Super Moon

Tonight the moon will be the closest it's been to earth for 19 years. It's cloudy so I won't be able to see it but as an homage to the moon, any extra-terrestrial friends out there and to a man who has done his fair share for menswear, here's a couple of pictures of The Man Who Fell To Earth, Mr David Bowie, taken by Geoff MacCormack.

The striped jacket is an original by Bowie's tailor Freddie Burretti and shows him on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1973 where I imagine he turned a few heads.

The second is a shot taken on the set of The Man Who Fell To Earth. Is there anybody like him out there?

Let's hear it for the boys

Contrary to what this blog may suggest I find menswear a more interesting and definitely subtle ground. It's time for me to focus on a few menswear thoughts and in order to kick this off I am posting one of my favourite shots ever. A Jean-Paul Gaultier outfit from a few years back.

Yes he's wearing a skirt but.. it's everything together that makes it masculine, his glance, his cigarette, his hair, his stance. While the straps and harness give it a hint of some other world. It's a great picture.

Apocalypse now

Chanel's stern women had dressed in a hurry to escape who knows what sort of ashen situation this season. Layered clothes, jackets sewn in to one another, quilted fabrics, these girls (and a couple of guys) were not hanging around to make small talk.

Many of the shows this season had a fin de siecle feel about them be it war or some other disaster the future has yet to reveal, and it's safe to say we're experiencing enough of both just now.

Great fashion designers have always been able to distill our consciousness in to clothes and from the images I've seen recently there may be trouble ahead.