Gucci Mens wear Spring Summer 2011 Collection

Frida Giannini¡®s Spring/Summer 2012 collection for Gucci found inspiration from Tennis and Golf. Sharp suits in Prince of Wales print stood out most in a collection of exceptional suits. Trousers were skinny, some with red tips at the cuff. Accessories are always the center of the attention in the Gucci Collections, for next summer the bags gets a red and white strip, declined from calf leather to alligator. Giannini¡¯s favorite, horseback riding: lines of leather inserted in trim coats and bags crafted from saddle leather.

The men¡¯s fashion gravey train pulled out of Milan this week (Dolce, Gucci, Armani, Ferragamo, etc) and headed for Paris, where Marc Jacobs¡¯ spring/summer Louis Vuitton collection started things off ¨C not with a bang, but with a lot of man bags! Of course, this IS LV, after all, you¡¯re not NOT going to see a lot of bags. But along with the slim cut dark, pale grey and off white traditional-but-streetwise menswear, there were crazy grey and white semi-camouflage shoes, tote bags, shoulder bags and every kind of bag in leathers light and heavy ¨C and even a scarf tied around a summer suit like a belt. Will American men buy it? Perhaps it¡¯s time to get over the man bag stigma, as these are pretty beautiful, and they look quite masculine. Now, as for those shoes . . .