Favorite Five: Etro Fall 2013 Menswear
“The wheel of creativity: everything revolves and transforms, revealing the consequence of the previous step. The sounds and signs of the world are compressed, the extremes draw near to each other, intermingling. The Autumn/Winter 2013 collection, barbarous and furious, is the result of an alchemical process through which GengisKean tells the intimate feeling that lies at the base of our strictest contemporaneity: we’re living an important time of transition, aware of belonging to history. Contradictory elements and techniques ally to construct a world of primordial density, of mythological and legendary evocations that become weightless and fluid. A summary of sensations, an existential Mandala. The most traditional of loren ends up resembling a kimono, the soft materials and gauze give a roundness and softness that si shared by cultures as far apart so those of the Himalayas and Ireland. The broad lapels of coats – to be inhabited – are rounded, egg, shaped, and the trousers are slim for fast running, to keep up with the sense of impermanence that gives us stability. The origin: synthesis, sedimentation, and synchronicity that the dandy and the prince have in common with the Sherpa, which includes ease and sophistication, uniqueness together with universality.
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Neo-primitivist with braiding and jersey knits that could pass as corduroy.
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Yes, there's a lot going on here (furs, hides, horse images, tiger print, quilted pants)—yet, it does't seem as if it's trying all that hard...even though it should.
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This look seems to flout the some old myth we've heard that guys shouldn't wear dangling jewelry over brightly colored turtlenecks. Well done!
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Bright, sunshiny jacquard. Say good morning to the night. -
A most abstract Mandala as realized by an eccentric dinner turn late night party jacket.
This look seems to flout the some old myth we've heard that guys shouldn't wear dangling jewelry over brightly colored turtlenecks. Well done! 
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