"Hood By Air’s invitation was a report card, its after-party invitation a notice of detention. Following on from his show during Paris menswear in June, Shayne Oliver still had childhood on his mind, but he’d graduated from toddler to student — specifically the ways in which cash-strapped school-kids in his native Caribbean had to ingeniously extend the life of their uniforms. [...] there is an HBA formula now. As Oliver himself pointed out backstage, HBA has successfully defined its own world where it has transcended questions about identity or gender or sexuality."

T. Blanks, The Business Of Fashion - Review and Images here

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