Sleeves Magazine Men's Fashion Week Special Men's Fashion Week June 2016 | 页面 167

But at least it’s large. There’s room to
manoeuvre despite a full slate of design
talent showing off their wares, and what
feels like a reasonable attendance of
buyers and journalists wandering
knowingly and looking overbearingly
effortless. Christopher Brogden of CSB
London is in attendance, his usual affable
self in front of his bold, confident
collection. He particularly recommends
Agi & Sam as designers to watch out for
in this season’s show, but is equally
complimentary about many of the new
lines on display. Walking around the
designer showroom there’s certainly no
obvious weak puppies. Let right and
centre one is faced with designs that
know exactly what they’re doing and why
they’re doing it. Strong silhouettes and
sharp deliberate colour choices. The
collections fill the venue with the warmth
it lacks on its own.

And the view from the rear of the building
is actually quite edifying. Leafy green
branches frame a sun-bleached bank of
the river, and the sky stretches blue and
unburdened up from the gorgeous South
Bank beyond. This area given over to
NewGen talent and, incidentally, the bar,
is a stark contrast to the bleak unfinished
showrooms which dominate the rest of
the event. It is strangely enough this area,
with its huge leather sofas, and its potted
plants, which feels other-worldly and
distinct, not the countercultural edginess
the rest of the venue seems to be going
for. The bare concrete and chilly gloom is
oddly more comfortable, more at home,
less di