Mcqueen's menswear was so good this season - so much better than SS05. Now it's taken a bit of a Dries Van Noten direction with a lot of embroidery applique on the jackets but the overall look is much different - very patrician Italian but with a definite air of Il Duce about it as well. It has a kind of terrible elegance that is edgy on account of the dangerous connotations it wields. I like the knitwear especially too. Oh and the fur. And the tartan capes with oriental flowers embroidered on them really make an impact.

Well a sort of funny thing happend in Plymouth last week,three guys twenty and above decided to ram raid Plymouths up market clothing store Dingles, breaking down a door near the C.K under wear section.
I gues the guys where taken shortssssss

I don't know what's funnier, the name 'Dingles' or the white jeans and Striped sailor t-shirt comment.

women get all the coolest clothes... which is why i wear them
but there's hope with hedi

Not all of them try "Fake London" thats cool cloths as far as standing out in the crowd goes !!!!

Make a piece of ladywear, then modify it into the shape of a man.

haha womens' is already in the shape of a man, straight off the runway
one has to make it into the shape of a woman first

women can get away with almost anything, men are still held back buy the ideals of the great masculine renounciation...but it's hold on men is slowly coming undone...it's an exciting time.

I agree with Ben Morris re Helmut Lang (although I've never done any fashion work). I'm curious to see what HL ends up doing but perhaps this will become a private affair. That would be a shame for the obvious reason that he is quite an original thinker. Part of my personal interest in his work lies in his collaborations with artists. There is of course a lot of power in a 'name' but the relaunch will not be 'true' HL. Apparently the new designers have been looking through the archives . . .
I wonder if one can compare these new arrangements or take-overs or whatever one wants to call them and the designs produced with posthumous projects?