Anti-Circus // Menswear

So with LC:M coming up obviously menswear is the talk on everyone's lips. But recently my attention was brought towards yet another issue which rears it's ugly head every time people show their newest collections, street style. 

I've made posts about this before, whether its neccisary or not. Do people dress to the extreme, is it an attention thing, should we just dismiss it etc etc. Last time I found myself defending the topic was when The Sunday Times launched an attack on people and it's happened once again. 

This time from Dazed, which if I'm honest I'm a little shocked about but here's the online post by Susanne Madsen //The Anti-Circus of Menswear//. So where to start with it all, honestly Susanne really  annoys me one by making comments such as 'you get a lot less bitchy' and yet her whole argument is  a bitchy rant about LC:M's streetstyle. 

Another interesting aspect about the whole thing comes from one of the people photographed in the photos, Ashley James Clark voicing his opinion on the whole matter //here// being someone that's basically the target of her whole argument I feel like his post is perfectly validated. 

He brings attention to the same sorts of things I would honestly, talking about how she refers to the street style crowd as clowns, expecting everyone to be toned down and LC:M being a more secret refined affair. Honestly why? Why should people have to justify style, when being in an industry such as fashion obviously you're going to have the unusual and different, it's a given.

Why can't men be a bit more interesting with their style, I for one and someone who thinks 90% of high-street is drab and wouldn't give it the time of day. Why, probably because men's fashion has been boxed off into a limited colour pallette and only luxury designers will touch a brighter colour. Not the only reason but one of many. She also mentions menswear making up 50% of the luxury market, talking about it's growth and how it's fashions best kept secret. 

Yet another why, if it's 50% of the luxury market would you want to hide it? Clearly its somewhere where there's profit which highlights a want and need for it too. Probably for some of the same reasons I prefer luxury over highstreet. If anything bringing attention to the collections is the main issue here. I think we need to focus more on the clothes and collections coming down the catwalk rather than the people attending the shows.