GUCCI MEN'S PRE-FALL COLLECTION 2013

This year's Fall, Gucci's Creative Director, Frida Giannini creates a Contemporary Minimalist Collection.

Gucci will be Fifties this Fall and we will be seeing more Cheked Pattern, Checked Suits, Two Button Jackets and blazers, Tapered Cuffed Pants, Biker Jackets, and Riding Pants.

They will also focus more on Equestrian Shirts and Knitted-Sleeves Riding Coats with a touch of Velvet Collars.

Palettes will be more earthy tones like green, sky blue and khaki.

Accessories will be the usuall suspects, like Leather Duffles, Backpacks, Totes and Briefcases, Sleek Ankle-Boots and a Tortoise Sunglasses. This Collection really creates a very nice Fifties English Countryside Appeal.

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GIVENCHY MEN'S PRE-FALL COLLECTION 2013

from Rottweilers (Givenchy Autumn/Winter Collection 2011),

to Dobermans for this year's Fall Collection.

these Canines will be printed in most shirts and jackets in a very abstract designs and patterns.

I am always impressed with how Riccardo Tisci make use of Iconic Photographs and Arts

and reproduced it for shirts and jackets and make it a statement.

From Sharks, to Bird's of Paradise, to Rottweilers, to Religious Iconography which makes a very good statement last season.

Now he's making use of Iconic Photos of Male Nudes from the late American Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe as an accent to this year's Fall/Winter Collection for Givenchy.

This year's Fall, Ricardo Tisci decided to bring back the checked shirts, in which i believe is a good come-back. 

I love that the checked patterns are so sophisticated, clean and polished.

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