The past five years have seen something of a style resurgence in menswear, with the dress down days of the early millennium being replaced by a more elegant, classical aesthetic that has seen men turn to their forebears for sartorial inspiration.
Drawing on the elegant styles that defined a quintessentially formal generation, designer menswear has started to look inward, away from the lose and generously cut suits of Italian tailoring, to the sharp profiles and tapered silhouettes of Savile Row. The result is an elegance that hasnt been seen for many years, with the return of unique styles shaped by a common desire for formality and elegance. Designer menswear has, of course, always bucked the trends of the High Street and retained certain elegance, even when its been paying lip service to the vapid inanity of high couture and the Milan catwalk.
Where we once had unconstructed shoulders, wide lapels and boot cut trousers, we have the edifying spectacle of peak lapels, well cut brogues, raffish pocket squares, skinny ties, waistcoats and button holes. The transformation has been further propelled by a range of popular US television dramas such as The Sopranos, Suits and Mad Men. Whether these are simply following a nascent sartorial zeitgeist or have forged their own aesthetic is anyones guess, but the results are the same. Designer menswear has distilled and crystallized these trends and brought a contemporary take on the styles of yesteryear, mediating new techniques and applying them to traditional fabrics, helping propel Englands traditional weaving industry back to where it was some sixty years ago. Harris Tweed has never been so popular and demand has been such that its prices have risen dramatically in answer to increased demand.
Such is the desire for high-quality mens tailoring that Savile Row institutions have been poached by Asian private equity houses, and branches established as far afield as Hong Kong and Shanghai. Where once tailoring was a dying trade, the growing popularity of celebrity designers like Ozwald Boateng have reinvigorated it to the extent that it is beginning to return to its core roots as the preserve of working class artisan skills and craft. A smorgasbord of aesthetic cross pollination has led to the dynamic enjambment of mod and punk styles, along with other quintessentially British counter cultural movements such as the punks and rockers, leading to a fertile, not to say febrile mash-up of haute couture that is within reach of the man on the street.
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