LFW SS25 | A Chin Wag With PHOEBE ENGLISH

The hearts are also reminiscent of monstera leaves and plant life. Though this was not part of the initial inspiration of the collection, it makes sense that the natural world could come into play. Our connection to each other is directly reflected by our connection to the earth. We are all beings of the planet, beings of love if we’re lucky and even luckier if we can share that lovingness with others…

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LFW SS25 | Meet The Designer: Mantle

Originally beginning their work four years ago, Mantle 2020 made their first London Fashion Week Debut on September 14th, 2024. Presenting their second capsule collection, the works are designed to be interchangeable and worn altogether. I spoke briefly with the Mantle 2020’s founder, lead designer, and all around one man show. We discussed the origins of the brand, the necessity in waiting, trusting the process and taking risks. Read below for a fuller image of the Mantle 2020, and its founder Dan Kallos…

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LFW SS25 | Masha Popova’s ‘Impulse’: Hot Mess Energy, Evolved

Masha Popova’s SS25 collection is a chaotic ode to growing up without growing out of being a hot mess, f*ck the pressure to have it all figured out (we certainly don’t) and this season’s designs isn’t shying away from slip-ups; instead it embraces them. From half-hanging out bras and boxers, straps falling down shoulders and stockings slipping left right and centre, all those unplanned, messy moments of early adulthood are translated into design and, as we’d say, for the plot…

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LFW SS25 | Live From The Front Row at Justin Cassin’s Menswear Show

Sitting front-row at Justin Cassin’s latest menswear show during London Fashion Week 2024, I found myself pondering on what it meant to be a creative. As I fidgeted with my belt, burrowing a new hole to make the fit just right, it hit me: creativity is about making things work for you and with my latest act, I’d qualified. Fashion, at its heart, is about DIY. It’s about resourcefulness, adaptation, and using whatever’s at your disposal to create something uniquely yours. This clicked for me while I watched Cassin’s innovative designs strut past. With an organic balance between modernist elegance and traditional structure, individuality was the star of the show…

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LFW SS25 | Tell the Truth’s ‘Blood Moon’

A catwalk in a crypt is exactly where we want to be, at all times maybe. But we were actually at one, on the Friday of fashion week this year. Tell the Truth displayed their UK debut at St Martin’s in the Field, in London’s Trafalgar Square. The US streetwear label, by Rainy Womack has been making waves for a while so no doubt the London scene were keen to catch this one, as the brand touched down on UK soil for their city premiere…

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LFW SS25 | Charlie Constantinou Embracing Earth, Elements, The Unknown

Constantinou’s collection comes with a mindset forged in the fires of survival, enlightened by the resourcefulness of Bedouin tribes who have inhabited the desert for centuries, SS25 channels that spirit into modern life, reminding us to reconnect with nature (something we’ve become especially detached from in the west) encouraging us to cultivate the same inner strength and adaptability our ancestors once inherited from being in tune with the mother nature and her many moods…

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