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Menswear Fashion Week in Paris |
 After haute couture fashion week has ended the menswear collections for autumn/winter 2007-8 have taken the limelight in Paris. Jean Paul Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf, Yves Saint Laurent are amongst those who have already showed their collections. John Galliano is set off to show his ideas with his collection for Dior on Tuesday as a part of the last day of five days of shows.
The Yves Saint Laurent menswear collection for autumn and winter should attract younger customers. Justin Timberlake watched the Ives Saint Laurent menswear collection from the first row. Yves Saint Laurent show reflected the influences of client Justin Timberlake and models on the show looked like clones of the singer. The fashion house is dressing Timberlake for his current world tour. “He’s a style icon because he represents a generation that is very contemporary," Yves Saint Laurent’s designer, Stefano Pilati told Associated Press.
“To show at his age that he has this sense of style and appreciation for luxurious things and clothes, and is not somebody that leaves things to just happen -- for me that’s what represents style,” he added.
Other fashion labels have presented menswear collections with the feminine touch, like for example Dries van Noten and Kris van Assche. “You can easily mix masculine and feminine elements in a collection, like extremely shiny shoes,” Dries van Noten has said. “My main thing that I wanted to do was create a kind of a strange elegance, really with a lot of attention to details, shapes and colours and proportions,” he added.
Hermès has presented the collection for traditional men that likes classical luxury. The collection for autumn 2007 presented by this fashion house included trench coat in chocolate Barenia calfskin, storm blue crocodile blousons and subtly soft snakeskin posh rocker jackets.
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