Category: Fashion

Film by Mr Jacopo Maria Cinti, Associate Art Director, MR PORTER Words by Mr Dan Rookwood, US Editor, MR PORTER Sneaker obsessives often reveal themselves by going to extreme lengths to keep their ultra-rare sneakers completely spotless. This even includes never ever wearing them. These guys are quicker on the draw with a baby wipe...

It’s hard to imagine that until now, skin coloured underwear for brown skinned girls has not been a thing – with all the shades and tones of melanin-rich goddesses walking this African continent. This is why this brand is for US. Brown skinned girls – beautiful in every shade. “GUGU” simply means ”Your object of...

The Oscar-winning musician on why 2016 has been a year to remember When Mr John Legend and his model wife Ms Chrissy Teigen welcomed their baby daughter in April this year, one of the gifts they received was from President Obama. “It was a little onesie,” says Mr Legend. “And the President signed a card for her....

The Ultimate How-To Guide For Smart Packing Smart For Your Next Trip Everyone loves to travel, but if you’re like us, you don’t care much for the packing part. In fact, you probably avoid it till the night before, after you’ve had a few pints at the pub post-work (you’re not clocking in tomorrow…), when your decision making...

You and I are everything. From this day onwards you are me and I am you. As one we are rewriting the narrative of the continent. Today, we own ourselves, and we do it for ourselves. In different directions we are moving to penetrate every resource and structure built to stop us. But we are...

I hate those instructional “WHAT TO WEAR RIGHT NOW” or “10 TRENDS FOR SUMMER” articles (always written in screaming block letters, with exclamations). Wear whatever the hell you like; whatever you’re comfortable in. But it turns out that a lot of people do wear what they like and what they are comfortable in, and look...

South African Menswear Week SS16/17 gets underway today. More than 55 of the top designers on the continent will descend upon Cape Town for four days of presentations, rail showrooms and catwalk shows at the Cape Town Stadium. There’s a lot going on at the biannual fashion event, which touts itself as the only stand-alone...

In most fashionyy settings (you know the ones: the God-awful “avant garde” fashion show; the gallery private viewing before the exhibition opens to the public; the launch party for some or other product/magazine/line that we would have forgotten about a week later), it is commonplace, if not de rigueur, for men to carry bags in...

What some of the best menswear designers in the world have conjured up for Spring/Summer 2017 It has become one of the highlight congregations of the twice yearly fashion season: London Collections: Men has just wrapped and after four jam-packed days of sometimes inspirational fashion and other times failed experiments in creativity, we feature some...

So Karston and I were chatting and we both decided to start getting more artistic and creative for photoshoots. It’s way to easy get caught up in the normal routine of taking “blogger” photos that I think we start loosing some of our creativity. So with that being said we decided to shoot at the...