Everyone is always writing about how men are getting more into fashion. See, the fashion industry would love that; if men could be persuaded to double their spend on fashion – to something like the same level as women – the fashion industry would be a third bigger and a lot richer. Anyway, it’s kinda true, men are slowly shaking whatever happened to the Victorians that made them so afraid of showing off. Normally the men’s shows in Milan and Paris happen a couple of months before the women’s, but London’s fashion week has grown a MAN day. When gayed-out fashion people, who grew up spending too much time with their mum’s magazines, try and put a masculine spin on the female-dominated fashion industry’s products it doesn’t work that well in the real world. Winning over the men’s style press is easy and too much like preaching to the converted. Read more »