The millennium seems to have become a time where previous decades of fashion are being reinvented, found to be strutting down the catwalks, amongst the glossy pages of style magazines and of course dr

Whilst many of us would acknowledge that men today have more fashion awareness and the majority tend to take more pride in their appearance than they did a few decades ago.

1. Gather your tribe members. Team effort is essential to begin the getting ready ritual transformation.

LONDON fashion week seemed more a returners week as British designers Luella and Mathew Williamson came back home with their new collections.

Athwart a Shellac-polished Mahogany library table (probably William IVth) rests an open suitcase. The case, stiff, beige & mottled, displays precise rows of inconsistently coloured socks. On top, three black & white tailors’ measures have been strewn, and the sock display continues into two open draws. Alongside, (for the tailor to sit) is a twee plush-green velvet armchair. In fact, all the setting additionally needs to resemble the interior of the Paul Smith flagship is some artsy black & white print wallpaper and shirts with patterned collar-linings. Oh wait, it does. Sharp tailoring in 70’s hues, caddish leather winkle-pickers and man-cardies reek of Paul Smith so much even the shoes are lined with the (imitation) Paul Smith stripe. Topman going for an image (lifting) overhaul perchance?!