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Portfolio, Autumn 2020 ©2020 HANDCUT STUDIO PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL, DO NOT DISTRIBUTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HANDCUT STUDIO CREATIVE
Hackett London
S P R I N G / S U M M E R 2 0 2 0 – T H E ROA DT R I P I S S U E
Hackett SS20 brand magazine. Editorial
concepting, production, commissioning and
copy-editing from flat plan to final proofs.
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HANDCUT STUDIO CREATIVE Edward Sexton Edward Sexton AW20 campaign shoot. Concepting, casting, production and styling. 6
HANDCUT STUDIO CREATIVE
Thom Sweeney
Thom Sweeney SS20 look book.
Production, art direction and styling.
SPRING / SUMMER 2020
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HANDCUT STUDIO EDITORIAL How To Spend It Reporting on Paris’s cult menswear scene. Financial Times How To Spend It men’s style special. October 2019. 16
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The three
LFWM labels
setting the self-expression for many people – I
The Jackal
wouldn’t choose to wander about in pink
style agenda jackets or wide-leg trousers if I didn’t
subscribe to that view – but even by my
Your shorts may only just own weird and wonderful standards,
be out of storage, but the wearing suits without clothes beneath
designers at the impending them is a confounding exercise. Of course,
London Fashion Week Men’s the catwalks are there to put forward an
(8 to 10 June) are already aspirational, glamorised vision for men’s
prepping to show us what to style and I understand that innovating is
wear next season. Here are important, but I fear brands forget the most
our ones to watch… T R E N D WATC H important thing about fashion: men like you
and I are meant to be able to wear it.
Put your When are we all supposed to wear our
shirtless suits, pray tell? To a shareholder
shirt on,
Oliver Spencer meeting perhaps? Or maybe as the best man
Oliver Spencer’s at your brother’s wedding? ‘It’s so lovely to
collections are notable see you all here on this special day. I hope
man
not only because they you won’t mind but I decided it’d be best
look good (and they
do look very good), but
to simplify my outfit and catch some rays
Style column for The Jackal magazine. because they also do
good. Over the past by
outside the vestry – very à la mode, this
bare-chested lark.’
year, the designer has
A LEKS CV ETKOV IC The weird thing is, with so many brands
Critiquing the catwalk trend towards made the switch to
using all natural dyes toting this trend, by writing this I feel like
and natural fabrics. the fashion industry’s equivalent of Winston
wearing suits without shirts. June 2019. What’s more, all his
collection is made
Smith, thinking the unthinkable under Big
Brother’s judgmental gaze. Yet I don’t buy
in Europe with an
impressive 40 per cent t’s tricky to know where to begin the idea that something is fashionable just
made here in the UK. I with this one. Perhaps the best thing because a designer brand does it. Menswear
to do is to report the barefaced is meant to be flattering, wearable and
Nicholas Daley facts. So, here goes nothing… appropriate to the environment you find
Leicestershire-born At the Spring/Summer ’19 catwalks yourself in. I struggle to think of any
Nicholas Daley is a earlier this year, where the big designer context where I’d be comfortable presenting
relative newcomer to brands showcased the summer collections myself to the world bare-chested beneath a
the LFWM schedule,
but is already one
now coming into store, one styling decision double-breasted jacket.
of its highlights. His had me spluttering into my industry- In fact, I’d go so far as to say that this
slouchy-yet-tailored standard iced oat milk mocha with hazelnut trend is a prime example of the men’s
streetwear takes cues
syrup more than any other. fashion industry divorcing itself from
from British, African
and Caribbean For some unfathomable reason, a reality. For the best part of 120 years, men
influences (Daley plethora of influential designer brands – have worn the suit because it’s reliable,
is of Jamaican and I’m looking at you Dior, Roberto Cavalli, masculine, and elegant. Wandering down
Scottish descent), and
Acne, Dries Van Noten – chose to send Bond Street with your nipples peeping out
incorporates his love
of music – especially their models down the runway wearing suits definitely isn’t any of those things, even in
the London jazz scene. without anything beneath them. No shirts, 30-degree heat.
no knitwear, no T-shirts, not even a string So, if you’d like to lighten up your
Kent & Curwen vest. Nothing, nada, niente. tailoring this summer, heed my advice and
Though fronted and Now, I appreciate fashion design is a wear your suit with a T-shirt. Choose a
funded by David creative art, and a form of personal nude-coloured one if you wish. But don’t
Beckham, the power for heaven’s sake bare your chest. You live in
behind the throne
at Kent & Curwen
the real world, not on a catwalk, and in the
is creative director real world, humans wear clothes.
Daniel Kearns. Under That said, there’s one good thing about
his design steer, the
the shirtless suit trend; by this logic I’ll be
label now makes When are we supposed able to get away with walking the dog sans
sportswear for the
sartorially minded, to wear our shirtless suits, trousers before too long. I’m off to give it
with remixed rugby
shirts and cricket
pray tell? To a shareholder a try – it’s all the rage in Paris, you know…
jumpers a core part of meeting? As best man at Aleks Cvetkovic is The Jackal’s style
the collections, along
with relaxed tailoring. your brother’s wedding? columnist and a strong proponent of shirts
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020 thejackal.com Illustration by PETER JAMES FIELDHANDCUT STUDIO EDITORIAL How To Spend It Reporting on the evolution of the overshirt from mid-century military uniform to contemporary tailored jacket. Financial Times How To Spend It. April 2020. 19
HANDCUT STUDIO EDITORIAL Robb Report Style feature exploring the impact of fashion tech on bespoke tailoring. Robb Report US, September 2019. 21
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