menuYesterday marked the end of this year’s Paris Men’s Fashion Week for January. A lot of great fashions were foisted upon the catwalk. Just kidding, everything was pretty much unwearable. Here’s a sampling of why Oscar Wilde said that “fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Raf Simons decided that this year’s trend in men’s fashion would be Fat Sherlock Holmes:
Imagine if a wizard shrunk Benedict Cumberbatch but his clothes stayed the same size!
A photo posted by Vitrina De Moda Masculina (@myoldsportblog) on Jan 25, 2016 at 2:28pm PST
Here Stark magazine finds a man inspired by The Force Awakens to revisit the style so popular among young Rebels on the ice planet Hoth:
Berluti takes the fashion sense of David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor and marries it with the warmth of wearing a cardigan made of scarves. But without enough sock coverage to truly keep the modern male warm in a changing climate:
A photo posted by FIFI Fashionisto (@fififashionisto) on Jan 25, 2016 at 11:35am PST
They say the 90s are back, and Hermes agrees, bringing Bullet Bill back in tote bag form, the irascible villain of many a Mario Brothers game:
Dries Van Noten, the noted… nope, this is completely inscrutable:
A photo posted by @shunnagashima on Jan 25, 2016 at 8:07am PST
Dior knows that any conventions about the fit of menswear go right out the window when the fabric used is Fruit Rollups:
Berluti knows that there’s more than one way to dress like The Joker:
A photo posted by James Presents… (@jamespresents) on Jan 25, 2016 at 7:37am PST
They also offer a hybrid of the Joker and Riddler costumes:
Gosha Rubchinskiy also brought the 90s back—specifically 1990 Soviet Russia:
A photo posted by カネダ ケンシ (@kenshi_kaneda) on Jan 24, 2016 at 7:05pm PST
Well put, Oscar! That reminds us, the next Men’s Fashion Week in Paris is in six months.
