Advertising
Supported by
fashion review
Looking with interest at the latest trends in Paris, our reviewer asks the eternal question: “Could I do it?
By Guy Trebay
Reporting from Paris
Am I that guy? This is annoying and inescapable if you stick to the menswear circuit, as I did recently: attending some 50 exhibitions or presentations presented in settings as disparate as school auditoriums, gilded ballrooms, and structural sites where subtleties like chimney protection are, at best, Theoretical.
Trekking through Milan and Paris, I joined the throng of those who make a profession of tracking the latest doings of designers who often share little in common besides an urge to make clothes for masculine-presenting humans. Like them, I took pleasure in off time scrolling through quick-take reels on social media, all those posts by witty boobirds who toggle between stanning their favorite designers and celebrities and mercilessly throwing them under a bus. (And truth, Blakely Thornton, Kim Kardashian’s Balenciaga era probably was just high-priced “Power Rangers” cosplay.)
Still, it seemed vital to keep in mind how menswear remains a tough economic driver. It was also worth remembering how, even in the most internal crisis of the Covid-19 crisis, where on the planet he probably spent dressed in a variant of criminal dress. , the global menswear market ran with such a boil that it is estimated that in 2022. amounted to $571 billion, according to analysts at Market Research Future. By some measures, this expansion will increase over the next decade to $988 billion.
From the first, however, some other doubt arises, which is a corollary to the question whether one is of that kind. If not, do I need it?
As a critic, I think about this a lot and seldom more concentratedly than during the recent men’s wear season, which concluded on Sunday in Paris after a series of superlative showings. The best by far came from Rick Owens, who continued his ingenious explorations of dystopian futures and evolving body morphology with things like inflatable bladder boots, columnar down coats, straitjacket cloaks in swathing volumes (and, as always, plenty of commercial knits to wear for the end times.)
We are retrieving the content of the article.
Please allow javascript in your browser settings.
Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.
Thank you for your patience as we determine access.
Already a subscriber? Sign in.
Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Advertising