Meanwhile, fall 2010 menswear collections, I have very mixed feelings about you.
You have mixed feelings? I'm pretty much on the universal, "ick!"
Slide 5 (velvet jacket and scarf with tote bag), I appreciate androgyny as much, if not more than the next woman, but I'm not a fan of the whole short cigarette pants with loafers thing on men. It always looks likes someone incompetent did their hemming to me. And trying to create a more female silhouette with the cut and half-buttoning of the jacket just looks like bad thrift store shopping to me. Actually (and thoroughly atypically for me,) I might have appreciated slide 3 (camo-esque print coat with double row of buttons) more if the the model was more masculine looking. I think the both the pattern and the cut would be better suited to broader shoulders. Slide 6 left me thinking "Stanfields? Really? I mean I get macho and Henley tops have their appeal, but long underwear? Really?
The less said about the luge suits and stocking caps of Slides 8 and 9 the better, but the leiderhosen-esque shorts and knee socks of Slide 8 induced complete bafflement even before the furry hats were tossed in.
Then there was Slide 4 with the "okay, that's sort of disturbing". I realise a lot of uniforms in WWII, including the RAF had that belted jacket look going, but the cut and colour sent me straight to the SS.
I was unimpressed with slide 7. In the prison/barracks-like atmosphere of the show, the guy wearing concentration camp style stripes was thoroughly creepy and distasteful. Having checked out the rest of the collection, all I can say is Thom Browne needs to get over his shorts and nazi fixations. Especially when used in combination.
On the bright side the suits in slide 1 were pretty great and I, for one, was delighted as hell to see the return of men's hat:-)
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Date: 2010-01-21 09:12 pm (UTC)You have mixed feelings? I'm pretty much on the universal, "ick!"
Slide 5 (velvet jacket and scarf with tote bag), I appreciate androgyny as much, if not more than the next woman, but I'm not a fan of the whole short cigarette pants with loafers thing on men. It always looks likes someone incompetent did their hemming to me. And trying to create a more female silhouette with the cut and half-buttoning of the jacket just looks like bad thrift store shopping to me. Actually (and thoroughly atypically for me,) I might have appreciated slide 3 (camo-esque print coat with double row of buttons) more if the the model was more masculine looking. I think the both the pattern and the cut would be better suited to broader shoulders. Slide 6 left me thinking "Stanfields? Really? I mean I get macho and Henley tops have their appeal, but long underwear? Really?
The less said about the luge suits and stocking caps of Slides 8 and 9 the better, but the leiderhosen-esque shorts and knee socks of Slide 8 induced complete bafflement even before the furry hats were tossed in.
Then there was Slide 4 with the "okay, that's sort of disturbing". I realise a lot of uniforms in WWII, including the RAF had that belted jacket look going, but the cut and colour sent me straight to the SS.
I was unimpressed with slide 7. In the prison/barracks-like atmosphere of the show, the guy wearing concentration camp style stripes was thoroughly creepy and distasteful. Having checked out the rest of the collection, all I can say is Thom Browne needs to get over his shorts and nazi fixations. Especially when used in combination.
On the bright side the suits in slide 1 were pretty great and I, for one, was delighted as hell to see the return of men's hat:-)
/fahion rant