Menswear Spring/Summer 2012 - Thursday June 23

Day Five - Paris

Jean Paul Gaultier

Gaultier took to the Paris catwalk in the designer’s runway theatre, which also doubled as a sales showroom. The audience were seated at tables with open laptops surrounded by clothing racks where they watched Gaultier’s team dress the models. Hawaiian prints, tailored jackets and fluid silk pants featured throughout JP’s collection. The designer cheekily paired leather biker jackets and sporty jackets with tailored pants. Australian model Andrej Pejic also featured on JPGs runway. This low-key spectacle ended with BEYOND terrific sailor sweaters.

Louis Vuitton

Kim Jones showed his first Louis Vuitton collection as menswear creative director on June 23 in a refined preppiness style. Blue and red checked T-shirts with shorts and the cream knits and with rolled scarfs perfectly represented a vintage style. Jones’ tailoring showcased his affinity for classics-with-a-twist and was reminiscent of his childhood in Africa. The collection was handsome and the perfect debut for the designer whose inspiration was Peter Beard; the famed adventurer from the Sixties and Seventies. The show began with clean college looks; the safari style then emerged before the finale peaked with bold checks and midnight-blue dinner suits. “I think about the travelling man constantly,” Jones said during a preview for WWD, as he showed off a suede sweatshirt and silk windbreakers a.k.a scarfs. He’s also got Vuitton’s “hyper-luxury” clientele looked after: with varsity jackets with waxed alligator and 24-karat gold thread finishing.

As always the label's front row was suitably starry - Lily Allen and her new husband Sam Cooper were both spotted, as were Emily Browning and Max Irons.

 

 

 Viktor & Rolf

Viktor & Rolf yellow dolphin motif jumpers had the Parisian fashionistas reaching for their credit cards. Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have made leisurewear BEYOND CHIC. High-waist trousers and hip-length jackets came in blue, mustard and burnt orange. The duo’s sense of fun was obvious in their dolphin motif printed on sweatshirts and short-sleeved shirts, and in evening jackets with shimmering, beaded lapels. The collection was a modern translation of the 1970s and truly BEYOND adorable but not sure if it is entirely all wearable!

 

Parisian legends Jean Paul Gaultier and Victor & Rolf did not disapoint...

Un bacione...

Menswear Spring/Summer 2012 - Wednesday June 23

Day Four - Paris

Mugler

Paris Men's Fashion Week got underway on Wednesday (June 23) opening with Mugler. The “new” Mugler man was fierce, as well as colourful on the catwalk. The show began with warrior models dressed in gold armour, sequinned tops and super-super-tight leather shorts. Then Mugler men became sporty with cycling short and tops in neon green, orange and purple. Creative director Nicola Formichetti referenced gay porn into his second men’s collection for the label. The gold armour and visors suggested classical Gods, while still being practical with details such as zips on suits. Stonewashed denim was reminiscent of the bad taste of the 1980s and tight neon-lycra brought us back to the 1990s. The lycra was even a tad star-warsesque as the models looked like soilders.

Not to worry there is more to come from Paris on day five and six.

Au revoir!!