Fashion East's New Radicals: London's Creative Uprising

Burberry. Alexander McQueen. Coach. Dunhill. Gieves & Hawkes. Hardy Amies. Kilgour. This season's list of menswear brands that are absent from London for one reason (going co-ed) or another (creative relocation, wobbly financials, a sudden quietude) is lengthy. But physics dictates that nature abhors a vacuum. And even on day two of London it is becoming clear that the space left by some of the city's biggest commercial brands--and many of its famous old tailoring houses--is being claimed with r...