THE MAN DRESS RETURNS TO THE RUNWAY
British fashion designer Jonathan Anderson has presented a gender-bending menswear collection featuring dresses, frills and ruffles at London Fashion Week.
The J.W. Anderson fall/winter 2013 ready-to-wear collection, titled Mathematics of Love, saw the up-and-coming trendsetter using traditionally female elements and shapes on his male models.
The rather frumpy designs included frilly shorts that looked like skirts, sleeveless mini-dresses and knee-high boots.
“It’s about doing something new, working with architecture and proportion. For me, it’s about mastering a silhouette. It’s like I can’t get it out of my head,” Anderson told Women’s Wear Daily.
The New York Times’ Eric Wilson commented that “it takes some nerve to ask a man to wear what appeared to be a tube top made of camel wool crepe, but this is exactly what is great about Mr. Anderson…”
The men in skirts trend is really nothing new in the fashion world.
Designers and labels such as Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Givenchy and Comme des Garcons have over the years included items such as skirts in their menswear.
The trend, however, has rarely made it off the runway and onto the streets, other than among a fashion-forward few.
Watch a video of Anderson’s collection below.
How pathetic!
How did the models manage not to laugh?
most are still trousers
Some of the black numbers are cool.
I doubt if we’ll see any men wearing dresses on the streets anytime soon. Its a pity, it would be awesome if society could move beyond this gender role concept that says men shouldn’t wear skirts.
Sigh. Maybe in a 100 years.
The global apparel biz is how large? Very large. But it’s only 75% as big as it could be, because men are stuck with wearing one of two basic styles__the trouser which by the way, came from horseback riding, which we seldom rely on these days!
you forgote about schottland… theye wear skirts