THE 'MASCULINE FEMININE' IN THE fall 17 MAN SHOWS
It's not cocotte, it's not gamine, it's not Annie Hall or Marlene Dietrich, it's all together.
This article on Another Magazine makes the case of Annie Hall self-styling on point. Her eyewear are considered an accessory to show her nerdiness.
It's that blending of the tailoring elements notoriously belonging to a man's fashion and re-interpreting them with feminine attributes.
In the book I have dedictaed a whole chapter to the art of "borrow from the boys". When to present the collections, see now buy now and incorporating girls and boys in the show has become a practice.
I have collected the most inspiring looks. We don't all have the same opinions, but if you are reading we share similar taste and style. Juts remember the word "inspiring" because some of them bay be seemingly outrageous, but dissecting all the elements are there for us to grasp. Style is not copying, it's interpreting as your day unfolds.
"It's Oscar Wilde, it's military, it's dandy, it's aristocratic, it's romantic" Alexandre McQueen's Sarah Burton pays a tribute to Oscar Wilde, in case you hadn't gotten the hint.
Thom Browne was a show of sartorial uniform dissected, the glorification of Harrys Tweed in all 1,200 yard, as per WWD.
Miuccia wants us all to be "more human, more simple, more real". Nerdy is good.
The future is female ...