We will return to travel, to party, to take airplanes and climb mountains: the fashion for him for next winter seen in these days in Milan is full of desire for life. Despite skipped shows for the covid, green pass and ffp2, on the catwalk there is a strong desire to look beyond, imagining that these of the 2000s are the new, roaring, twenties, those of recovery, of the return to real life. A freer life, above all, and here is a man no longer bound in the wardrobe, who can wear short jackets such as bolero, colored and non-colored fur coats, knitted dresses and leggings and also put on a skirt, perhaps with knee-highs, the shoulder bag and shoes stolen from her. A freedom that also passes through new forms, all softer, more fluid, slippery,because - it is now established - there is no going back from the comfort experienced in the months of lockdown.
It is an inspiration that also infects formal clothing, increasingly contaminated by casual wear, with light jackets like shirts, comfortable trousers like those for jogging. It is time - this is the suggestion of the Milanese week - to forget the classic men's suit jacket-shirt-tie: even in the office today you can go with new, hybrid suits, where the shirt is as elegant as a blazer, or it can be replaced from a T-shirt or a technical vest, while the trousers can have an elastic waistband instead of the canonical belt. There is a desire to leave, to return to travel, to climb alpine peaks, the symbol of freedom in nature declined in a winter key. And here is the world of alpine sports that contaminates city clothing, with trekker boots,backpacks and ropes that become metropolitan.
There is a desire to return to party, with sparkling garments, bright colors, metallic gold and silver sweaters.
There is a desire to go back to dressing well to go out, to go out into the world, to escape from their homes.
And here are the performance duvets and those in noble fabrics, the soft coats like dressing gowns and the structured ones, with huge and dropped shoulders, perhaps tightened at the waist by belts.
And after two years of darkness there is a desire for color, with flashes of pink and yellow, prints and embroidery, lamé and sequins, dreaming of really entering the new, roaring Twenties evoked by the collections on the catwalk.
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