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10 Menswear Looks That’ll Have You Tripping Balls

Jessica Lapidos — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:53:26 +0000

Fashion is a trip. But some fashion is trippier than others. It’s those distinct looks in a collection that make your eyes pop a little wider as they expand your consciousness to accept grander philosophies of the universe. This season was rife with designers experimenting with wild menswear, and we’re glad to see the rougher sex getting freaky with the Avant Garde.

The silhouette of a mountain troll on the palette of a dandy with a Victorian harking makes for one time and bodily twisted trip at

Versace plays to the color hungry eyes of the psychedelically tripping.

Serious double take! Moschino and Jean Paul Gaultier both dabbled in brick laying for Fall 2012.

I have a vision, let me show you mine... It's Derelict! Seemingly made from garbage bags with the pull tab handles, this jacket is playing mind games.

'Tis a trick of the eye as a different cartoon suit is painted overtop the three dimensional suit.

Stars, Stripes and Skirts for the men at

Cascading hardware makes for trippy visuals.

The wonderfully weird Thom Browne keeps the athletes on their toes for

It looks like a glowing ball of light that I want to move with to the music.

The expert surrealist Rei Kawakubo mashes at least four colors onto this jacket, and has you wondering if your actually looking at Joan Jett in prep school.

Designer Daily: Walter Van Beirendonck

Jessica Lapidos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:25:44 +0000

If you’ve ever been inside of Walter Van Bierendonck‘s Paris studio, you may be more equipped to make sense of his Fall 2012 collection titled “Lust Never Sleeps”. If you haven’t stood witness to his collection of banners with anime versions of himself riding on rainbows, mushrooms and male nether-regions, nor his future final resting grounds of a cartoon sarcophagus and his ode to all the boys, drugs and fashion a.k.a. things he loves, this trompe-l’oeil culture clashing runway journey may blow your mind.

When I was a dresser at his Fall 2009 show, his inspiration was the Duk Duk, the symbol of a secret society in Papua New Guinea. Now focused on warriors from the same region and high priests from the Caribbean, he smashed their traditional masks with that of Jason and Western sex-fetishes. Aside from ethnic play, the juxtaposition of suits with smaller suits cartoonishly painted on proceeded by coats that actually unbutton to become smaller versions of themselves takes the collection from a cultural conundrum to a wardrobe solution.

Brief history of time: Walter Van Beirendonck was one of the Antwerp 6, a group of designers that graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium in the 80′s. Also members of this game-changing Avant Garde pack were Ann Demeulemeester and Dries Van Noten. Take note.

TRENDSPARK: Ugly Male Models

Kirby Marzec — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:24:14 +0000

**WARNING** If you have an intolerance for shallow observations or you recently modeled in Men’s Spring 2010 Fashion Week, don’t read this.

The end of June and beginning of July are of importance to me for one reason: men’s fashion week. Yeah,the tailored suits and spring apparel are nice, but what I really look forward to is the hours I spend cooing over drop dead gorgeous models. The chiseled jaw. The supple lips. The piercing eyes. I’m like a kid in a candy-store!

But these past two weeks have been less than enjoyable for my model addiction. Is it just me, or are designers and bookers seriously skimping on the man candy this season? What once was a Cole, Ash, Luke and Taylor dominated field is now pillaged with some of world’s less fortunate looking creatures. Is there some sort of repulsive man trend I’m missing the boat on here?

Costume National

Bernhard Willhelm

Walter Van Beirendonck

Maison Martin Margiela

Blaak Homme

Proceed in clawing your eyes out.

Images courtesy of NY Mag.

You Weren’t Invited. Neither Were We.

Kirby Marzec — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:11:38 +0000

Bill. Bill. Bill. Postcard from grandma. Bill. Parking Ticket. Bill. Bill. Invitation to Dior Homme Fall 2009. Aside from the bills and the parking ticket (sorry Rebecca), this would be the ideal contents of any mailbox. The perfect clothes, accessories, hair, makeup, lights, sound and runway are all necessary for a killer show. But if you don’t send guest innovative invitations, you’re audience is going to be empty! These are just some of the nifty invitations to this years F/W 2009 men’s fashion shows!

GALLERY: You Weren’t Invited. Neither Were We.

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