Fall 2010 | Costume National Homme

Wrap­ping up the first day of Milan Fash­ion Week, it looks like the color black is here to stay. The lat­est from Cos­tume National Homme seems to find solace in the gloomy color. Seek­ing to under­cut the seri­ous­ness of all suit­ing, the label turns to semi-​​relaxed sil­hou­ettes, draw­string trousers and knit com­po­nents. The results include a play­ful exe­cu­tion of knit hybrids, but ulti­mately the range’s sub­tle details tend to be hin­dered by the absence of color, which would have eased the sever­ity of this season’s black­out effect.

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10 Men | Red Venetian by Mark Pillai

Being in the final leg of the fall sea­son, 10 Men achieves per­fect tim­ing with their early look at spring 2010. With the main play­ers in toll, includ­ing every­one from Raf Simons to Givenchy, 10 Men fash­ion edi­tor Hec­tor Cas­tro teams up once more with pho­tog­ra­pher Mark Pil­lai for a dynamic edi­to­r­ial that includes a large tal­ented cast: Char­lie France, Dominique Holling­ton, Jacob Coupe, O’Shea, Rob Moore, Ryan Hol­las, Sam Rigby, Shawn Sut­ton, Sid Ellis­don, Tommy B, Nico­las and Robert Grunenberg.

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Contributing Editor | Black Hole Sun

Ryan Hol­las, Reuben Esser and Max Bar­reau come together for an edi­to­r­ial enti­tled “Black Hole Sun”. Pho­tographed by Joachim Mueller Ruch­holtz and styled by Anders Sølvsten Thom­sen, the trio make for an angst-​​ridden bunch out­fit­ted in the lat­est knits from Kim Choon-​​Wilkins, Ioan­nis Dim­itrousis, Asger Juel Larsen and oth­ers. View the full edi­to­r­ial here.