John Alexander Skelton Spring 2025 Menswear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.
John Alexander Skelton ’s latest lookbook begins and ends with pictures in which you can make out the clothes, but only just: a pair of wanderers are seen walking down a muddy gravel pathway, the silhouettes of their fitted jackets and billowing trousers standing in contrast to the murky green of rolling hills in the Peak District. In the final image, we see the same duo wandering back along the same path slowly enveloped by mist.
It was a suitably cinematic framing device for the collection, which took its cues from the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers, an early 20th-century walking club in the north of England that Skelton was drawn to as much for their passionate belief in the restorative properties of the great outdoors as he was for their socialist politics. More specifically, Skelton honed in on a figure called Bert Ward, a Labour party politician and activist who created illustrated guidebooks for walkers.
Of course, as a designer, Skelton was equally fascinated by the elegant outfits worn by many of the ramblers back in the day: before the development of proper walking gear, most would take their strolls in tailoring and boots. “I was thinking about ramblers today, and the clothes are so awful it’s sort of depressing—all this neon, and so much gear that’s unnecessary for what they’re doing,” he added.
Skelton’s skill as a designer lies in his ability to spin a yarn—in both senses of the term. With the brilliant origin for the collection lying in sportswear, he explored a handful of new techniques that married the old-world spirit of his clothes with a romantic sense of the outdoors.
From this maelstrom of cultural references—the medieval, the religious, the Gothic—and sartorial references too—tailoring, historic sportswear, forgotten corners of British craftsmanship—Skelton whizzed up something strangely chic and utterly desirable. It would be enough to make you want to put on your walking boots and hit the great outdoors immediately—even if your destination is a gloomy English morning on Kinder Scout.
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