Joao Paulo Nunes

After months of refurbishment work, Leicester Square, renowned for hosting world-class film festivals and premieres in the heart of London, unveiled a new look at a glitzy red-carpet event on 23 May attended by a bevy of local government politicos, including the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. The redesigned square...

I'd like to believe that I am guided by the premise that fashion is essentially about wearing what makes you feel comfortable and confident. This should be an ever-evolving personal process that relies on acquiring the knowledge and experience of wearing a garment or accessory in order to make it...

London's Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) is marking the unveiling of its refurbished fashion galleries on 19 May with the exhibition 'Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950'. If the title might conjure anachronic perceptions of fashion, the stunning display dissipates any concern. Instead of focussing on old-fashioned tropes and mores of...

American menswear brand Jack Spade has selected London as the location for its first European store. With seven stores in the US and one in Japan, this is the ninth Jack Spade store in the world since the brand's original shop opened on Greene Street in New York City in...

More often than not, London fashion designers produce collections that are frequently renowned for their unbridled eccentricity rather than commercial acumen. Over the last few decades the prestigious fashion schools based in the British capital have established their reputation as cradles for outlandish sartorial creativity despite the fact that, on...

Fashion label twenty(2)too unveiled their Autumn/Winter 2012 collection a few months ago during Berlin Fashion Week.

Entitled 'Victoire: La Mort Lente de L'Esprit', the latest range of garments by Romanian designer Mihai Dan Zarug illustrates a very personal approach to fashion in what was undoubtedly his most...

Bodybound's menswear collection for Autumn/Winter 2012 stood out amongst the four menswear labels that showed as part of Vauxhall Fashion Scout's 'Ones To Watch Men' initiative during London Fashion Week.

The label was founded in 2009 by Kim Choong Wilkins, who studied fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art...

Any review of E. Taut'z most recent menswear collections needs to start by acknowledging that it is virtually impossible to differentiate between Patrick Grant, the man, and E. Tautz, the label. Since becoming director of E. Tautz in January 2009, Grant has instilled the brand with an image of sophisticated...

British designer Paul Smith showcased his womenswear Autumn/Winter 2012 collection as part of London Fashion Week a few weeks ago. Eschewing the main runway space that the British Fashion Council reserved for most designers, Smith chose (for the second consecutive season) the vast and sumptuous surroundings of the Royal Horticultural...

Apartment 58 opened its doors in London's Soho during London Fashion Week in February 2012 as a new global concept with accessible work and socialising spaces for the creative industries. The inaugural apartment is located at 58 Poland Street (the address that provides the name to the concept) and another...

It is undeniable that the borders between fashion and celebrity culture have become increasingly easier to cross over the last decade. People who are deemed to be famous whether owing to their hard work, innate talent or merely because their presence is captured in the public realm of media are...

Since graduating from London College of Fashion (LCF) in 2009 with a BA Menswear degree, Danish designer Asger Juel Larsen has been producing consistently high-standard designs. His latest menswear collection, shown on 22 February 2012 during London Fashion Week for Autumn/Winter 2012 was certainly no exception.

Named 'Lucid Disorder', Larsen's...

Christopher O'Brien completed an MA course in Fashion Design Menswear from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2011. His graduation collection was immediately recognised as showing tremendous potential and, as proof of O'Brien's talent, it was entirely bought by the store Late Night Chameleon Cafe (LN-CC), becoming...

Those who attended the runway show for Christopher Shannon's Autumn/Winter 2012 menswear collection on 23 February 2012 (as part of London Fashion Week) left with the feeling that this was undoubtedly the designer's most accomplished collection so far. Some even felt that Shannon managed to redeem himself from the previous...

One of the most popular menswear runway shows during London Fashion Week is the one that Fashion East and Topman organise under the moniker MAN to display the work of three promising and emerging labels. Shown over the last few seasons in the elegant environs of London's Royal Opera House,...

For her DAKS womenswear Autumn/Winter 2012 collection in the year that the brand celebrates 50 years as holder of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Warrant, Sheila McKain-Waid took inspiration from the inherent dichotomies and similarities that are found in British landscape and architecture. The focal points of this very...

Corrie Nielsen is a fashion designer who is clearly not afraid of dissecting the history of British fashion and costume in order to find inspiration for her collections. Whether as manifestly influenced by Elizabethan court and drama costumes or by Victorian dresses and capes, Nielsen's garments are unapologetic embodiments of...

Fashion designer Georgia Hardinge's star is undoubtedly shining brighter every season. Her Autumn/Winter 2012 womenswear collection, with the title 'Inverted', confirms not only her sartorial ingenuity but also her competent command of print, texture and volume as ways to appropriate art to the service of fashion.

The garments designed by...

The twisted and dark undertones of Henry Darger's mind and his 15,145-page opus The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion have inspired a number of artists since its author's death...

There was something naively perverse and yet intensely British and alluringly eccentric in selecting Antoni & Alison's runway show to open London Fashion Week for Autumn/Winter 2012/13. Although they have worked together for 25 years, Antoni Burakowski and Alison Roberts have never been regarded as being part of the fashion...