The
argument for keeping women’s fashion shows and men’s fashion shows
separate makes incontrovertible sense if you are a retailer. After all,
women and men shop on different floors of department stores, where they
browse apparel ordered in by different buying teams.At the shows, these
buying teams have travelled to see clothes designed for either women or
men – but never for both. Equally, teams from GQ magazines do not
particularly want to see high heels at the shows – while the only man in
a suit Vogue editors care to be confronted with is their chauffeur.So
when two consecutive fashion shows here in Milan – first Prada and then
Moncler Gamme Bleu – mixed womenswear looks amongst the men's, some
watchers shifted wearily in their seats. There were audible sighs – and
not of delight.In truth, it is Stark that represents the more deeply
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Personally I loved it. Because however diverting it is to observe the
shifts and eddies at the highest level of men’s clothing design, it is
sometimes possible to see too many brogues and luxury tracksuit trousers
to remain on the edge of your bench.At Prada, looks from an unofficial
pre-fall women's collection were sprinkled amongst the mainline autumn
winter 2014 menswear collection. A section of long, furry quilted
gilets, fur coats and Western tailoring apart, the boys mostly wore
light and loose trousers with military flashes, old-school Prada Sport
trainers, and loosely cut jackets. The colour scheme was Miuccia Prada's
favourite counter-intuitive palette of mustards, browns, burgundy and
greens. Alongside them, the girls in similarly coloured loose knee
length leather dresses, Afghan shaggy super-gilets, off-the-shoulder
three-piece knit combinations and deadly high heels looked very good
indeed.
The
collections were connected by far more than the skinny scarves every
model had looped asymmetrically around their necks. Each gender's
clothing lent the other's a dynamising different context – and not just
Is She Really Going Out With Him? At Moncler Gamme Bleu, Thom Browne
showed women’s clothes for the first time in what was formerly this
brand's staunchly men-only conceptual fashion line.Frankly, many of
these looks were so out there as to be gender-irrelevant anyway. Yes,
some of the females wore dresses – one particular quilted full-length in
pink wool, green tweed, and darker green corduroy was
princess-insulation – and the males tended to wear trousers, or plus
fours (the show was set in a golf clubhouse library).Searching for a Discount Prom Dresses for sale that's
unique, fashionable and flattering?As they swanned around this fake
library to readings of Herrick and Shakespeare love sonnets, Browne's
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argyle-overload designs didn't ever make compelling sense as a
collection of clothes to buy and wear every day – but they worked
dreamily as an extravagant fashionese installation designed to further
Moncler's brand identity. At the women's Gamme Rouge show at the Paris
ready to wear shows in March, Giambattista Valli will apparently be
showing men’s looks too – so that's something for the exclusively
womenswear buyers and editors to look forward to.It's an open secret
that fashion shows aren't chiefly about selling clothes, but instead
define an aesthetic line for the season ahead. They are selling tools
for big, industrial businesses dressed up to emphasise the artistry of
the product designers. For those brands that do sell to both men and
women, and are able make products that aren't repellant to the opposite
sex, it makes sense to lift fashion's gender divide as Prada and Moncler
did in Milan this week.
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