Cottweiler

Cottweiler A/W 2019 London Fashion Week Men’s

Mood board: Finally, designers are reacting against the rampant puritanism of all things pop. With Art School’s walking-home-from-the-club strut, Mowalola’s naked clothes and Charles Jeffrey’s playful parades, the message is one fuelled by positivity and passion and the body. The...

Cottweiler S/S 2019 London Fashion Week Men’s

Mood board: the mirrored cardboard press release on the benches at the Cottweiler show — one evoking a folded foil sun reflector — hinted at the sense of sun-drenched spiritualism behind the London-based brand’s S/S 2019 collection. Designers Ben Cottrell and Matthew...

London Fashion Week A/W 2018 menswear editor’s picks

Cottweiler S/S 2018

Mood board: Last season Ben Cottrell and Matthew Dainty presented their inaugural collaboration with Reebok at Pitti Uomo. For S/S 2018, their clothes were shown against a backdrop of imposing pastel-coloured motorhomes, installed in the centre of a large warehouse space. The...

Wool’s worth: Gabriela Hearst and Cottweiler awarded the 2017 Woolmark Prize

Yesterday evening, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris saw the Uruguay-born, New York-based womenswear designer Gabriela Hearst, and Ben Cottrell and Matthew Dainty of London menswear label Cottweiler announced as recipients of the 2017 Woolmark Prize. Famed for propelling then...

Skateboarders and celebrations set the scene at Pitti Uomo

Like the striking starling murmurations that regularly dominate the city’s sky, so did the menswear fashion industry again descend upon Florence for Pitti Immagine Uomo, populating the streets around Fortezza da Basso with sprezzatura-practicing professionals. The 91st edition of the...