John Galliano 2011/2012 Menswear

The well-known Christion Dior's designer, John Galliano a British fantasy-outfits-maker this year without surprising me, his fall/winter menswear was quite good as usual.. but honestly, Im not really satisfied, dont judge, but my eyes are soo hungry of fashion especially the menswear... Then his inspiration was ballet + russian cultures with splash of colours and a bit of sparkles...

Although, ballet is enjoying a cultural moment, high at the Ballets Russes exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, low in the campy horrifics of Black Swan...

And in the white tights, guess who?? My baby boy LACHOWSKI! ;)

Tipping his cap to the trend, John Galliano ambitiously settled on primus ballerinus Rudolf Nureyev, a figure who effortlessly bridged both extremes. And this time, the ever-changing drama of Mother Russia provided the backdrop. So the show opened with a harried horde of Russian emigrés in great big coats, tufty shearling, and military jackets (more tips of the cap to flavors of the moment)....

Then Nureyev defected to the West and started wearing tightly tailored pantsuits and caps as a curious analogue, all the while working himself into a lather at the barre... That gave Galliano the opportunity to parade sweat-soaked workout wear on Simon Nessman, though the model was surely grateful to be wrapped in a chunky puffa...

The final passage of eveningwear garbed the dancer for glittering, embroidery-crusted nights on the town in the kind of Cossack finery that would once have been catnip to Galliano. Why, then, did it feel less than exuberant???

In fact, the whole show had a flat, low-budget feel. That wasn't even induced by something as banal as commerce compromising creativity... More likely, it was a simple matter of Nureyev himself not being such perfect fodder for Galliano after all, too real perhaps to sustain the kind of blinding fashion fantasia the man has unleashed on us in the past when's he looked to the Ballets Russes for inspiration....

Thats my thought, you can compare this show with his last season show.. trust me!

Im sorry, I couldn't find a good quality video in youtube...

Lovettes, Khairuz.

Versace 2011/2012 Menswear

Who doesn't love her? righttt, non :)

With her latest men's show, Donatella Versace returned to Via Gesù 12, the spiritual and actual home of the label in the center of Milan. The move was very much in keeping with her refocus on Versace's iconic elements, an approach that is crystal-clear in her womenswear. That same focus has yet to manifest itself in the collection for men, however.

The initial stern monochromatics—the leathers, the white shirts and skinny black ties, the pointy boots—definitely had the angular Teutonic edge of a particular moment in early-eighties Berlin. So did the gray-toned jacquards that cropped up later in the show. But the stated theme of the collection was in fact 3-D, which is about as 2011 as you can get.

It manifested itself to a degree in the optical knits or the surfaces that were raised on knits and leathers by quilting. The 3-D leathers reminded Donatella of Versace menswear from another era, which was apt, given the setting. And, seeing as we were pondering the past, the cobalt blue double-breasted coat also sparked a memory of a time when the Versace man bestrode the catwalk like a fashion colossus. The blue-steeled modern counterpart on today's runway was a pallid simulacrum....

I feel now every designers were went sahara desert touring the Camel and dive in deep ocean cobalt blue and drank the red wine and burgundy... have you noticed that??

Yeah, my fav 8 outfits, love the colours :)

Lovettes, Khairuz.

John Richmond 2011/2012 Menswear

Okay, lets fly with me to London :)

As I said, Im getting love fur-bulous now... And I spotted on John Richmond 2011/2012 collection and 1 word, fabulous.. I told you before that I want to be suprised, now Ive to admit, soo far Ive suprised with few mens collection especially my fav season Fall/Winter.....

English-born designer John Richmond has, like America's own John Varvatos, often designed with music in mind. But his latest collection, inspired in part by the MANCHESTER POST-PUNK SCENE OF THE EARLY EIGHTIES, felt a step off the beat...Hahaa

Austerity versus luxury for "the modern machine age," the notes had it...

That amounted to baggy, boot-cut pants, shiny suiting, and cutout leathers, many accessorized with sparkling rhinestones, velvet, and in line with a curious number of designers this week-dense patches of fur. There was more of a nineties brashness than an eighties edge, but either way, there wasn't much that was fresh!! a fair bit was downright tacky.

Joy Division and Iggy Pop ("Nightclubbing") banged on the soundtrack, but the best things here were the ones that felt farthest from the club... The handful of hooded, fur-lined parkas, for instance—the sort that are quickly beginning to emerge as a Fall '11 staple...

The pictos, my favs!

Lovettes, Khairuz.

Z Zegna 2011/2012 Menswear

Im not really sure about Z Zegna, but I found the collection is very mesmerizing especially the colours and the construction that is just well-made and ofcourse the modernizing on the detail of the clothings... His name is Alessandro Sartori..

The backdrop a black and white film that tracked vertiginously through an abandoned industrial site, established a film-noir tone that made a perfect complement to Alessandro Sartori's new collection for Z Zegna...

In their boxy jackets and pleated, tapered pants, his men might have peopled Raymond Chandler's mean streets. Couple that dark, filmic style with Zegna's futuristic fabric technology and you've got… ermmm… future noir?

"Like watching characters of the past in a modern setting," said Sartori. He pointed to the "icon" of the collection, a leather jacket in which the skin had been digitally needle-punched to a cashmere flannel lining. With no need for glue or stitching, the process loaned a seamless, almost neoprene feel to leather that will now never grow old. It also guaranteed a silhouette with a superhero bulk, narrow at the waist, wide at the shoulders. Everything the modern night crawler would crave.

One remarkable thing about Zegna's tech is its subtlety. Sartori was excited by the new three-piece camel suit, two jackets layered over a pair of pants. The top jacket was waterproofed, though you'd only know it when the hard rain fell.

Ultimately, though, all the fabric research in the world won't get you anywhere if you're not making clothes that a man would want to wear, which is where Sartori comes in. His designs have a strong, broad-shouldered, masculine line in a straightforward palette of gray, loden, and camel. The seduction was in the details as I said, the way a blouson sat on the waist, the pleat of a pant, the plaid, the perfectly judged proportions. And those futuristic leathers… the essence of Gattaca or Caprica on a catwalk...

Its beautifully made and I lovee all his jackets! and ofcourse, these are my favourites..

Lovettes, Khairuz.

Alexander McQueen 2011/2011 Menswear

Lets start with our late most creative-of-fantasy designer, Alexander McQ.. I know we all sadly suprised with his death, but the company doesnt stop to impress their loyal fans by McQ's apprentice designers, like Sarah Burton.

See enough shows in a season and you'll likely tire of the same old faces trooping up and down the catwalks with ticktock regularity. They're walking coat hangers. But every so often, there's a show where the model casting adds so much to the mood of the collection that you're left wondering why more designers don't step outside the box of the mannequins of the moment.

It happened with Alexander McQueen tonight. The face of each model was such a complement to the clothes he was wearing that the English quintessence of the collection was strikingly reinforced. For all anyone knew, the guys might have been from Kentucky or Kazakhstan, but dressed in McQueen, they were rough trade for Oscar Wilde, or military cadets from the Napoleonic Wars.

The genetic blessing of bone structure and Guido Palau's spic-and-span public schoolboy hair had something to do with the effect, but ultimately, it was Sarah Burton's clothes that enabled the models to communicate a sweep of English man style.

Burton projects McQueen's historicism and romanticism with an almost scary effortlessness, but she brought her own irreverent openness to the collection, the track pants \paired with oversize military-influenced outerwear being one example. There was camp drama in those coats—and in the big plaid poncho. If that felt like genuine McQueen-iness...

One jacket was as soft as a cardigan, another had a firm, squared shoulder, still another was peaked, pagodalike. Burton has her mentor's eye for precision, and for print, too..there were engineered jacquards that duplicated the sheen of a regimental breastplate.

To some eyes, they also suggested celestial clouds, which is scarcely an association one would care to dismiss. And these photos are some of my favourites :)

Lovettes, Khairuz.

Just call me DANDY

Talk about our sexy footballer peniSTARd, David Beckham we always know that he's one of male fashion icon and quite frankly this body-ass-tard melted me for so longg ago!!!

The reason I post about him, because in the world of my design, Im not really good in design menswear but this kinda inspiring me..

we never know if this is what Victoria plan for or our Daveyy being forced to look masculinely gorgeous! As he made it trendy for men look as stylish as their wives ayte???

"I do admit to some vanity over the years of being office's natty dresser"

I think he should create his own collection, thoughts? :)

Lovettes, Khairuz <3