How do we explain this fashion? what year would this manifest?
Outlandish men's outfits at London Fashion Week caused a stir,But will such clothes ever challenge the hegemony of the suit, shirt and tie?
If this is going to be about whether men are interested in the sort of fashion we've been seeing at London Fashion Week, then this is going to be like shooting fish in a barrel. (Actually, "shooting fish in a barrel" has been the theme of the McQueen show, with models dressed in wooden barrels full of carp, while other models dressed as crabs take potshots at them with sniper rifles.) There has been much outraged coverage in the likes of the Daily Mail of those pictures of an outfit whose main feature appears to be an exploded crate stapled to the model's face. Of course, it's not about fashion, Nobody would give a toss about Men's Fashion Week, there would be no articles or outraged Mail pieces, no one would be talking about the designers, if the shows featured what all well-dressed men are wearing – grey suits, with a smart tie and a nice shirt. And this doesn't just apply to men's fashion – no one has ever been seen wearing a single catwalk creation after a fashion show in the whole history of the world, ever. If the question is whether men are interested in fashion in general, then I'd have to say – if by fashion you mean "do most men wear grey suits with a smart tie and a nice shirt?" – then perhaps they are |
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