Jacquemus Opens New Store in London

Mr Simon Porte Jacquemus has collaborated with OMA for his latest store, a Meditteranean-inspired boutique, in the Heart of Mayfair.

The boutique showcases the complete men and women collections but it also serves as an art gallery, showcasing a curated selection of pieces that resonate with Simon Porte Jacquemus’s artistic sensibility.

From antique furniture to contemporary art, the collection offers a glimpse into the designer’s inspirations and creates a truly immersive shopping experience.

The top floor, a private VIP salon, offers a cocoon-like experience, completely rounded and bathed in natural light.

JACQUEMUS « THE LONDON BOUTIQUE »

33 NEW BOND STREET, W1S 2RS LONDON, UK

image credit: Courtesy of Jacquemus // source: fuckingyoung.es

GCDS Spring Summer 2024 Campaign

GCDS present their Spring/Summer 2024 campaign, produced and photographed in Los Angeles by celebrity paparazzi agency Backgrid.

Founder and creative director of GCDS, Giuliano Calza notes: “LA is the perfect playground to bring clothing to life, animating looks beyond the runway. In a world that often overlooks the beauty of the every day, stepping out of the studio to capture this campaign was a rare and refreshing experience.”

Edward Crutchley - SEASON 17 Show at London Fashion Week

Edward Crutchley unveiled its “Season 17” collection during London Fashion Week.

“…the queerness of Gothic is such that its main function is to demonstrate the relationship between the marginal and the mainstream.”— Queering the Gothic

Check out below our favourite looks:

DIOR Men Pre-Fall 2022: Watch the London show (Video)

Kim Jones brought a youthquake to London with an exhibition and runway show inspired by Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation of writers.

Kim Jones brought an American spirit of freedom, the rebellious energy of youth culture — and the Brits’ knack for offbeat fashion — to the Dior men’s runway at Kensington Olympia in west London on Thursday night.

It was the first time since 2003 that Jones has staged a show in his home country, and he returned with a vengeance. He presented an eclectic pre-fall collection, followed by a massive, champagne-fuelled party — topped off with a surprise performance by Grace Jones.

source: wwd.com

ANDREA CASSAVIA

A REY exclusive portrait series photographed in Manchester, UK.

Produced and Photographed by Malc Stone

Introducing Andrea Cassavia.from NEMESIS Models

JORDANLUCA Fall Winter 2021 Show at London Fashion Week

JORDANLUCA presented its Fall/Winter 2021 collection “YOU ARE HERE” during London Fashion Week.

Check out our favourite looks:

Dark Ocean

Photographed by Josh Brandão

Styling Jody Van Geert

Grooming: Aaron Henrikson Hair: Thiago Menezes & Vitor Barreto

Starring Bruno Krause, Felipe Portella, Gabriel Meroto @ 40 Graus Models, Rio de Janeiro

Video Editor: Nicolai Kornum

Photography Assistants: Bucker Nunes & Rebecca Oliveira

Styling Assistant: Cecile de Mul Make Up Assistant: Gabriel Gomez

Gender Neutral London Fashion Week to Launch With Digital Platform

British Fashion Council (BFC) today announces that for the next twelve months all London Fashion Weeks will merge womenswear and menswear into one gender neutral platform, to allow designers greater flexibility. For this June, London Fashion Week, will take a new form, as a digital-only platform in light of the current environment, and will run from 12th June 2020 through the time period of former London Fashion Week Men’s. The digital platform www.londonfashionweek.co.uk will relaunch and be for both trade and consumer audiences; embracing the cultural commentary, creativity and humorous spirit for which British fashion and London are known for.

Caroline Rush CBE, BFC Chief Executive commented: “It is essential to look at the future and the opportunity to change, collaborate and innovate. Many of our businesses have always embraced London Fashion Week as a platform for not just fashion but for its influence on society, identity and culture. The current pandemic is leading us all to reflect more poignantly on the society we live in and how we want to live our lives and build businesses when we get through this. The other side of this crisis, we hope will be about sustainability, creativity and product that you value, respect, cherish. By creating a cultural fashion week platform, we are adapting digital innovation to best fit our needs today and something to build on as a global showcase for the future.  Designers will be able to share their stories, and for those that have them, their collections, with a wider global community; we hope that as well as personal perspectives on this difficult time, there will be inspiration in bucketloads. It is what British fashion is known for.”  

London Fashion Week June 2020 will put storytelling at its heart and give a voice to British fashion businesses and creatives, allowing them to tell their stories in these extraordinary times by tapping into London’s cultural zeitgeist and highlighting its position as a global multi-cultural city. Bringing the fashion community together, the platform will host exclusive multimedia content from designers, creatives, artists and brand partners, enabling collaboration and bringing together fashion, culture and technology. 
This new digital experience will be open to a global public and trade audience, and will work as a meet-up point, offering interviews, podcasts, designer diaries, webinars and digital showrooms, giving the opportunity to designers to generate sales for both the public through existing collections and the retailers through orders for next season’s products.

Alongside longstanding brand partners of London Fashion Week, British GQ, Evening Standard, JD.COM, INC, LAVAZZA, LetsBab, Mercedes-Benz, The May Fair Hotel and TONI&GUY, BFC has engaged a number of digital pioneering brands, including Amazon Launchpad, Facebook, Google, Instagram, JOOR, ORDRE/ORB360 and YouTube, who will all be activating content in unique ways, helping British designer businesses reach new public and trade audiences. The generosity and commitment of our partners, suppliers and supporters is more vital than ever. Please help us by acknowledging their support for London Fashion Week June 2020 alongside our Official Suppliers: Fashion & Beauty Monitor, Getty Images, Launchmetrics, S’well and Official Supporters: The Department for International Trade, The European Regional Development Fund and The Mayor of London.

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Photography & Direction Malc Stone

Starring Jak Lowdon @ Elite London

JW ANDERSON x Uniqlo: The Spring Summer 2020 collection

A British summer collection - in pictures.

JW Anderson revisits the British wardrobe and its signature prints like the Check pattern and patchwork through bags and accessories, and offers ultra comfortable pieces ranging from XXL pants to flowing shirts. For the first time, in addition to the woman and the man, the tandem also signs several pieces for children.

The JW Anderson x Uniqlo collection will be available from March 12 on the Uniqlo e-shop and in stores.

source: vogue hommes

House of Illustration will open the UK’s first public solo show dedicated to artist Tom of Finland

This year House of Illustration will open the UK’s first public solo show dedicated to gay cultural icon and prolific artist Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen), in partnership with Tom of Finland Foundation and the Finnish Institute in London.

This timely exhibition, on the centenary of his birth, will celebrate the artist whose homoerotic visions had a profound effect on gay communities in Europe and North America during a pivotal period in their history and continue to have an immeasurable influence on popular culture today. Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation will display 40 works on paper produced from the 1960s to the 1980s, both before and after homosexuality was decriminalised in much of Europe and the U.S.

It will include early drawings of men fighting that constituted the only legal way to show physical contact between men before decriminalisation, as well as illustrations from his iconic Kake comics and rare linocuts produced in very limited editions.

The exhibitiion wil be on from the 6th of March until late June.

Book your ticket online

NATASHA ZINKO FW2020 at Men's Paris Fashion Week

We haven’t seen Natasha Zinko in London this season as she has shown her Fall/Winter 2020 men collection at the beggining of Paris Fashion Week.

Check out part of the collection here:

FW2020-21: Best of London Fashion Week Men's

2020 found us in London waiting for Men’s Fashion Week. This season was all about the new talents as many of the big names are not showing in the English fashion capital anymore. Our stylist & editor Martina Ghia was out and around and she has put down all you need about it.

Fall Winter 2020-21 seems to be a new era on men’s fashion with a lot of 90s elements, deconstructed denim and total denim looks, wide trousers, oversized coats and of course the new tailoring - a complete new generation on the classic tailoring, showing the elegance of the trend with a twist.

Below you’ll find the best of looks from some of our favourite shows:

Martine Rose

Per Götesson

Wales Bonner

Charles Jeffrey Loverboy

Pronounce

Astrid Andersen

EROTOKRITOS Paris: The FW 2019/2020 campaign projects

The lifestyle and fashion brand EROTOKRITOS Paris revealed its Fall Winter menswear collection with an editorial campaign in two parts.

In the first editorial campaign is all about the EROTOKRITOS knitwear stories. Bold colour combinations , geometrical shapes and motifs are the main characteristics of the new line. Starring Lucas Weslet.

The designer continues to embrace the new ‘contemporary’ style and aesthetic and this time he introduce us his new scarf linein the second part of his Fall Winter presentation. Starring Iasonas Laios.


Discover more about EROTOKRITOS and check out the full collections inside his new e-shop

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KOJO in the studio with Stavros Christodoulou

A REY exclusive. Model Kojo Hammond, who recently starred in the latest H&M conscious collection campaign, is photographed by Stavros Christodoulou in London. Kojo is represented by FIRST Models London

Carolina Herrera’s “Bad Boy” to be our next favourite perfume

American fashion brand Carolina Herrera has recently launched BAD BOY, a male companion to its Good Girl fragrance with a campaign that aims to portray the scent wearer’s electric attraction.

ALL ABOUT HER ‘BAD BOY’:

A strong oriental scent, crammed with fresh elements such as green bergamot, sage, and red and white pepper. In addition to this, the scent is then further-boosted by roasted amber wood, tonka bean, and cacao.

THE CAMPAIGN:

Featuring British actor Ed Skrein as the face of the new fragrance campaign. So good to be bad…

REY EXCLUSIVE: Interview with the Fashion Editor Luca Falcioni

The new Men’s Fashion Editor of Schön! Magazine talks exclusively on REY.

The Italian stylist who managed to put his name in some of the most important fashion publications ( Wonderland, Vogue, L’Officiel and more), talks to REY about fashion and styling, his personal experience in fashion and many more.

After studying and working in Rome, Luca moved to London to work in fashion. For him everything started at Selfridges where he used to work. His passion for fashion made his clients to want more and more from him and his personal styling skills push him to search more about it.

Was it easy for you to get the first job as a fashion stylist?  How have you started your fashion journey? 

My first experience in fashion was as an intern in the Fendi Head Office in Rome. I spent 6 months working on: digitisation of the brand's historical archive, rearranging and making a selection of sketches by Karl Lagerfeld, organising exhibitions of furs in Japan, dealing with the restoration of ready-to-wear and accessories from the archive (only to mention a few). It was an incredible experience! I learned a lot from it and definitely made me understand how to deal with different situations in the world of work. My strength of will and curiosity have always guided me during my journey. After the internship I moved to London looking for a new adventure. I started working for Selfridges, famous luxury department store in Central London, as a client advisor first and then as a manager. After years on the shop floor dealing with clothes and styling clients, from all over the world, I suddenly understood that styling was my real passion. Mixing and matching different garments and brands I was able to express myself creating looks. So I decided to look for an internship in the editorial business and Wonderland was my start up. I was in charge of 4 different publications (Wonderland, Man About Town, Rollacoaster and Gaytimes). I started just shooting for online. I was constantly experimenting with styling and working with different artists and after few months I started shooting printed projects. From that moment on, I have never stopped: covers, editorials, worldwide campaigns (Swatch, Netflix, Fiorucci, Police just to name a few) and celebrities. 

How would you describe yourself as a stylist? What is your vision?

My personal style is sexy, rock n’ roll which influences my work too. On set I use lot of leather, transparent garments, ripped denim, animalier prints, lace and accessories. I love making models/ talents feel confident and sensual. I have created my own aesthetic through the idea of ​​beauty that I have developed over the experiences and the years. Once Sofia Loren said :'A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view’. Italia is love, sex and culture. Being Italian definitely has influenced my vision.

 Editorial or Celebrity styling? 

I like both! When I am on set with models i don’t have any filters, I can let my imagination runs wild. They follow my directions and wear whatever I want.

Completely different when I style celebrities, they have their own brand to consider. My job is to make them happy and confident spotlighting their personalities. It is definitely more challenging than models. But I am an Aries, I love challenges!

In your job you have to study about fashion and search for ideas all the time. How do you find inspiration for your projects?

My main sources of inspiration are: music, art, cinema and fashion. Living in this era where technology is fundamental, social media definitely influence and inspire my work too. Even my country has been influenced me through: the origins, history, culture, and therefore its cinema, its literature and the characters that were its icons. 

Have you found your muse? Any other models we should watch?

Personally I have more than one. I always discover new people who are a source of artistic inspiration. Right now I am obsessed with : Zendaya, Rosalia, Lizzo and Billie Ellish. They are all strong, stylish and talented women. In terms of model I am obsessed with : Aweng Chuol (who I shot for Collectible Dry), Fernando Lindez, Alton Maison, Mica Argañaraz.

You have worked with a lot of celebrities. Which collaboration was your favourite and why?

Few months ago I worked on one of the most memorable projects I've done so far. I styled the worldwide campaign for Police ( brand that produces sunglasses and accessories) with Lewis Hamilton. The formula one driver has been five times Formula One World Champion. He is often considered the best driver of his generation and widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport. Fast cars are not just his interest, he is also really into fashion. Lewis has teamed up with the American fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger to create his own line called TommyXLewis and he did the same with Police designing his own sunglasses collection. 

Styling and spending time with him on set was really inspiring. Unfortunately I can’t tell you more… the campaign is coming out soon. Can’t wait to share it with all of you!

Even shooting one of the main character from Game of Thrones : Maisie Williams. She was so lovely on set and she looked stunning wearing all Moschino for the cover story. I decided to make her completely different than the character she played in the famous series. She was colourful, sexy and confident. Stay tuned more celebrities and amazing projects are coming out soon.

Do you follow the trends? Which look is your favourite for this autumn/winter? (menswear)

it all depends if i am into the trend. I always try to propose stories that represent me and my vision. 

My favourite trends for Autumn/ Winter are : grunge, dyed hair, cargo pants, military and oversize tailoring.

Favourite new designers?

Marinne Serre, Richard Quinn, Dilara Findikoglu Daniel Flewtcher, CMMN and John Lawrence Sullivan.

I’m also obsessed with Daniel Lee, the new creative director of Bottega Veneta. I really like his vision, his daring and courageous creativity. 

Favourite SS20 collections?

Prada, Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Ludovic De Saint Sernin.

What advice would you give to someone who wants to start a career in fashion?

First of all choose an area of fashion where you would like to work. Fashion jobs include everything from: photography, styling, merchandising, buying to designing. Try your hardest to get as much experience as possible : internships are always a good way to start.

Don’t give up. Life rewards those who work hard at it.

Any future plans or project you would like to share with us…

I am travelling a lot this year and I have a lot of stories and a couple of campaign dropping soon. Look out for them across my channels below:

Official Website

Instagram

Models.com

TASOS XIARCHO x REY Magazine

He is one of the most inspirational dancers and choreographers in Greece.

We fell in love with his eccentric style and attitude and we couldn’t wait until the moment of his collaboration with REY.

He works for some of the biggest names in Greece like Tamta and Eleni Foureira and he usually doesn’t stop on the choreography part as he loves creating the whole image of the projects he produces ( including styling and art direction).

Tasos Xiarcho is a true artist and we are sure he will always excel in Greece and Europe.

Enjoy our latest REY addiction:

Photography AURA

Styling & Direction Christos Christou

Assistant Stylist & Coordinator Yolanda Teskou

Grooming Matina Katsaropoulou

Videographer Vasilis Kolokythas

Check out the exclusive interview at

THE GREEK ISSUE

AFTERGLOW is back in London's Waterloo East Theatre

After its sold-out run at Southwark Playhouse, AFTERGLOW transfers to Waterloo East Theatre, London with a brand new cast.

Josh and Alex are in an open married relationship. But after young Darius shares their bed for a night, a new intimate connection begins to form, and all three men must search for one another’s notions of love, intimacy, and commitment. Will their search for passion and intimacy come as easily as their freedom to play around?

Afterglow is a ‘steamy stripped-down look at gay intimacy’ (Huffington Post).

Recommended age 16+. This show contains strong language and nudity.

The play runs for a limited season. For more info and tickets check HERE

source: afterglow.co.uk

JW Anderson x Uniqlo: Their new collection is OUT NOW

For this fourth consecutive collaboration, JW Anderson continues to infuse his purely British DNA with the Japanese titan of the outerwear Uniqlo.

If, last season, the "cool-kid" of fashion across the Channel unveiled a summer wardrobe with Uniqlo where comfort remained spearhead, JW Anderson continues to give pride to England inspired by Saint Ives, a coastal city located in Cornwall County in the west of the country.

source: vogue hommes