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By Natasha Aftandillians
Staff Writer
The parade of men’s fashion shows for the Fall 2012 collections kicked off with a bang in Florence with Pitti Uomo, the week-long fair devoted to those preening peacocks and dapper dandies of the boys’ fashion club.
For a girl like me, events like Pitti Uomo are the ultimate spectacle of male beauty. The general assumption may be that men are oblivious to the world of high fashion, but fashion week proves this wrong.
Men can be just as obsessed with their clothes as women; look at any good street-style blog and you’ll see boys strutting their stuff outside the tents at fashion week right alongside the pretty girls in sky-high heels.
But sadly, the percentage of men in the general population who are as fashion-obsessed as women is woefully small. Men tend to put a minimal effort into making sartorial choices, but whose fault is that? I blame the fashion industry at large.
They produce the same items every season, with very little stylistic variation. You get the same button-downs, blazers and boots every year; has men’s fashion really become this static?
Source: New University Online