Givenchy Shark Shirt
Givenchy recently came out with a line of what looked like skirts for men but turned out to be skorts called 'Bermuda shorts'. I know fashion designers like to bend the rules and break with traditions etc, but let's face it, a spade is a spade, a pair of Bermuda shorts are a pair of Bermuda shorts, and a skort is a skort. If we start redefining what words mean in order to sell over priced monstrosities, then where will it all end?
At first, I and many others believed that Givenchy had brought out a line of male skirts, which would have been awesome. However what they actually did was take half a skirt and half a pair of shorts and mash them together in a way that didn't really do either garment any justice. Givenchy's idea of Bermuda shorts is apparently a skirt in the front and shorts in the back. Like Frankenstein, except without any chance of ever being a classic.
Givenchy appears to be trying to keep a foot in every camp with this line. Their designs look like skirts from the front, like shorts with an apron from the back, are called Bermuda shorts but are really skorts. So if you're a conservative traditional dresser, you can say that you're wearing Bermuda shorts, if you're a guy who wants to wear a skirt you can pretend you're in a skirt. Except you're not.
I don't really have a problem with skorts. They are brilliant when you're six years old and you like pretty skirts but want to be able to hang upside down from the jungle gym without showing off your underwear. As an adult however, skorts seem somehow juvenile and also reflective of an inability to commit fully to a garment.
To be fair to the Givenchy collection, it does incorporate quite a great deal of lost femininity, you know, with the lace cravat style shirts that are also sort of meshy and see through at the same time. That's a nice sentiment and all, but this line falls and fail in the same place that so many fashion lines do and that is the gaping chasm between what designers think looks good and what people will actually wear. I'm aware that this is supposed to be 'high' fashion, but the Bermuda skort strikes me as simply being the product of someone who was quite high when he designed them.
The Givenchy skorts look ridiculous. They look fine from the front, where they look like straight line skirts, but from the back they look baggy, ill fitting and quite frankly, vaguely as if the wearer is wearing diapers underneath them. If they look that way on chiseled models, they're not going to do the average guy any justice either.
Maybe next season Givenchy will commit to a real fashion revolution.
At first, I and many others believed that Givenchy had brought out a line of male skirts, which would have been awesome. However what they actually did was take half a skirt and half a pair of shorts and mash them together in a way that didn't really do either garment any justice. Givenchy's idea of Bermuda shorts is apparently a skirt in the front and shorts in the back. Like Frankenstein, except without any chance of ever being a classic.
Givenchy appears to be trying to keep a foot in every camp with this line. Their designs look like skirts from the front, like shorts with an apron from the back, are called Bermuda shorts but are really skorts. So if you're a conservative traditional dresser, you can say that you're wearing Bermuda shorts, if you're a guy who wants to wear a skirt you can pretend you're in a skirt. Except you're not.
I don't really have a problem with skorts. They are brilliant when you're six years old and you like pretty skirts but want to be able to hang upside down from the jungle gym without showing off your underwear. As an adult however, skorts seem somehow juvenile and also reflective of an inability to commit fully to a garment.
To be fair to the Givenchy collection, it does incorporate quite a great deal of lost femininity, you know, with the lace cravat style shirts that are also sort of meshy and see through at the same time. That's a nice sentiment and all, but this line falls and fail in the same place that so many fashion lines do and that is the gaping chasm between what designers think looks good and what people will actually wear. I'm aware that this is supposed to be 'high' fashion, but the Bermuda skort strikes me as simply being the product of someone who was quite high when he designed them.
The Givenchy skorts look ridiculous. They look fine from the front, where they look like straight line skirts, but from the back they look baggy, ill fitting and quite frankly, vaguely as if the wearer is wearing diapers underneath them. If they look that way on chiseled models, they're not going to do the average guy any justice either.
Maybe next season Givenchy will commit to a real fashion revolution.
Givenchy Rottweiler Oversized T Shirts
Utilising their popular Rottweiler Print from previous seasons, Givenchy have decided to allow the original design resurface yet again for their spring/summer 2012 collection. However, this time the high fashion brand have fused the masculine print with softer elements – giving it a refreshing twist.
This colourful and striking Rottweiler & floral design is located around the collar of the soft black cotton t-shirt, running across both the front and the back. The black base is the perfect anchor to such a bold statement print, whilst having it located at just the neckline helps keep it confined and not overtly garish.
One factor that we are particularly fond of comes from the conflict of elements within the design. Givenchy has utilised harsh imagery, in the form of snarling Rottweiler’s, and juxtaposed them against a somewhat feminine floral pattern.
At FashionBeans we try to inspire you each day with unusual pieces you may not have thought of before – this is one of those. Although most of the team are not completely sold on this piece, we know that for true Givenchy fans it will be a sure fire hit, just like it will be for those who are looking for something unique and individual amongst the mass of printed clothing available this spring/summer.
This colourful and striking Rottweiler & floral design is located around the collar of the soft black cotton t-shirt, running across both the front and the back. The black base is the perfect anchor to such a bold statement print, whilst having it located at just the neckline helps keep it confined and not overtly garish.
One factor that we are particularly fond of comes from the conflict of elements within the design. Givenchy has utilised harsh imagery, in the form of snarling Rottweiler’s, and juxtaposed them against a somewhat feminine floral pattern.
At FashionBeans we try to inspire you each day with unusual pieces you may not have thought of before – this is one of those. Although most of the team are not completely sold on this piece, we know that for true Givenchy fans it will be a sure fire hit, just like it will be for those who are looking for something unique and individual amongst the mass of printed clothing available this spring/summer.
EDIT: Apparently, these aren't actually skirts, but skorts, which Givenchy is calling 'bermuda shorts', which sort of takes the original awesomeness of what appeared to be their designs and steps it down several notches. Several. notches. Still, on the plus size, you'd still look like you were wearing a skirt until someone checked out your behind. I don't know how comforting that is.
Givenchy has picked up the torch of skirts for men (edit: no they haven't) in its Fall / Winter collection. Not content with putting a solo skirt in there for a bit of gimmicky androgynous draw, skirts make up around half of the men's collection, along with feminine jewelery, and shoes styled to look like strappy women's sandals, sorry, correct that, strappy velvet sandals that are unashamedly for men! (At least the sandals are actually sandals, unless they later turn out to be Buddhist mandalas. I wouldn't put it past Givenchy at this point.)
My favorite ensemble has to be one which seems strangely reminiscent of the hub I once wrote called ' Men Wear Lingerie, Jesus Wore A Dress'. This ensemble is made up of dark opaque stockings, a short simple skirt and a 'Jesus is Lord' T-Shirt. Pure beauty. Behold the casual chic of this ensemble.
The fun doesn't end there though, Givenchy also sent shirtless male models down the runway wearing nothing but skirts, stockings and the trade mark sandal type creations in black velvet. It's gorgeous, entirely gorgeous. I love the fact that they've put some serious effort into creating footwear that goes with a male skirt and stocking combination. Oh, and the slightly retro foppish lace cravat shirt? Yes! Oh yes! (If I didn't know better I would say that these hubs mandatory reading for the Givenchy crowd.) But the brilliance is that they are not. The brilliance is that the changes and fashions I keep yammering on about are actually occurring out there at the fringes of fashion and they will, nay they must, make their way into the mainstream eventually.
There is so much more to discover in this collection, so I highly recommend that you go and check it out for yourself, not so much for the purposes of necessarily buying items, but for the purpose of seeing that skirts for men are indeed becoming increasingly mainstream, that the notion of fashion freedom for men is embraced by at least one major fashion house, (though in reality it is embraced by far more) and that the silly close minded women and men who currently think a man is gay if he wears women's clothing will no doubt be gushing over Brad Pitt in a skirt in just a few more years. (Well maybe not the men, but the straight women probably. You know what I mean. The men will be too busy being dressed in skirts for dinner by their wives.)
Fashion is changing! Long live the fashion revolution!
Visit the givenshy site. (You're looking for Collections > Men > Fall / Winter 2010. The site was designed by a hopped up monkey with an obsession for Java, but don't let that slow you down.)
And finally, thank you to Steve for the tip off! Great find! You receive 10 lace floral scented internets!
Givenchy has picked up the torch of skirts for men (edit: no they haven't) in its Fall / Winter collection. Not content with putting a solo skirt in there for a bit of gimmicky androgynous draw, skirts make up around half of the men's collection, along with feminine jewelery, and shoes styled to look like strappy women's sandals, sorry, correct that, strappy velvet sandals that are unashamedly for men! (At least the sandals are actually sandals, unless they later turn out to be Buddhist mandalas. I wouldn't put it past Givenchy at this point.)
My favorite ensemble has to be one which seems strangely reminiscent of the hub I once wrote called ' Men Wear Lingerie, Jesus Wore A Dress'. This ensemble is made up of dark opaque stockings, a short simple skirt and a 'Jesus is Lord' T-Shirt. Pure beauty. Behold the casual chic of this ensemble.
The fun doesn't end there though, Givenchy also sent shirtless male models down the runway wearing nothing but skirts, stockings and the trade mark sandal type creations in black velvet. It's gorgeous, entirely gorgeous. I love the fact that they've put some serious effort into creating footwear that goes with a male skirt and stocking combination. Oh, and the slightly retro foppish lace cravat shirt? Yes! Oh yes! (If I didn't know better I would say that these hubs mandatory reading for the Givenchy crowd.) But the brilliance is that they are not. The brilliance is that the changes and fashions I keep yammering on about are actually occurring out there at the fringes of fashion and they will, nay they must, make their way into the mainstream eventually.
There is so much more to discover in this collection, so I highly recommend that you go and check it out for yourself, not so much for the purposes of necessarily buying items, but for the purpose of seeing that skirts for men are indeed becoming increasingly mainstream, that the notion of fashion freedom for men is embraced by at least one major fashion house, (though in reality it is embraced by far more) and that the silly close minded women and men who currently think a man is gay if he wears women's clothing will no doubt be gushing over Brad Pitt in a skirt in just a few more years. (Well maybe not the men, but the straight women probably. You know what I mean. The men will be too busy being dressed in skirts for dinner by their wives.)
Fashion is changing! Long live the fashion revolution!
Visit the givenshy site. (You're looking for Collections > Men > Fall / Winter 2010. The site was designed by a hopped up monkey with an obsession for Java, but don't let that slow you down.)
And finally, thank you to Steve for the tip off! Great find! You receive 10 lace floral scented internets!
