The highly desired fashion house Hermès showed their Autumn/Winter 2012/3 Menswear collection in Paris this week. The dark collection featured reptile skins, chunky knits, leather, and smoke patterns. with hints of burgundy and stone colours. One of the models looked a lot like Joe Manganiello from Trueblood.
Walter Van Beirendonck’s menswear collection for AW12, Lust never sleeps, was based around a literal face-off between masks: the kind that warriors in Papua, New Guinea, or voodoo high priests in the Caribbean paint on, and the leather kind that Western fetishists wear in big-city sex clubs. Using strictly black African models dressed bright tailored suits, fluffy mohairs, Clockwork Orange style bowler hats and full body leather waders.
Maison Martin Margiela opted for a palette of neutral tones and blacks with hints of red leather. The show started of with classic formal looks, but went on to show leather waistcoats, red and white motorcycle trousers, glossy bomber jackets and puffer jackets which gave an edgy and modern twist to the timeless design.
