insider designer in the world at the moment: he certainly didn’t need the press attention that came from the announcement that he would be streaming his AW16 LC:M show on Grindr. But you don’t ever get the sense that he’s doing it for the column inches, as such. Streaming on the hook-up app was, rather, the most underground way to reach the most people, fast. Because the speed of fashion is something he relishes – not just designing for his own line but also for Loewe – in all its weird, conceptual, and shocking strangeness. And strangeness was in no shortage during Sunday’s presentation, where everything from fur gilets to semi translucent, cartoon print tops turned up.

Something Senseless 

Saying backstage that “things don’t need to make sense”, Anderson was pretty happy to put his signature selection of the decidedly unconventional next to the gender-bending pieces for which he’s become known. This meant opening the show with a white peacoat featuring a large printed snail (a recurring collection motif, bizarrely), cream ribbed trousers with corset laced leg openings and a pair of branded, boxing-boot style shoes. Oh, and a thick, clear choker decorated with mirror ball circles. Next came a whole lot of tailored topcoats in metallic, silvery fabrics and blousons in shimmering blacks (there’s that snail again) all paired with matching trousers.

Life In Flux

Other J Dubz signatures appeared in the form of extra wide studded collars on a camel coat with Western detailing or tight-fitting sleeveless tops with baggy trousers. Perversely appealing were long-john looking knitted two pieces (like a snug jumper for the whole body) or a bin-bag black coat made up of exaggerated down panels. Forget just gender fluidity, this was a world in which everything, narrative, coherence and convention, were in flux: how else do you explain B-Movie ray gun prints and polka dot fur coats robbed of their arms cohabiting in the same collection? Anderson is certainly a brave designer, designing mostly for the brave.

Words: Benji Walters

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In keeping with their PR makeover, Grindr are upping their fashion status by showing J.W. Anderson’s AW16 show live this weekend at London Collections: Men. It’s unlikely that the pairing between the gay hook-up app and the fashion week favourite will have much influence on the designer, but rather the reverse as Grindr are trying to clean up their brand. (A shame in a way, we think, to shake off their unapologetically promiscuous reputation.)

Reported by The New York Times, Anderson said he wanted to show the sexy side of fashion through the collaboration. We’re having all sorts of thoughts on what the collection could look like following this announcement.

Landis Smithers, head of collaboration and marketing at Grindr said that fashion “a very big topic of interest for a certain segment of our consumer,” while Anderson himself called the collab a “no-brainer”. Better sign up now.

Photographer: Sophie Mayanne

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