GIVENCHY! Soooo stylish. OMG. If anyone can put me into a pair of sandals next summer, it’s gonna be him – Riccardo Tisci.

This is one of those either love it or hate it (i.e. Cathy Horyn) collection. How to handle male wardrobe stables: white shirt, black trousers, blazer and tee etc can be the make or break point for menswear designers. It’s very easy to do a good taste BCBG collection, and many do that end up producing really boring garment, that’s not Tisci’s case. He takes so much risk on pushing the concrete boundaries in menswear. He proves to us that one can be big-built but remain stylish and elegant at the same time. He wants you to know his ideal male image by introducing what he thinks is new for now and future, I mean, look at his influence on other runways in Milano last week! Aesthetically speaking, Tisci and Slimane couldn’t be more different, the latter was very much about eternal youth and skinny frame; whereas Tisci celebrates refine virility and bold masculinity. And yet, his design mentality is quite similar to the ex-Dior Homme designer. As the juicy coolness and modernism keep floating, they flirt with the rigid traditional French elegance, a burden that could weigh heavily on the shoulder of Maison de Givenchy. Moreover, they both challenge the male silhouette at their time and build a collection that stimulates exciting emotions – I want that, and I mean NOW. And like Slimane’s leather strips and darts, Tisci repeatedly put stars and studs in use and have now become his Givenchy domains. 

The clothes are not even made in France or Italy but in Portugal, the beefcake image is not even working on my body type, but I don’t care. It’s not at all about wanting to look like the models or the image projected, it’s all about the clothes.This is the power of creativity to me. This is a MOVEMENT-in-progress!