Ann Demeulemeester's sweet dreams of the candy man - Menswear SS14

There's something so delightfully nostalgic about a simple stripe. In graphic black and white it might recall childhood characters such as Beetlejuice, whereas narrow seersucker stripes bring back days at the sea and sandwiches covered in sand. It's this romanticisation of the past that Ann Demeulemeester excels at, turning past references into present-day poetry. Her beautiful bohemian boys for SS14 were bedecked in snatches of an undefined past: velvet neckties from Oscar Wilde's opium dens, straw hats from Impressionist gardens, white stompy boots from the clubs of the New Romantics. And it was all drawn together seamlessly into an elegant modern collection. Seersucker for day and salmon-coloured silks for night were both endowed with the same fronds of black flock flowers, evening coats trailed with long leather laces and necks peeped through half-undone velvet bows. Wilde would be proud. #FollowTheBuyers