Men’s Fashion

Trousers maketh man, a great man once told us. Or was it manners? Whichever it was, we’re sure he’d agree that a good pair of slacks can be transformative. Though often overlooked in favour of the latest must-cop shirt or have-to-have-it jacket, a pair of well-fitting trousers can leave you look taller (cropped styles do

Men’s style isn’t just about clothes. Having an eye for design and appreciation for quality needn’t be limited to just the garments we choose to wear, and a well-curated wardrobe surely deserves a well-curated home. This is where people like Tom O’Dell come in. A stylist who works with both menswear and interiors, plus an

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have noticed that tailoring is undergoing one of the biggest refits in the history of suiting. Because fewer and fewer people need a suit for work, the choice to wear one at all is becoming more about style than dress codes. And that means options: more cuts,

Outerwear could well be the most important piece of your wardrobe. There’s no other garment that does quite as much to transform a look as a coat or jacket – outerwear is armour, both aesthetically and functionally. And because it takes up most of your outfit’s real estate, so it has the potential to either

Narrowing down all the watches seen over a year to just 17 of the best is a Sisyphean task; every time you think you’ve got it nailed, you take a final cursory look at your Instagram feed and discover you’ve overlooked an absolute smash hit and find yourself re-evaluating every decision for the 20th time.

Call Scrooge if you want to but we’re not big fans of tacky Christmas jumpers. You can be festive – hell, even jolly – without wearing twinkly, captioned knitwear that says, “Tickle My Baubles”. Unfortunately, this is a message lost on a nation where there’s at least one Banter Claus lurking in every office. In

Aside from the question of who in sound mind would plan their big day to fall during the darkest depths of winter, figuring out what to wear for a winter wedding is more often than not a complete pain in the backside. Black tie? Red tie? Air tie? Go sans-socks or wear bright white tennis

Consider this an apology. For years we – and the rest of the style world, in fact – have been telling you that suits should be neat and closely fitted. But as it turns out, everything we thought we knew is wrong. For the past few seasons, a slate of designers has been making the

Out of the four fashion capitals – Milan, Paris, New York, and London – London is the one most defined by just how many styles it incorporates. From punks to Sloanes, tailoring to streetwear, the city’s look is diverse and dynamic. Which is why it’s about the best place you can go to buy clothes.

When in need of a new layer to keep you warm, whether or not it has sleeves tends to be a dealbreaker. After all, you wouldn’t buy a car without brakes or a house without a roof, would you? It’s just a fundamental part of the package. But to strike a gilet from your outerwear

If you’re going to dress up at any time of year, the Christmas period is it. Dress like Mark Zuckerburg for the other eleven months if you want to, but when December comes around, it’s time to step up. Or at least, there are generally more occasions that require you to up your game: dinners

It’s one of the most underrepresented boots out there. Chances are you’ve never owned a pair. In fact, you might not even know the style exists. It’s a shame, though, because in spite of its relative obscurity the Oxford boot remains one of the most stylish, characterful and unapologetically British footwear styles a man can

There was a time, not so very long ago, when to don a pair of trousers with a drawstring and elasticated waist on a day-to-day basis was to admit defeat. It was a white flag to the end of youth; the sartorial equivalent of trading your sports car in for a people carrier or buying

Let’s get one thing straight: you don’t have to obsess about colour. No one is going to judge you for wearing last season’s shade of russet instead of this season’s shade of smokey topaz. If they do, they deserve to be slapped a shade of 2015’s Marsala red. As long as you follow the obvious

No other menswear tribe has dominated fashion in the 21st century quite like streetwear. It’s seen many victories in the past decade, from the biggest fish in its ocean, Supreme, getting valued at $1 billion, to Virgil Abloh, founder of Off-White becoming the king of fashion at Louis Vuitton, and all while the genre dominates

The stuffy, outdated rules of menswear – those dictating what you can wear and when and with what – are fast eroding. Where our fathers’ wardrobes were governed by dress codes explicit and implied, now anarchy rules. It’s well-dressed anarchy, but anarchy nonetheless. Formal threads now nestle against streetwear, trainers sprout in offices, and whether

The desire to make some extra cash, combined with our collective conscience poking at us to be more sustainable, has led to a boom in the reselling market. Take Depop. The peer-to-peer shopping app’s $62m (£48m) investment is evidence the demand is firmly there for the industry to continue to grow. Of course, reselling is

As the rain hits the roof of a photography studio on an industrial estate in South East London, two young British actors are planning to take over the world. Stephen Odubola is trying to persuade Micheal Ward that he should move to Los Angeles. Like any good British chat, it starts with the weather, but

It starts, like everything else, with Elvis Presley. Before the boy from Memphis first shimmied his way onstage, fashion and music were only connected in as much as artists had to wear something when they performed. After him, rock stars would be the biggest influence on what young people wore for the next half a

If you have good taste, as the saying goes, you can shop anywhere. But knowing what to buy when you get there, well that’s a different story altogether. For all the smart-casual occasions that might come up during the winter season, it’s hard to beat a classic overcoat. Insulating, versatile and an easy way to

You just turned 30. Which means you’re a proper grown-up now. Work’s going alright; you can finally afford to not live on a diet consisting solely of instant noodles, but you’re certainly no baller. While your mum no longer cuts the crusts off of your fish finger sandwiches, you’re not quite ready to retire to

The cold-weather headwear landscape is a notoriously tricky area to traverse. Beanies are basically the only vaguely acceptable option, and let’s face it, they’re hardly held in high regard by followers of fashion. You can’t really blame them either. After all, usually when these woollen warmers stray into the public fashion consciousness there have been

The fashion industry is notoriously unforgiving for the larger man. Or at least, it used to be. Yes, runways are still populated by Amazonian ectomorphs, but on the high street, brands are waking up to the fact that the average man is getting bigger and no, he doesn’t want to be fobbed off by yet

‘Tis the season. The TV ads are getting insufferable, there’s tinsel everywhere, and with the Christmas period bearing down, a familiar complaint rears its head: “You’re so difficult to buy for.” You’d swear that Christmas gifts for men were about as hard to find as the lost Ark of the Covenant. We’re here to tell