Suiting up, suiting down
Paris in calmer days
An eventual dozing off at the switch of gender sabotage is suspected for the present notable exception to the rule at Louis Vuitton for Men. True, the structural and mechanical details remain predictably shabby, still no threat to the durability of Hermès. But someone of long espionage in that direction has made off at last with the open glaring secret of dress-ing this complexion, in fawn and beige and white and, by ancient association, navy blue. This flimsy will go the way of all manufactured detritus; the colours, meanwhile, defy effacement. We think of the intrepid model, lending himself to irony.
For LV Ryan Alexander
For Hermès and Panic Harry Goodwins
For Mabile Francisco Lachowski
An eventual dozing off at the switch of gender sabotage is suspected for the present notable exception to the rule at Louis Vuitton for Men. True, the structural and mechanical details remain predictably shabby, still no threat to the durability of Hermès. But someone of long espionage in that direction has made off at last with the open glaring secret of dress-ing this complexion, in fawn and beige and white and, by ancient association, navy blue. This flimsy will go the way of all manufactured detritus; the colours, meanwhile, defy effacement. We think of the intrepid model, lending himself to irony.
Nice swimsuit. For guys it still is all about the hair-fashion is too challenging an arena for them. pgt
ReplyDeleteThe central horror of the likelihood you spell out would be, of course, the lingering vitality of the impression that "the guy" IS the fashion, to which Wilde, himself, despite all his protestations to the contrary, contributed mightily. This would then account for the rising importance of that limited number of variables subject to fashionable intervention, the hair being one of the more conspicuous, ordinarily.
ReplyDeleteOf course, you realise, you have just airily laid down a blistering gauntlet to a very sizable sector of your own readership, with this observation. I love it when the irreverent lark of the place can take such authoritative wing - not that I'm competent to be associated with it. But you're right, the entire posting was obviously built around the ineradicably unblinkable gorgeousness of Ryan's (LV) haircut. Sorry the habit of concealment's lifelong strain is so visible, that confession can be elicited by such insouciant seduction. Try a duller thought next time, if you please.
But, I add for women it is to the death (christians and lions) they are inundated with the worst choices- and inevitably that is what the choose. the"guys" always come off better in any formal setting in black tie. pgt
ReplyDeleteDecay in the refuge of black tie is all about us, as you know, and is even encouraged by some well-intended people in one's followership. And this is odd, in so many ways and for so many reasons (odder, still). I'll never understand why a man would reject an opportunity for his expression to be sought by other than visible distinctions. "Black tie" is delightful, liberating.
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