Bowie

If I had to choose one person as a poster boy for men's style it would be David Bowie.

There are very few men that have had so much influence on men's fashion over the last 50 years; Johnny Rotten, Tom Ford, Helmut Lang, Jean Paul Gaultier, Gianni Versace, Bruce Weber, Ralph Lauren, Mick Jagger, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Giorgio Armani, Yohji Yamamoto, Edward Sexton to name but a few but Bowie transcended and transfixed them all.

From Glam Rock to Punk to the Eighties, Nineties and beyond, in Lurex or Linen, he was an incredible inspiration.

“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won't be boring”

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