MR PORTER launched

MR PORTER is the mens high fashion destination launched by the NET-A-PORTER brand which is already one of the powerhouses of the womens fashion industry. Offering more than just a plethora of brands with several very interesting sections including a Style Directory and a Journal Blog this looks like it will become as much a force as its sister brand...

Lanvin x H&M Lookbook

Im sure alot of you have heard about the up and coming H&M collaboration with French fashion hoise Lanvin. It is without a doubt the biggest H&M collaboration to date and from this sneak peak at the collection it is going to live up to the hype, the tailoring is superb and the variation in pieces is huge from shoes to sunglasses, tuxedos to knitwear, the full collection is available to view at H&M from tomorrow with release instore and online on the 23rd...

Fashion House Influence

Thanks to Kanye Wests exploits into the game last year, we have seen more and more of the fashion houses entering the industry with designs to lure in the heads. Although the purests don't want to see this happen it was an inevitable step in the industry once we were prepared to queue for hours to pay £150 for a pair of Nikes.

There is a definate upside to this new trend. Now that we have all this money from the top design houses flooding into shoes we are starting to see the knock down effect into the designs at the affordable end of the market. The Mark Ronson collection with Gucci looks to have influenced Onitsuka Tiger this year:


And the louis vuitton Kanye collaboration has inspired countless features in recent designs, below the be-tassled Adidas Nizza and Hanon's Reebok VCMP Stomper


I'm sure we'll see plenty more influences from the high end market, and this is just the beggining and I say spread the wealth...

Oki-Ni Yushutsu Collection

Oki-Ni bring us the Yushutsu collection, bringing us the 'best' of up and coming and some already developed japanese fashion labels, the result a very nice selection of great tayloring and out of this world innovation from the home of ltd edition.