Menswear Spring 09 Paris and Milan: Designers Play with Proportions Messaging Plays the Thing.
Bottega Veneta Spring 09……………………………………………Dries VanNoten Spring 09
Many of the silhouettes for Menswear Spring 09 in Europe had that Great Gatsby era style to it, but more modern. One designer, Dries VanNoten, said, “I want him to be dapper, not dandy.” Mission accomplished.
Prada Spring 09…………………..Junya Watanabe Spring 09
At the same time, designers played with proportions in the length of the pant, the size of the jacket, additional volume mostly with the pants but also with some jackets, socks are an important accessory and up to the knees (as well as argyle), and then this year designers took a page out of women’s collections and gussied up the shoes to match the jacket, the shirt, or the sweater through all manner of technique.
John Galliano Spring 09
The sum total of it all for me was that men will, though serious as always, be letting their fun side show this spring.
Moschino Spring 09
I don’t know if this means designers are planning for the recession to be over or for men to be needing some other form of self expression because let’s face it, the world-wide economic situation will have taken its mighty toll by Spring 09. Perhaps it’s just that men will finally let their hair down, and wear their pants up, or something like that.
Whatever the case may be, it’s cool, man, real cool.
Bottega Veneta Spring 09…………Versace Spring 09
Denis Semachev Spring 09 
all images Style.com except Denis Semachev, International Herald Tribute.
