Calvin Klein's Spring 2010 Campaign (NSFW)

A little Monday Morning Meat.

Steven Klein - Photographer
David Agbodji - Model
Fabien Baron - Art Director









Believe it or not, we don't find these pictures all that hot. They're striking and he's stunningly beautiful and we're always happy to see a model of color (especially a male, since black men are even more invisible than black women in fashion), but something about this isn't working for us. It's the greasiness. All we can think is "Ohmigod, you are ruining those clothes with all that baby oil!" And we don't think it helped with the posing. Clearly he couldn't move around much without getting oil streaks all over everything and that stiffness comes through. Look at the way his hands are positioned in the clothed shots. Carefully placed so as not to stain the clothing. There's no sensuality to it.

And in typical CK style, it's been slapped up on a billboard just to piss people off and get them talking. That trick's been working for 30 years.


[Photos: models.com]


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Yea or Nay: Men's Skirt

Time to break out the Nair, boys.

H&M unveiled its Spring 2010 lookbooks and the men's line features skirts to go along with the blazers, harem pants, long scarves, and other forms of H&M male frippery.

H&M Spring 2010 Collection

Our response is a shrug and a "whatever makes your skirt fly up." It's never been our thing but if you're dying to show off your calves, have at it. What amuses us is that once a decade, someone tries to sell skirts to men and every time they act like they invented the idea. Admittedly, H&M is probably as far into the mainstream as the idea ever got, but we still don't see it expanding past the closets of fashionistas.

Comme des Garçons Fall 2009 Collection

Call us limited in our thinking if you like, but except for the occasional kilt, this has never been a look we've responded well to. It's just not our thing and despite the fevered efforts of others to make it so, it's never really going to a be a thing any time soon. But hey, have fun with it, we say. If you have a burning need to feel the subway breeze on your panties while you walk down the street, then you're just the boy for these looks.

Here's the rest of the H&M Spring 2010 lookbook for men, in case you want to do some virtual wardrobe boosting while you try and figure out your skirt size:

[Photos: style.com/hm.com]


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Bottega Veneta Menswear Spring 2010 Collection

We'll take 2 of everything!

Style.com:

"Tomas Maier's exploration of male American archetypes has generated some mighty fine pieces of clothing in the eight years since he took the helm at Bottega Veneta, but he might have outdone himself for Spring 2010. The first hint was in the hairdos created for the show by star tonsorialist Guido Palau. It was a sticky-uppy, urgent look—hair for a young man in a hurry. And where might he be going? Well, a baseball jacket opened the show, then there was an army-ish group followed by tailored pieces in Chinese red and the pinks and oranges of a tropical sunset (also, exotic floral motifs and a blouson in red silk). Next came an extraordinary tie-dye moment, and, finally, denims paired with a midnight-blue tux jacket—quintessential all-American casual dressiness. The arc was unmistakably cinematic: young sporting star enlists, gets caught up in some Southeast Asian military adventure—with attendant psychedelic freak-out—and returns home as decorated hero. Okay, maybe I'm under the influence of the florid shade Maier labeled "fever red," and maybe what we saw really was a statement about mixing up formal and sporty with nary a care for rules (that would be the tailored jacket-and-sweatpants ensemble), but kudos to the designer for projecting such extraordinarily vivid images in his audience's mind, however delusional they/I might be."

Okay, that review is just a skosh too breathless for us to totally get behind, but we agree that this is a fantastic collection of stylish, wearable looks for the modern male. In fact, if we can continue the line of thought in Style's review, it appears to us that this collection takes a good look at all the archetypes of the modern man - from sports star, to businessman, to rock star, to lover - it's the grown up style equivalent of the little boy who can't decide if he wants to be an astronaut, a fireman, or President. From manly man to fop and everything in between, this collection isn't just for the modern man, it's about the modern man.

[Photos: firstView]


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