Written by Alice Cicolini, commissioned and published by Thames and Hudson. The book explores in more detail the themes that arose from the exhibition “21st Century Dandy.”
The British man and the designers who design for him stepped into the international style limelight when journalists proclaimed that the “noughties” were a decade of British tailoring. With the shifting sartorial identity of the contemporary Englishman, the dandy was a figure that many designers alighted upon to express the nature of modern masculinity.
The book, a fashion handbook and treasure trove of fashion ideas tailored to the well-dressed man. Six chapters offer six takes on the twenty-first century dandy. Each thematic section features a specially commissioned sixteen-tape fashion shoot by a rising star of fashion photography and eight pages of bespoke inspiration, instruction, interviews and insight. A reference section has a tailor’s glossary and contact information. Whether your taste runs to the classic or the modern, the English dandy sets the pattern for the twenty-first century male.