Roen Menswear Spring 2009: The Casual Rock Star
Roen Menswear Spring 2009 MILAN, June 27, 2008/ FW/ — Miami in the 1970’s was in it’s prime and a magnet to the rich and famous. It was a place of freedom, experimentation and relaxation all at the same time. For Spring Summer 2009 Roen’s inspiration comes from this spirit in Miami where fashion and style are taken on with ease and a relaxed attitude. Clothes fit...
Romain Kremer Menswear Spring 2009: Football Parallel Universe
Romain Kremer Menswear Spring 2009 PARIS, Jun 27, 2008 / FW/ — If a predominantly gay football team were to be created on another planet in outer space, they would need to contract Kremer to create the uniforms. His use of space-age foam filled nylon in neons and nudes created a scene from a future day and age. Also, interestingly, every model wore bright white,...
Blaak Homme Menswear Spring 2009: “Tudor Ugly”
Blaak Homme Spring 2009 PARIS, Jun 27, 2008 / FW/ — Considered edgy by fashionistas, Blaak Homme presented a collection that make you think. Intellectual dressing had never been very popular with the mainstream fashion followers, but with the changing views of fashion, perhaps, its time has come. Cristofoli PR pulled off an edgy, entertaining show for Blaak Homme that...
Giuliano Fujiwara Menswear Spring 2009: Zero Gravity
Giuliano Fujiwara Menswear Spring 2009 MILAN, Jun 27, 2008/ FW/ — Using technology to reference nature, Giuliano Fujiwara, came up with an innovating and compelling collection for Spring Summer 2009. As time passes and the ‘new cool’ changes, so do the people along with it. Technology has slowly worked its way into heart of fashion as have the techies behind it....
Kentroy Yearwood Intoxica Spring 2009: Does Fashion Friendly Equate to Eco-Friendly?
Kentroy Yearwood PARIS, Jun 27, 2008 / FW/ — In a small room filled with 5-kilo bundles of old t-shirts, Kentroy Yearwood’s presentation of his all-natural, low-consumption line, “Intoxica,” struck an interesting chord in the fashion world. This presentation represented 1% of 1 day’s worth of trash produced by a country about the size of Belgium. It was quite...
Marni Menswear Spring 2009: The New Look
Marni Menswear Spring 2009 MILAN, Jun 26, 2008 / FW/ — If you’re like me and have been waiting for the new menswear silhouette, head over to Marni’s because Consuelo Castiglioni just proposed new forms and shapes that are more than just promising. In fact, they have a chance to become the ‘New Look’ for men. Alternating between slim and voluminous shapes, Marni...
Marithé + Francois Girbaud Menswear Spring 2009: Skateboarders Grow Up Too
Girbaud Menswear Spring 2009 MILAN, Jun 26, 2008 / FW/ — The runway as a political soapbox is not new. Husband and wife design team Marithé and Francois Girbaud definitely had used it several times to make a statement on an issue. And Spring 2009 is one of those as they announced, ‘No more seasons,’ as in fashion season, ‘No more honey, more bees,’ and ‘No...
Paris Menswear Spring 2009: Veronique Branquinho, Henrik Vibskov in the Garage
Veronique Branquinho Menswear Spring 2009 PARIS, Jun 26, 2008 / FW/ — Man’s demesne, ‘The Garage.’ Perhaps its because the automobile had always been a fascination for men. It can even be because the human male is actually very interested in anything mechanical. Veronique Branquinho and Henrik Vibskov ‘visited’ the man’s garage and were inspired. Veronique...
Number (N)ine Menswsear Spring 2009: Entrenched in Rock & Roll
Number (N)ine Menswear Spring 2009 PARIS, Jun 26, 2008 / FW/ — Takahiro Miyashitashi, designing for his own label Number (N)ine made his mark among the fashion crowd with his rock & roll inspired clothes with Kurt Cobain as his favorite muse. Miyashitashi’s original cult following has expanded towards a wider audience, some of them actually in the mainstream...
Gaultier2 Spring 2009: Pirates of the the Caribbean
Gaultier2 Spring 2009 PARIS, Jun 26, 2008 / FW/ — We have been getting used to seeing women on the Jean Paul Gaultier’s menswear shows, and this season, the French designer brought them back not to underscore femininity but as part and parcel of the presentation. And while one of the strongest trends this season are the ‘female influences to men’s clothing’,...
Dirk Bikkembergs Menswear Spring 2009: Ahead of the Game
Dirk Bikkembergs Menswear Spring 2009 MILAN, Jun 25, 2008 / FW/ — While other designers try to find the perfect balance of the male image, Dirk Bikkembergs has been preaching for the past five years that virility and masculinity are desirable traits for men. Since the rise of women’s liberation during the 1960s, the male ego had been usurped as men are ‘taught’...
