\n\tIn this hyper-digital age, it can feel like we\u2019re living in two different worlds. Online, texts are painstakingly crafted, images reshaped, and some AI-generated content completely preternatural. Offline, things are awkward. Your hair\u2019s got flyaways and that one pimple just won\u2019t go away. Yikes!<\/p>\n
\n\tThat\u2019s what made John Alexander Skelton\u2019s fall 2026 show feel particularly relevant. Referencing Celtic culture and folklore, he was also drawn to the idea of two worlds, albeit through his striking Dickensian lens.<\/p>\n
\n\tSet in the crumbling and chilly Asylum Chapel \u2013 unfortunately, insulation wasn\u2019t quite that common in 1862 \u2013 the audience sat in concentric circles, the outermost ring featuring mysterious statues under draped cloth.<\/p>\n
\n\tThen, the lights dimmed, and out strode two fellows wearing fabulously sinister masks inspired by Cernunnos, the horned Celtic god of the wild and the underworld.<\/p>\n
\n\tOne banged a traditional frame drum as the other recited poetry. Mischievously prowling among the audience, the poet \u2013 portraying a deity that takes people into another world \u2013 playfully prodded and poked some attendees.\u00a0(Regretfully, this writer wasn\u2019t among the chosen few, so no report on fashion from the other realm.)<\/p>\n
\n\tThen, the actor would dart between the crowd, whipping off cloth covers with a whoosh! to reveal scarecrows dressed in looks from the collection. These straw effigies were inspired by Celtic festival Samhain, a time when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest, and photographer Colin Garrett\u2019s \u201cScarecrows.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always been fascinated by scarecrows,\u201d Skelton explained. \u201cThere\u2019s a weird duality with them where they can feel kitsch and also quite evil.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThat duality translates to Skelton\u2019s clothes. They\u2019re otherworldly in their fantastical feel, literally, with cutaway jackets, trousers, and shirts in bronze, cream, and black jacquard, and metaphorically, with their period flair. But nubby knitwear made with undyed wools and cooly rumpled linens, and roughly hewn finishes ground everything in reality.<\/p>\n
\n\tIf, like me, you aren\u2019t whisked off to the Otherworld, good news \u2013 Skelton\u2019s clothes are in this one. And here to stay, if the mob of people trying to squeeze into the over-capacity church have anything to say about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this hyper-digital age, it can feel like we\u2019re living in two different worlds. Online, texts are painstakingly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,130738,22405,129913],"class_list":["post-243391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-john-alexander-skelton","tag-london-fashion-week","tag-mens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}