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Raf Simons have a good excuse for smiling

It seems like a year ago or so people thought they would loose their mind cuz omg how exciting isn't menswear gonna turn out, but then people got a little bit tierd of Cassette Playa and all those slogans, neons and cheap mondays, and well...somewhere I lost my interest too and stared wearing just grey and envy the Balenciaga-girl. Typical enough, for fall 08/09 I end up finding coats with marble-prints most exciting...and I guess it's not that weird, after all: Raf Simons began the whole now-menswear-is-going-to-take-more-chances-blablabla-revolution...(and that, without making an asymetrical mess, with diagonal zippers, skirts and some animal-horns)

Jil Sander fall 08/09

Raf Simons used delicate marble prints on this collection, but for his own mainline the inspiration was rather more colorful:

Mark Rothko? Why not, I guess it's a natural reaction after all those pixels...remember the handpainted dressed Dolce & Gabbana did? I think we might have a art-school prom king and queen here:

Anyway, I'm not sure about these ones, but it's gonna take months before they hits stores, so there's time to get used too them

Hair and make-up?

Hitlerjugend-cut and just color hair-roots, like here, from the Dries Van Noten-show

Yves Saint Laurent fall 08/09

As for the presentations, it looks like films instead of a ordinary catwalk-presentation is not just a trend...it started of with Yves Saint Laurent and a video directed by London based Colonel Blimp. Stefano Pilati did a video with Nick Knight for showstudio last year, 24HRS. (don't forget Knights collaboration with Hussein Chalayan, Readings.) 

And as a climax, it ended with Bernhard Willhelm

Check out the project-blog for this video on showstudio, as it's interesting too see the process before the final outcome, especially when it's a Knight/Willhelm-collaboration with balletdancers, a discofloor and a concrete-mixer...the working title? MEN IN TIGHTS