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Karen Heshi: “Why must a suit look like a suit?”

The designer reflects on the tension between functionality and identification in her graduate collections.

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“I don’t really see myself as a fashion designer,” – Belgian artist Chris Lensz on mixing fashion design and photography

His graduate collection presented lots of tailoring and revolved around the concept of Victorian mourning

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Rin Choe on the artistry of pattern cutting and deconstructing Korean tradition

Choe fell into the industry unexpectedly, but in doing so, her collection aims to rewrite the traditions of her Korean heritage

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Orlando Yates’s jackets recall pre-COVID wild times at festivals

Menswear designer Orlando Yates on his sunrise-hued garments that were inspired by waking up at festivals

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Zitong Wang: In bloom

The Chinese designer is using distorted images of nature to redefine the codes of masculinity

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Eleanor Chapman: The power of adapting

The British designer believes that modular garments are the future of sustainable fashion

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Joe Pearson presents Five Archetypal Men in One Collection

His work explores notions of masculinity that range from the elegant yet nonchalant appearance of the dandy to Mr Pearl’s corsets to the traditional businessman’s suit

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Jamie Sutherland and the magpie’s paradise

Mixing 16kg worth of scavenged Nitrous Oxide canisters and luxury essential ‘toilet paper’ together in a grad collection

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Kat Lau’s man: contemporary, unregulated and free like a bird

Inspired by theories on the relation between body and mind, London-based menswear designer Kat Lau creates lightweight functional pieces that are meant to last.

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Vintage aficionado, Jiyong Kim, uses nature as a design device

What does it look like when nature becomes your greatest collaborator?

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Dahee Kim on abandoning the rulebooks and challenging childhood oppression

The Korean designer explores the isolating group culture and name-calling from her schooling days into a collection that celebrates self-expression and individuality