Vice Style

We're always being told that we should be more like the rest of the fashion industry and stop being so into sportswear and music and get with the man bag program. If we were reviewing Milan fashion week, the city where most of the big high fashion menswear business is done, that would probably be apt, but the labels that show in Paris aren't really about shifting suits, even if sometimes they pretend they are. No one cared about Givenchy until they started making what is essentially streetwear. No one gives a damn about Dior now that it's not sold off the backs of new musicians. Mugler's big because of Nicola Formichetti's marketing genius, not because the suits are a recognized phenomenon, and Raf ceased to be important around about the same time the blazers took prominence over the teenage sci-fi fantasies. Maybe Kim Jones' Louis Vuitton proves this theory wrong, maybe not, but anyone who knows anything about Kim, knows he loves thugs and sportswear. So forgive us for worrying about the sort of shows that make fashion fun and not droning on about tailoring.

To that end, we had fashion writer Dan Thawley review the more exciting shows for us.

Having been in Berlin at Bread & Butter all week, we missed out on Rick Owens, the Mugler show, and Walter Van Bierendonck, but here's a rapid-fire edited highlights of what we did see.