A recent graduate of the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, where he graduated with first class honours and specialised in menswear and fashion writing, Blair Archibald presents his first namesake independent collection for fall/winter 2015. “I was brought up in s small town so didn’t even know you could study fashion until I left high school,” explains Mr Archibald, who has relocated to Melbourne since his graduation. “Once I was immersed in study, the prospect of working in fashion was instinctive.”

The design philosophy of Blair Archibald is built around the concept of slow fashion, “renegotiating the conventions of menswear and focusing on the concept of investing in engineered design,” he says. “The first collection was about establishing really simple blocks and having a balance of contemporary pieces with strong staples that sit outside a particular season.” Shop pieces from the new Blair Archibald collection online now lasix renal scan interpretation.