Every season I try to redefine each fashion week by its strongest characteristics. The fashion weeks personalities rarely change but perhaps my perspective on them continues to evolve. Looking at Paris this season I would say that Paris’s personality is “Classic Remixed”. All silhouettes have a similar structural starting point but what makes the featured designer’s collections stand out is how each pulls, crops and tweaks it to express a very different aesthetic, within the variables of “Classic Remixed”. Read the full story

It has taken me awhile to get through all the menswear SS 2010 collections. I like to take my time and soak it all in for the seasons recap, which is coming up very soon. And its collections like this one from Miharayasuhiro that make the process a long one for me. Once I see a collection with such a tight and concise story I get stuck. It makes it really hard for me to move onto other collections, so I frankly I just dont for a few days. The collection remains open on my computer while I soak it all in. It is better this way because if I were to jump to the next collection immediately after seeing Miharayasuhiro’s SS 2010, chances are they would get far less love from me than they deserve.

In many ways the Miharayasuhiro’s SS 2010 Collection is a kind of menswear perfection for me. It portrays a kind of masculine urban nomad which is such a relevant contemporary persona. The layering seen throughout the entire collection is brilliantly balanced with color and texture ~ an absolute A+ on the styling!

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