Street Inspiration From Milan

Tommy Ton from Jak & Jil shows his skills at capturing the most stylish gents at Milan Fashion Week.

Giving me plenty of ideas of what I hope I'll look like when I'm older. This guy is the bomb in my eyes.

Briefcase as a makeshift backpack, note the super mustard trousers too.

Brilliant without that tattoo, even better with.

Oh, would you look who is it! It's Steve from Style Salvage rocking the double gingham and his prized shoes.

Denim shirt worn smart with a db wool blazer. Key point, glasses backwards in the pocket.

This chap reminds me of Jeff Goldbloom in Jurassic Park, we're all up for a bit a "nu-safari" right?

It's not only the girls that are nailing the combat pants at the mo. Also, freaking love the suede driving shoes, a pair is high on my wish list.


So much inspiration for us chaps. Be interesting to hear from both girls and boys about your thoughts on the pictures though, nice to hear both sides.


You can see more from his snaps at Milan here

COS Spring/Summer 2010

This is where my spare pennies will be spent while I'm in London for the next few months.

Image from here

www.cosstores.com

UNIQLO +J Spring/Summer 2010

The +J S/S 2010 collection at Uniqlo is released on Thursday 7th January. I was really disappointment with the previous collection, it seemed like there wasn't as much thought put into it as there should have been. I much preferred the regular Uniqlo stuff but this seasons offering looks a bit more interesting in terms of fabrics and details. But the jury is still out, we shall see.

A Chilling Spring / Summer 10

We're not even into our proper Autumn yet here, it's getting colder but not really enough to pull the scarf and gloves out(though I have bought several new items in preparation). Not that I want it to hurry up to get warmer but it's nice to look ahead and see what trends will be trickling down to the high street. Looking through a few collections it's plain to see that coppers, metallics, icy sheers, silvers/golds and iridescent are dominating. Fashion156 have done a round up of all the emerging trend here.

Strong collections featuring these qualities are James Long, Katie Eary, Mark Jacobs, Fendi and Hugo by Hugo Boss:

Hugo by Hugo Boss s/s 2010 offerings. The icy blues with white is one of my favourite looks of the season.

Perfectly fitting tailored trousers, striped blazers and long vests are paired with some wicked looking sandals.

Icy whites and deep navys are matched with unexpected gold coin embellished sections and trims (lets call the exaggerated trimmings).

How brilliant are the gold sections, I just know if I tried something like this at home it would turn out terrible, and I guess that's why I'm not a machinist! I can see the theme coming through in some of the high street shops but not so much the shiny golds for me, well maybe some questionable attempts in Zara.

Images from Vogue.uk

Paul Smith Spring 2010 Collection

Paul Smith's latest collections is based on Congolese dandies called the Sapeurs. Paul Smith is set to release a book is about these guys called "Gentlemen of Bacongo". The books about these immaculately dressed gents who live in the run down streets of Congo. They remind me of the SPIVS, who romed the streets of London in the early 1940s selling anything you wanted at knock of prices. Best describes as the first wheeler-dealers.

As you can see the first outfit has been recreated from the image of the front of the new book;

Filled with clashing colours, stripes, animal prints and some abstract this was a mixture of everything and more. The collection also features so creative styling ideas with cardigans been slung off the shoulders and belted, tops were wrapped, bandage-like around the top of arms and mish-mash patterned were teamed with gentlemanly brogues. This collection has really impressed me and is a bit of an eye opening.

There's lots more going on at New York/London Fashion Week right now, some other of my favourites have been Marios Schwab, Todd Lynn, Marc Jacobs and 3.1 Philip Lim. More reviews to come soon.

The book is now going on my wishlist.

Mjolk Spring/Sumer 2010 Collection

From the Mjolk s/s 2010 Lookbook. I'm always a fan of Mjolk's collections, as the consistently deliver fashion forward pieces in great fabrics, cuts and colours. It seems that everything really is getting more relaxed now and getting away from the super skinny jeans, we have been seeing less and less skinny jeans on the catwalk over the past year or so. For me this collection looks fresh with a classic Scandinavian cool to it, quite reminiscent of Acne. My personal favourite look out of these is the outfit with the loose off white top and grey marl pants.

Images via Modefeber

Check out past Mjolk collections here

Yves Saint Lauren Spring 2010

This collection really caught my eye when I was looking through the catwalk shows from Spring collections this week. I love the playfulness of the proportions and shapes of the outerwear and trousers mixed with the variety in shades of greys and blacks. The unexpected use of sandals with socks is not uncommon but for me this really bumps up the all round classiness of a somewhat flawless collection. Nice one.

All images from men.style.com