Laurence robes up to commune with Lord Byron, unwitting author of Romantic dress and famously painted as an Albanian nobleman.

Romanticism and nationalism in 19th-century Scotland, where King George IV's endorsement meant tartan and the kilt became cult.

Why did Victorian men dress ready for a funeral? Black embodied power and serious purpose yet democratised fashion for ever.

Not always for camouflage, 19th-century uniforms were vibrant and flattering. Fashion's military love affair continues today.

The interior designer examines how sportswear has been men's fashion's single biggest influence since the French Revolution.

The interior designer examines the impact of the silver screen on men's fashion, celebrating the stars that have redefined it.

The interior designer rock 'n' rolls back to the 1950s, when Teddy Boys aped and subverted the styles of their social superiors.

Malcolm McLaren joins Lawrence to assess the insoluble partnership between pop music and fashion through the decades.

Big hair, big shoulders, big salaries and big hangovers. Laurence wonders whether fashion reflected 1980s greedy consumerism.

With women's hemlines acting as a social and economic barometer, Laurence asks what men's fashion says about the state we are in.

Tracing male peacockery through the ages - how clothes symbolised power, philosophy, taste, sexuality and personal expression.

The radiant clothing at the court of King Charles I, sumptuously painted by Anthony Van Dyck, but showing tensions of the age.

An old sartorial order seemed restored, but French fashions prompted a style that would herald the three-piece suit.

The impact of an English dandy. The interior designer visits Bath, the hub of the 18th-century men's clothing revolution.

Tastemaker to the Regency, Beau Brummell was British fashion's most influential man. The interior designer surveys his impact.