Men’s fashion trends this winter: Anglo-Saxon is in!
Classic comebacks with an Anglo-Saxon flair is the buzz word for the 2008 fall-winter fashion season. Gents, you can get your good old classics back out of the attic and shake the moth balls out of them. They are back in fashion!
Playing with contrasting fabrics and specially fitted cuts
Bowler hats for Jean-Paul Gauthier, the Renaissance spirit at Dior’s, Scottish kilts for “Comme des Garçons” or large plaid coats at Yohji Yamamoto’s set the tone. These Scottish designs play with proportions, offering sober-looking cuts that are reworked in a range of twilight colours.
Bold experimentations with contrasting fabrics are the real originality of this season. The top stars like the scratched wool, the gloss finish nylon can be found, for instance, with Louis Vuitton’s suits with “bank notes” – patterned fabrics, and green dollar colour jackets. You just have to be daring enough!
Volume or electric colour touches
At YSL, creative experimentations are fully underway on deaf tonalities enhanced with electric blue, acid green or lemon-yellow brightness. But the same for Romain Kremer with imitation python parkas. For the coldest souls, pure and sober coats are also the stars at YSL, especially over trousers which are slightly too short, known today as “feu de plancher” trousers. A whole era for nostalgic ones.
For tall or slender persons, no worry either, volumes are at the forefront at Sonia Rykiel.
Scrambled wool coats, long knitwear parkas, will give our thirty or forty year old persons a new freedom of movement and expression.
There is something for our diehard athletes, or our classical men, too. Back packs, corduroy trousers, Tyrolean design cardigans and sleeveless down jackets, are still in-style. Enough to whet our appetite for this season too!
Octobre 2008
