Paris, the last fashion week and the main course of Menswear Fall Winter 2014 collections. Let's take a look at the brands and designers have shown...
DIOR HOMME
Denim, pinstripe, polka dots and omnipresent fur are playing the game in a Dior Homme show where streetwear is combined with sartorial pieces. The layering will be hardly in the next fall winter 2014 combining denim, cotton, wool and fur.
DRIES VAN NOTEN
No one can release a colorful collection with prints so elegant as Dries Van Noten. The belgian designer presents an eclectic collection that explained was influenced by "street style, ethnic, punk, new wave, new romantics, hippies, R&B, all these things but mixed with some Renascences". With so many points of inspiration, the designer has been able to blend perfectly all the ingredients in a dinamic collection maintaining his brand's fundamental artisanal codes.
GIVENCHY
The basketball plays the starring role in the next collection of Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy who continues impressive for good. The german architectural movement Bauhaus is the link to basketball shown in the rounded zip details and graphic prints simulating the court lines. One more time, thanks to the italian designer, the brand became one of the most desired brands for the contemporary men.
LANVIN
I love menswear Lanvin collections, actually I think is one of the brands that adapt the current trends in an impeccable elegant way catching the zeitgeist so well. For the next Fall/Winter we can see a color explosion in a sporty way with referrals to surrealism and Memphis collective. SAINT LAURENT
The most expected show and that generate more controversy. Hedi don't try to create new concepts in his collections for his self complacency. He knows perfectly what sells and he exploits it ad nauseum . Because don't be silly, rock is old fashioned (in fashion terms) but it still selling. I don't know the opinion of fashion gurus about this collection but I don't care because if I was rich I would buy the whole collection. THOM BROWNE
Thanks to a spectacular stage, Thom Browne shows have becoming the place to be and be seen. But let us not stop at the surface. The gray tones predominate in a collection dominated by black, white and grey creating exquisite brocades in a masculine tailoring close to perfection. ISSEY MIYAKE
Issey Miyake is one of these brands that it's there but no one usually taken into account. But it seems that for the next season have wanted to get noticed with a collection full of modern prints with a cyber touch. Inspired by nature, Yusuke Takanashi takes a journey through Iceland introducing elements like water, earth and fire in the Fall Winter 14 collection.
KENZO
The America Norwest was the starring point for Carol Lim and Humberto Leon in they FW 2014 Kenzo collection. More austere than usual, the color palette dominated by black, browns, forest green and navy with concessions to citrus tones. Gone are the emblems that defined the past Kenzo collections as the tiger, clouds, etc. Will it still have the same acceptance among the cool kids?
KRISVANASSCHE
Kris Van Assche looks to be in a light hearted mood for next season. His fall/winter 2014 collection moved away from his more sober urban style he is know for and into something a bit more fun loving and approachable. And it was all the better for it. Pixel print is melted with vest, volume sweaters, suits and coats with grey, mustard yellow and burgundy colors.
LOUIS VUITTON
Atacama dessert is the inspiration for the next Fall winter 2014 Louis Vuitton Collection as it showed the art oil melted instalation in the catwalk simulating the dessert's aerial view. With this inspiration close to the ethnic, Kim Jones gave it an urban twist with a color palette dominated by cream, cobalt blue, beig, black and gray.
RAF SIMONS
Raf Simons collections are always irreverent in the menswear fashion schedule and for its Fall Winter 14 the designer remains true to his eclectic and modern style. Patchwork, tie-dye and galaxy prints form part of a collection 100% Simons. VALENTINO
Valentino is the definition of luxury and it's demonstrate in its menswear Fall Winter 2014 collection in which it's a pleasure to watch the patchwork prints in fur for the long coats. A refined sartorial style with casual touches as the Valentino reinterpretation of Stan Smith sneakers mark a fashion show in which Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri demonstrate that couture is not only a woman business.