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By Natasha Aftandillians
Crozier Writer
The parade of men’s fashion shows for the Fall 2012 collections kicked off with a bang in Florence with Pitti Uomo, the week-extensive fair devoted to those preening peacocks and dapper dandies of the boys’ shape club.
For a girl like me, events like Pitti Uomo are the conclusive spectacle of male beauty. The general assumption may be that men are Lethean to the world of high fashion, but fashion week proves this dishonour.
Men can be just as obsessed with their clothes as women; look at any good roadway-style blog and you’ll see boys strutting their stuff outside the tents at vogue week right alongside the pretty girls in sky-high heels.
But sad to relate, the percentage of men in the general population who are as fashion-obsessed as women is woefully negligible. Men tend to put a minimal effort into making sartorial choices, but whose mistake is that? I blame the fashion industry at large.
They produce the same items every age, with very little stylistic variation. You get the same button-downs, blazers and boots every year; has men’s mania really become this static?
Source: New University Online