The Spring/Summer 2012 collection by Conquistador (a label that The Style Examiner featured previously) is a range of strong pieces inspired by images of traditional masculinity as appropriated by religious, sports or military groups such as monks, surfers and military officials. The collection includes long and short sleeved tops made...
Fashion brand Versace has unveiled the campaign to promote its Spring/Summer 2015 menswear collection. Photographed in New York by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and styled by David Bradshaw under direction of Giovanni Bianco, the advertising campaign features models Filip Hrivnak, Alessio Pozzi and Miroslav Chech....
Following the successful implementation of core business strategies in 2014 that included launching a new fragrance, relaunching heritage products, and upgrading its mobile platform, British luxury fashion and accessories brand Burberry is closing the year with a 14% underlying growth revenue and an overall outperformance across its digital channels. However,...
Canada-born and London-based fashion designer Todd Lynn has unveiled images of his menswear collection for Spring/Summer 2015, marking the end of a three-year creative silence on his ambition to develop a men’s fashion line. Claiming inspiration from the fantastical science-fiction undertones of the 2013 film Under the Skin (directed by...
Accessories label Eastpak has partnered with the House of Courrèges on a new collection of bags (with highly accomplished results, The Style Examiner might add). Unveiled today but scheduled to become available in stores worldwide from November 2014, the collection includes travel bags, totes, shoulder bags and backpacks made from...
Singer and fashion-aficionado will.i.am has added another venture to his entrepreneur career by creating ill.i, a new eyewear brand comprising sunglasses and optical styles for men and women. Developed in partnership with designer and long-term friend George Gorrow, the brand is described by will.i.am as being “about dedication and passion”...
Luxury fashion house Valentino has recently opened its largest ever retail space. Located at 693 Fifth Avenue in New York City, the new 20,000 square foot flagship store was designed by British architect David Chipperfield, who has worked on other projects for the Roman fashion brand. The store houses Valentino’s...
Sudan-born and London-based fashion designer Omer Asim has shared his Autumn/Winter 2014/15 womenswear collection with The Style Examiner, and we could not but feel impressed with his budding talent and wonder why it has not garnered more recognition than what it has secured thus far. A true polymath, Asim graduated...
Brazil’s history has it that on 27 January 1881, and after two decades of witnessing the cruelty derived from the pervading slave trade while working in the port of Fortaleza, Francisco José do Nascimento gathered a few of his fellow workers and refused to ferry black slaves imprisoned on the...
It’s a sunny and warm morning in early April 2014 when the international press van that carries me arrives at a wide and leafy street in the exclusive and affluent neighbourhood of Jardim Europa in São Paulo. As we park, I gather my thoughts and put away my briefing papers...