Yesterday, the “Men’s Fashion Week” ended in Paris. The trends included “gender-fluid,” “non-binary,” and “anti-masculine.” Is men’s fashion still about fashion?
Yesterday, the “Men’s Fashion Week 2024” ended in Paris. Over the weeks, designers show how they imagine the future. Spoiler: daring.
“Elegance is like mayonnaise: it either tastes good or it doesn’t,” fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld once said. This year’s Fashion Week leaves a very special aftertaste: while this week’s ready-to-wear fashion for men was presented (clown costumes, party hats and pink loafers), next week will be “Haute Couture Week”.
Fashion is often not seen as an economic factor or cultural asset in the German media. Although “gender-fluid”, “non-binary” or even “anti-masculine” are not bad fashion statements. But the looks that are most often shown in the media are those that are particularly grotesque. The Tagesschau decided to post with the title “This is what fashion will look like next year”. In fact, the shows that were presented here are not particularly relevant to the actual market.
No political statement at Fashion Week in Paris
Nevertheless, this year’s Fashion Week in Paris makes it clear that the international fashion world has once again missed the opportunity to combine fashion with one or two political statements. An event so focused on glamour and beauty that it seems to fall out of the world of everyday life.
“France is about to hold the most important elections in its recent history. There is a danger that right-wing extremist forces will win. (…) And French superstars sing at Fashion Week – but without a political message to the people,” reads one comment under the Tagesschau post.
“A medium that has understood everything about fashion, but is in danger of losing touch with reality,” another review aptly sums it up.
The German edition of Vogue recently showed how politics and fashion can be successfully combined: the latest cover features 102-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer.
The latest cover of Vogue attracted worldwide attention and was widely shared by other media outlets, from “Spiegel” to “CNN”.
Source: Stern
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