JUNIOR OSAS
Introducing dancer and model Junior Osas.
Photographed in Barcelona by Jon Gómez de la Peña
Assistant Photographer Airam Rodríguez
Jacquemus' second book 'IMAGES' is out now
After “MARSEILLE JE T’AIME“, JACQUEMUS publishes a second book entitled “IMAGES“, which gathers photos taken by Simon Porte Jacquemus with his iPhone, since 2010
Simon Porte Jacquemus notes “I have 85 041 photos and 22 739 videos on my phone. Here are a few of my favorite ones.”
The designer mentioned that there is not so much fashion in the book as it focus more on the lifestyle, the vision and his everyday life.
TRAICIONERO
A REY exclusive fashion editorial.
Photographed by Michael Geo
Styling & Direction Christos Christou
Starring Andrea Ceraso @ MODEL PRO Agency
Moschino Resort 2021 Men Collection
Jeremy Scott unveiled his Resort 2021 collection for Moschino and here are our favourite looks from the campaign:
DIOR x Daniel Arsham “Transparent High-Top Rubber Boots”
These translucent rubber boots are a contemporary take on classic industrial styles, inspired by the art of Daniel Arsham. Constructed from translucent rubber, the boots are chunky and durable and set on a multi-part tread sole stamped with the ‘Dior’ signature on the side. Try pairing them with bold socks to create your own look.
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
Modus Vivendi launches the Camouflage Swimwear Line
The elevated Modus VIvendi camo print offers a fresh approach on military fashion for this summer.
New adventures and new beginnings this summer with the Camouflage Swimwear line. The new elevated swimwear line has larger pattern, is bolder and its pastel character creates a contradiction you`ll love.
Discovering new lands literally and metaphorically while battling and winning with habits it’s this summer’s moto. Be the change you want to see.
The Modus Vivendi Camouflage line, available in black and white, features a colorful unique camo print in each piece and internal strings. This swimwear is super comfortable, offering minimal coverage with the MV logo embossed on the back. Made from polyamide elastane fabric, this swimwear line is masculine and sexy, ideal for the man who dares to challenge reality and conquer new levels.
The Camouflage line comprises of Briefs, Low Cut Briefs, Shorts, Trunk Boxers & Towels.
Photographer: Joan Crisol @joan_crisol
Models: Pedro Gonzalez @pedrogllez & Sergio Diaz Rullo @xgio_bdr
Videographer: Raul Flory @aticonorteproducciones
Location: Tenerife, Canary Islands
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.
Our Conversation with Dimitris Theocharis about COVID-19, Changes in the Fashion Industry and more
The Greek American Fashion and Portrait photographer Dimitris Theocharis has seen his work in many leading publications including Vanity Fair, Harpers Bazaar, ELLE and Vogue. Currenlly based in South London, the innovative, award-winning photographer talks exclusively to our Editor in Chief about the life after quarantine, all the changes in fashion, and a lot more.
REY: Hello Dimitris and thank you for accepting our invitation. How are your days during quarantine? Has the lockdown changed a lot from your daily routine?
Yes and no…my days are full, just as before, I have redirected my energy and focus on different aspects of my career and life. Apart from the obvious physical limitations of not going out, or taking on new projects, there are a plethora of ways to stay busy and be creative.
For example, I've started cooking again, so no more food deliveries and a good part of my day revolves around the food and the quality of the food I am going to make. I am lucky to have set up a small gym at my place so I can continue with my fitness routine with the addition of mediation, tai chi and cycling.
I socialise with my friends and family regularly over FaceTime and have had few zoom parties..
The list goes on, we are fortunate to live in an age that we can still conduct our lives with a good level of “normality” during these difficult times.
Work wise, I am focusing on archiving and editing past material in the hope to create a retrospective book of some of my work. I am still in the process of putting a magazine together….(need to find the time for this) as well as finding the time to kick start a couple of business ideas I’ve had for a while.
REY: Do you think that our ‘everyday life’ and routine will change after covid-19? Or actually are we going to change as people?
Whilst this pandemic has been hyped as doomsday by the media, in reality it is one of many in a long history of pandemics (and by now it looks like we have managed to contain it to a certain level).
I don’t think in the long run Covid-19 will change radically or notably the progress or the path of life as we know it. Until we have an effective treatment we will be living with uncertainty…. we will be facing the same issues as we do now, home schooling, working from home, closures, lockdowns, the economy shrinking and sadly loss of life.
Nonetheless, I hope that this situation brings some positive changes to humanity as we unite to resolve this crisis and will give a push to science and technology to come up with solutions and methods of preventing or containing outbreaks similar to this one in a more effective, efficient and humane way.
From investing more money in medical research, modernising the health care systems of each and every country, improving aviation conditions, restructuring public transportation and office spaces and even the way we run entire cities etc but again Rome was not built in a day… or even in a few millennia….
However I fear that we are not mature enough to see the bigger picture and we will end up focusing on all non vital things and once again waste our energy in trivial matters.
On an individual level, people tend to fall back into their habits however good or bad these are, so yes undoubtably life for some people has and will change, because they have been directly affected by this virus, maybe some of us will think twice about handshakes or travelling, maybe some will continue to look after themselves as intensely as they have during this period, but as I said I doubt major changes will take place or will come abruptly or exclusively because of Covid-19.
Covid-19 could be the catalyst, or fast-forward changes that had to happen.
REY: COVID-19 has affected the world's economy and the fashion industry is one of the sections which has been affected the most. What, in your opinion, could help Fashion to bounce back to the level it was before?
First we need to ask why? Why should fashion bounce back? What has fashion got left to offer? What is the role and significance of fashion in 2020 when we are facing a pandemic?
When we are facing a global crisis, people spend on essentials or on low risk secure investments. I don’t think anyone was worrying about stockpiling in Hermes scarves in the early days of this pandemic but instead they went for toilet paper. Retrospectively you can reuse a scarf… so maybe it wouldn’t have been a bad idea after all. (No disrespect to Hermes or to toilet paper).
Jokes aside, the fashion industry needs to evolve, it’s been riding on aggressive marketing strategies for a few decades with little “real” innovation. In essence, it has been focusing and capitalising on style over substance.
This symbiotic relationship of creating a false need for a constant update of our style/clothing with the continued supply of new products/collections has contributed to hyper consumerism. This has resulted in constant revenue growth for the fashion industry with a 14% jump in 2019 making it $2.2 trillion industry (including footwear and jewellery).
It’s an ingenious but highly flawed system.
Fashion is not essential, but clothing is, so when the times get tough non essentials take a secondary role.
REY: Does this mean that the 'fashion bubble' (which lasted for years) is about to burst?
Burst no. Temporarily shrink? Yes, like many industries will. The fashion industry needs to go into survival mode and some sort of damage control strategy has to be implemented whilst we are facing this pandemic.
From brands hibernating for a season or two, to investing on online-virtual/augmented reality shopping experiences, to diversifying product range, to utilising stock from previous seasons, to introducing rent and resale strategies, to reduction in prices - there are always ways to entice and cut corners but still make revenue.
Heritage luxury brands: whilst some may thrive (as in the case of Hermes after the 2008 economic crisis) will take a small hit as their product can be translated as a “low risk investment”. Items that are not defined by season, are made to last and hold their value are always a safe buy.
High street fashion: will take a hit, but because they form the main staple of peoples apparel, their product can be considered as essentials and thus it will recover quickly.
Sadly, I believe the ones that are going to be affected the most are the vulnerable brands, the ones that fall in the in-between category; new brands and startups, that haven’t yet established a loyal client base, cutting edge experimental brands and so on. However in some countries government funding is in place to help businesses through these difficult times.
I believe this recession will be a short lived one, and fashion will continue its economic growth. But to what end…?
Slowing down could be the way forward, when it comes to environmental issues.
REY: Yes, I have to admit that we have seen changes happening during the last years, especially with thesome big fashion houses. For example, Gucci is working on its collections every season in order to create a continuity between them. So let's say if you have bought a piece in 2016 you can definitely combine it with a piece from 2020's collection . Other fashion houses have started presenting only two collections per year instead of four (cutting out the pre-collections).
True, some houses are adapting to the new reality.
Nonetheless this is a great opportunity for introspection and true innovation in both design and production chains. Covid 19, may be the necessary break that the fashion industry needs in order to refocus, re-envision, restructure and solve its bigger issues.
Sustainability, ethically/ environmentally conscious production chains and transparency are the flaming issues of this industry.
Creating tanseasonal, long lasting garments could be one of the solutions to the environmental issues we are facing. Certified and recycled fabrics are available and already few brands are finally adapting to this greener reality.
REY: Yes, we have seen some changes and recycled materials coming into use. Prada for example, has presented new techniques for its Linea Rossa collection and the directors have presented the ReNylon collection using recycled nylon. The brand admits that it will use only recycled nylon material and it hopes to roll out this approach across the board in the next few years, a goal that would see all 700,000 meters of nylon used every year by the company go green. All the above and many more will be part of the Sustainability deal that Prada signed and it will be complete in the next 5 years. (€50 million sustainability term loan with Crédit Agricole Group)
Nonetheless changing consumer’s attitude towards fashion is another issue.
For decades fashion has pushed the “I’d rather die than be seen twice in the same outfit” mentality… and now we are facing the consequences of this propaganda.
We consume fashion faster than ever before so we produce more fashion than ever before and vice versa.
Blaming high street giants is not the answer, when the reality is that this mentality was created and is still maintained by the constant creation of new collections, trends and more invasive marketing strategies by the high end fashion corporations.
Reshaping consumer mentality is a key part of this process. Becoming environmentally conscious about our buying choices can speed up the shift towards sustainability.
It is the responsibility of the brands to communicate their ethos and transparency of their production chain to their customers, so the consumer can make informed choices.
But where is the importance and vision in the fashion industry? Is it a mere rehashing of patterns or decorating fabrics? Why not create a Prada or a Primark garment that can protect you from environmental pollutants and viruses whilst it is polymorphic, doesn’t stain, it’s adaptable to temperature, it can change colour to fit your mood, has zero emission in its production and you can recycle or compost?
New fabric research and new technologies should be at the forefront of the industry, we all know cotton is the most popular but one of the most thirsty in production fibbers, whilst water scarcity is a reality for two thirds of the world’s population.
For an industry that claims to be trendsetting, cutting edge, progressive with liberal sensitivities, it still feels stuck in a self indulgent stage. These environmental issues have been known for decades…. finally some in the fashion industry are taking action.
REY: Would Covid-19 speed up this process?
I hope so, but I doubt it. After Covid-19 I think more invasive marketing strategies will be the main focus as brands will try to regain some of their losses, whilst funding research on new materials and technologies will move to the bottom of the investment agenda.
Thankfully as highlighted by the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action which was created in 2018, clear targets and timetables are set out for the industry to meet in the foreseeable future.
It is a difficult and complex conundrum, but it must be solved quickly.
I really don’t want to demonise or diminish the recent initiatives and progress on environmental issues by some in the fashion industry, its cultural contribution and importance for the global economy, or the creativity and the craftsmanship that often characterises fashion i.e the love and care that goes into the construction of a haute couture garment. It can be and it is art at its purest forms.
Nor do I want to diminish the industry’s applaudable response, humanitarian and fund raising efforts during this pandemic.
These are the aspects of the Fashion Industry that need to be preserved, cherished, celebrated and respected.
Thank you for having me.
YSL Beauty: Every day Make-up for Men
Make-up for men is going mainstream with subtle products designed to enhance your best features and hide spots and general knackeredness. Some years ago make up for men was another one taboo, but not anymore. Debate what it means for masculinity if you like because we’re not going to.
We don’t think it’s really a revolution, or feminisation gone berserk. It’s just an option – one you can take or leave as you see fit to fine-tune your appearance.
Because , men get black spots before a date or dark circles after a long night working or clubbing.
Our beauty editor and Greece’s YSL beauty expert Christos Theophanous has some of the easiest YSL products to use, even if it wil be for every day use and for different occasions every time:
TOUCHE ÉCLAT FOUNDATION
WHAT IT IS
The magic light of Touche Éclat in the 1st radiance awakening foundation by YSL Beauty. More fatigue-defying and better flawless coverage than ever.
WHAT IT DOES
Enriched with the stimulating power of Ruscus Extract, the anti-fatigue formula energizes skin by stimulating micro-circulation and targeting dullness to instantly improve skin brightness and luminosity. Vitamin E protects against free radicals. Formulated with SPF 22 to provide sun protection, it leaves a weightless finish while offering eight hours of a refreshed, radiant look.
ALL HOURS FOUNDATION
WHAT IT IS
A 24-Hour, natural matte foundation with buildable medium-to-full-coverage that instantly blurs pores and fines lines, for uninterrupted flawless wear that looks just-applied all day. All Hours Foundation is now available in 33 shades to strike the right balance of undertones. It is made in France with the finest pigments and ingredients that respect and care for the skin and provide the perfect natural matte finish – not too matte and never shiny, so you look naturally flawless. All Hours is oil free, non comedogenic and dermatologist tested.
WHAT IT DOES
All Hours 24-Hour advanced formula won’t cake, dry, flake or fade. The transfer-proof, oil-free and non-pore clogging formula comes in 33 shades. Flexible pigments and skin-loving ingredients provide flawless coverage that stands up to makeup meltdowns. The weightless texture leaves skin feeling fresh and comfortable all day, like you have nothing on. Instantly blurs and erases imperfections, pores and unevenness thanks to the highest concentration of ultra-fine, oil absorbing pigments that cover and smooth perfectly yet resist sweat and humidity. No touch ups required. The formula is infused with a black tea anti-oxidant complex for additional skin care that combats the signs of dullness and fatigue, while protecting skin from pollution.
DESSIN DU REGARD WATERPROOF EYELINER PENCIL
WHAT IT IS
A bold waterproof eyeliner that creates precise liner looks.
WHAT IT DOES
Get lasting hold and intense color payoff with this eye pencil. Featuring high-impact colors, this smudge-proof liner offers a comfortable glide-on application and high-impact color that stays put for up to 12 hours.
Find out more on YSL Beauty online
Photography: Dimitrios Kleanthous
Grooming: Christos Theophanous
Model is Alexandros @ VN Models
Men's hairstyle trends for spring-summer 2020
The men's hair trends of spring-summer 2020 as we’ve seen them on fashion weeks around the world.
THE WET EFFECT
THE BOWL CUT
THE PUNK: color spirit
Mid-Length
THE SHAVED HEAD
Isabel Marant MEN: The Fall 2020-21 Lookbook
Isabel Marant unveiled the lookbook for its Fall/Winter 2020-21 menswear collection.
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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
WAKING UP
Photography & Direction Nicolas Aristidou
starring Brian Nicklen
Hard Clo: From Athens to Rome - Exclusive Content
The Greek brand Hard Clo travels to Rome for new projects and adventures.
Hard Clo has unveiled its new capsule collection ROME-ATHENS on instagram. The collection is called ANTIQUE MINERALS and it’s inspired by the history of the Italian capital.
ANTIQUE MINERALS collection will be available at Agora Trastevere Market at Alcazar Live, Rome from the 21st of December for limited period only.
