Alexander McQueen – FALL 2021 MENSWEAR
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Typical to the house was tailoring that blended the ceremonial with the severe and was resistant to timestamping: a pair of gray flannels that featured double pleating and a sculpturally cut inhalation south of the knee was a pant especially worth panting for. Just as those hybrid garments more readably conjoined conventionally siloed forms of menswear—tailoring and denim, and so on— so this collection appeared more loosely to collide periods of menswear. Interplaying currents in the informal wear saw a relatively classic bomber teamed with straight-leg high-rise denim and styled in a medley of Kamen-esque Buffalo and rockabilly, and beyond both of them Ivy League. High-waisted but cinched at the ankle submariner pants worn against pec-promoting knits evoked a slightly Puritan redux of the piratical post-punk London New Romanticism
