Sleeves Magazine July 2016 | Page 20

Admittedly it feels like the kind of honesty children give you in the instant ater you’ve caught them in a lie, a sort of profligate baring of the beating heart. It’s apt to get you bloody and leave you feeling rather less satisfied than if you just allowed the lie to envelop you. But it’s sort of enjoyable in its transparency if nothing else. It looks pretentious, but in fact it’s evidence of an astonishing lack of pretension. And that’s the overarching sensation of London Collections: Men this season. Both the venue and the collections are bare and honest and transparent in a disarming way. One rather expects there to be more to it, but in a sense one feels calmed and sotly elated that there isn’t. Sleeves Magazine