We are terribly sorry about the lack of updates, but we have been pretty much occuppied with Audi Fashion Festival in Singapore. Speaking about Singapore Fashion Festival, there was nothing much exciting, as I had expected prior. Marchessa being Marchessa, and Cavalli, well I don't know, being Cavalli I guess. The same collections you see ages ago online at Style.com. And the host even dared to ask Mango to grace down the catwalk, they might as well ask Giordano and Topshop to open and close the Singapore Fashion Week.
Having said that, I have spotted a few interesting individuals, such as the creme de la creme of Fashion blogger, Bryanboy, Henry Holland from the House of Holland, the always sun-kissed Roberto Cavalli and the legendary fashion writer, Colin McDowell. The later re-inspired me to browse through his official blog again and to peak what was on his mind during his time in Singapore. It's always so inspiring to browse inside the brain of someone so genius and articulate. And Voila! look at what i found, my exact sentiment for years towards Singapore fashion sense graces his blog loud and wide. If this doesn't make Singaporeans consider their fashion sense, i don't know what else does. But unlike his opinion I think Singaporeans' fashion sense is heavily influenced by the Australians. But honey, there is a reason why they are called The Land From Down Under.Because it has never made it to the top.
Singapore Fashion Week: Men in (Scruffy) Shorts
Someone once said that if you sit in a hotel lobby long enough, everyone you ever knew will pass by. I don't know about that but I do know that any hotel lobby will give you an instant snapshot of how fashion is actually worn by all the myriad shapes and sizes of men and women who are so far removed from the designer's idealised dreams – and that includes the swanky, expensive people too.
And it is quite a shock.
I thought about this sitting in the lobby of the St Regis in Singapore waiting for Roberto Cavalli, whose private jet had been delayed by bad weather. He and his show are the stars of this year's Singapore Audi Fashion Week at the grand final gala night on Sunday. It will be a high-glam occasion of course – how could it be anything else, featuring as it does Roberto's personal selection of great evening gowns from the past as well as his current collection?
What a contrast to what walked through the lobby in the short time I sat there.
Let me say immediately that, as you might expect, it is the men who are the most criminal offenders. We all accept that America did a lot to casualise men's dress and that it was something well overdue but sadly, the rest of the world – preeminently the Brits – have turned casual, non-status clothes into something so ugly that scruffy is not a strong enough word to describe it. Hideous shorts – and even more hideous legs – reinforce the old saying that men never dress to attract women but only to display a crude contempt and power to other men. The result is that they have all the glamour of a hyena.
The sad thing is that, instead of fighting this movement, designers have followed it. But although their versions are better cut than the cheap ones most men wear (which are probably made under appalling labour conditions), they still flatter perhaps one in thirty men under thirty and nobody older.
I had hoped for some visual respite in London this winter as it was very cold and all normal adults would have changed into trousers. But it didn't happen. Men of all ages continued to dress as if they were postmen and wear shorts even in the snow. I can't help hoping that the cold effects their sperm count so that this particular form of idiocy is eradicated by a process of natural selection.
Read and preach my dear gays and gayelles.
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