New York Fashion Week | Loden Dager Fall 2010

Loden Dager’s lat­est endeavor is a pre­cise exer­cise in the grad­ual dis­sec­tion of menswear stan­dards. Tak­ing a refresh­ingly light approach to fall, relaxed suits are dressed in an array of both neu­tral and jovial col­ors. Ini­tially a con­ser­v­a­tive focus, this point of view unrav­els as the col­lec­tion pro­gresses with looser sil­hou­ettes that hang freely from the body as sep­a­rates take on volu­mi­nous belted out­er­wear and cape-​​inspired jack­ets. From dropped crotches and folded waist­lines to safe shirt­ing options, Loden Dager opts for a styl­ish sea­son of wide appeal. Infus­ing a mod­ern sophis­ti­ca­tion with a cer­tain infor­mal­ity, Loden Dager arrives at the per­fect bal­ance of sub­stance and style.

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Photo of the Day | Playing with Fire

Ben Hill pho­tographed by Cédric Buchet

Milan Fashion Week | Iceberg Fall 2010

Lac­ing their laid-​​back sig­na­ture style with a con­cept, Ice­berg turns to the vagrant for a low-​​key, but styl­ish wardrobe update. Mix­ing decon­structed fab­rics and muted flo­ral prints with suit­ing sep­a­rates that inhibit a vari­ety of motifs, a quirky sense of chaos sets the col­lec­tion apart from others.

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Milan Fashion Week | Giorgio Armani Fall 2010

Gior­gio Armani turns to blue, black and gray this sea­son to dress his man in an array of prints and geo­met­rics. Using the sil­hou­ette as a tapes­try, con­ven­tional fab­rics are given an inti­mate impres­sion with the blend­ing of roman­tic under­tones and sporty aspi­ra­tions. Alto­gether, Armani deliv­ers a col­lec­tion that improves upon last sea­son with a finely exe­cuted vision that sets his artis­tic range apart from his contemporaries.

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Milan Fashion Week | John Richmond Fall 2010

A byprod­uct of old and new ideas, the lat­est col­lec­tion from John Rich­mond tests age sen­si­bil­i­ties with gar­ments that multi­gen­er­a­tional. The stan­dard suit is let out and reformed with a punk atti­tude, while clas­sic sta­ples like the trench become mod­ern with a quilted update. Mean­while, evening­wear is jux­ta­posed with casual denim and the grandpa sweater left in tact for char­ac­ter. A well-​​rounded fig­ure, John Richmond’s man approaches the fall sea­son with an unwa­ver­ing deter­mi­na­tion to progress his style, while also pay­ing a nod to the classics.

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Milan Fashion Week | Vivienne Westwood Fall 2010

Lin­ing the run­way in card­board boxes, Vivi­enne West­wood pays a cheeky homage to the home­less with her lat­est col­lec­tion. In a world where you take what­ever is avail­able, Westwood’s man is humor­ously cloaked in every­thing from the two-​​piece suit and over­coat to deca­dent fur out­er­wear. Know­ing no bound­aries, the designer’s col­lec­tion offers a disheveled serv­ing of eclec­tic ref­er­ences that bind both for­mal and infor­mal ideas.

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