At MR PORTER, we specialise in menswear. From office-friendly tailoring and holiday-ready essentials to razor-sharp eveningwear and classic off-duty staples. And we like to keep an eye on the personal styles of men who have shaped and continue to influence the menswear landscape. From icons such as Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Miles Davis to modern style-setters like Jacob Elordi, Tyler, the Creator and Timothée Chalamet. But, with International Women’s Day on the horizon, we wanted to turn our attention instead to the women who have also spearheaded sartorial trends or straight-up made menswear their modus operandi.

Few words have been as thoroughly abused as “bespoke”. First used in the 18th century to describe custom-made clothes – originally corsets, funnily enough – the term is the past participle of bespeak, meaning something that had been spoken for. In tailoring shops along Savile Row and elsewhere, it referred to a length of fabric reserved for a single client, marked in chalk and destined to become a suit, a sport coat, or a pair of trousers shaped to their body.

Men have a problem with their friends. Rather, their friendships, specifically. Barely a week goes by without a report telling us that 49 per cent of us have never opened up about our emotions with a friend. Or that two-thirds of young men think that nobody really knows them. Or that 32 per cent of us don’t have a best friend at all. Imagine that: all these stats and no one to share them with.

“One of the things I’ll always love about making videos is that 60 seconds is all it takes to change your life,” says Munya Chawawa. “As much as I want to go out and write film scripts, there’s something cool about knowing your magnum opus could be less than a minute away.” For anyone in the UK who has spent much of the 2020s glued to their smartphone – most of us, then – the 33-year-old comedian, actor and presenter and his magnificent eyebrows will be a familiar sight.

At MR PORTER, we specialise in menswear. From office-friendly tailoring and holiday-ready essentials to razor-sharp eveningwear and classic off-duty staples. And we like to keep an eye on the personal styles of men who have shaped and continue to influence the menswear landscape. From icons such as Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Miles Davis to modern style-setters like Jacob Elordi, Tyler, the Creator and Timothée Chalamet. But, with International Women’s Day on the horizon, we wanted to turn our attention instead to the women who have also spearheaded sartorial trends or straight-up made menswear their modus operandi.

Few words have been as thoroughly abused as “bespoke”. First used in the 18th century to describe custom-made clothes – originally corsets, funnily enough – the term is the past participle of bespeak, meaning something that had been spoken for. In tailoring shops along Savile Row and elsewhere, it referred to a length of fabric reserved for a single client, marked in chalk and destined to become a suit, a sport coat, or a pair of trousers shaped to their body.