Last month, the Victoria & Albert Museum announced its big autumn exhibition: Hollywood Costume, a comprehensive survey of the greatest outfits ever worn on the big screen. Naturally, Dorothy's red shoes and Audrey's Breakfast at Tiffany outfits hogged the first fashion headlines, but menswear aficionados arguably have even more to get excited about, because the exhibition's distinguished curator is Deborah Nadoolman Landis. For Nadoolman Landis is not only - like Aitor Throup, Christopher Raeburn  - a graduate of London's Royal Academy of Arts and a visiting fellow at the city's University of Arts, a two-time director of Hollywood's Costume Guild, and the other half of the great director John Landis. As the designer of Michael Jackson's leather 'Thriller' outfit and Harrison Ford's earthy Indiana Jones gear (both costumes are among the hundreds in the show), she was also one of the most formative design influence on the style sensibility of many a boychild of the 1980s. vam.ac.uk

Mr "Marc" Hare had to date been known for his dressy smart shoes for dudes. But now the self-proclaimed "sneaker head" brings us his first proper "dress sneaker": the Vonnegut. He knows the turf better than anybody: before 2009, when he founded his own label, Hare worked as a consultant for brands from Nike to Dr. Martens. Like many New Balance/Cortez-loving chaps of a certain age, Hare has looked back to the post-Prefontaine era of the running shoe, for him the most romantic time in trainer history and design. But while the first Nike trainers were made with liquid rubber and a domestic waffle iron, this pure breed sneaker is made of Italian calfskin by Tuscan craftsmen.
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Malcolm Mafara

Before Christopher Bailey there was Chris Bailey, and before Topman ruled the high street, there was Jigsaw Menswear. For many blokes now approaching their prime/40s, the name alone will cause a frisson of nostalgic excitement. Once upon a time, circa 1995, Jigsaw was the only "designer"-style British men's brand on the high street, with edgy designs and fancy fabrications. Almost 10 years after the men's line originally came to an end, it has now relaunched, with an all-new, if less overtly fashion-forward, collection of men's classics in stores and online this month. jigsaw-online.com

Malcolm Mafara