LCF MA26 | MA Fashion Design Technology (Menswear)

At the catwalk, garments and materials explore intimacy, male identity, and self-expression, revealing moments of softness, vulnerability, and tension within traditionally masculine forms.

Huakan Zhu’s use of reverse folding reflects a lover’s embrace, while Ziying Liang approaches longing from a male perspective, deconstructing feminine body curves and translating them onto the male form. Across these collections, softness and vulnerability emerge through masculine structures. Luoxiao Zheng’s casual menswear encourages men to release pressure, reconnect with themselves, and embrace a more fulfilling way of life.

In the showroom, Chenge Sun examines how male body language, posture, and skirted forms influence masculine expression. Yufei Wu also focuses on the male body, interpreting the abdomen as a symbolic centre of masculinity and investigating the body as a site of emotion and identity.

Jasmine Muraoka explores military uniforms as symbols of hierarchy, authority, and masculinity, highlighting how they enforce uniformity while erasing individual identity.

Structure, both physical and imagined, plays a central role across the collection. At the catwalk, Quian Tan takes inspiration from the suspended structure of Ronchamp Chapel, translating spatial and spiritual experiences into clothing through contrasting materials and forms.

Jiyuan Fan's ‘Human Hanger' explores how structure shapes the body and identity in menswear. Starting from the everyday hanger, the project transforms it into a visible system of support, where the skeleton and garment merge as one.

In the showroom, Tiancheng Meng's Haptic Bloom originates from the small yet emotionally charged gesture of picking at a hangnail, translating its tension, offset rhythms, and tactile sensitivity into a structural language for clothing.

Across the collections, designers make space to explore light, motion, and colour, using transparency, contrast, and movement to animate the body and challenge how menswear is traditionally perceived in stillness and in motion.

The showroom features Jessica Bola's contrasts of motion and stillness, reimagining the body in perpetual movement through colour-blocked garments that suggest transition and flow.

Tian Qui addresses overconsumption through exaggerated silhouettes and bold colour contrasts, visualising excess with voluminous forms compressed beneath tailored jackets and translucent knits.

An invite-only catwalk, presenting collections from LCF’s Menswear and Womenswear, will take place at The Chancery Rosewood as part of the official London Fashion Week schedule, - watch live on Instagram, Thursday 19 February at 6pm.