What it Feels Like For A Boy (In A Dress): J.W. Anderson Fall/Winter 2013 Menswear
1.10.2013
By Daniel Tehrani
http://www.out.com/fashion/truman-says/2013/01/10/boy-dress-jw-anderson-fallwinter-2013-menswearThe up-and-coming British designer put men in dresses down his runway, making a poignant statement on the status of modern masculinity.
Sending men down the runway in stiff minidresses isn't the most commercial of ideas but Jonathan Anderson, designer at the helm of J.W. Anderson has other things on his mind with his latest collection. To be specific, gender equality and a move to salvage menswear from the boredom he finds it languishes in. J.W. Anderson, the new it Brit designer who will soon debut a capsule collection for Verace's Versus label, is no stranger to gender blending.
In fact, it's part of the recognizable branding he's crafted since the birth of his label in 2007. "There's something that has gone stale for a while in men's, and I think you have to blow it up -- then you have a look," he told
Style.Com right off.
The inspiration for his collection, titled Mathematics of Love, was the "examination of bourgeois kinkyness and boudoir perversity" -- the result, men in strapless camel bustiers, frilled bloomer-shorts, doctors' gowns complete with what looks like dishwashing gloves, a powder blue robe and kinky leather pleated dresses. Wearable? Not quite. Commercial? Definitely not, but it is certainly conceptual.
