Sleeves Magazine Men's Fashion Week Special Men's Fashion Week June 2016 | Seite 143

outfits. When they hit these looks are
clever patchworks which draw the eye on
a meaningful journey. When they miss,
they just look like someone wearing two
suits at once.
Then there are the three or four
enormous hooded lurex cassocks, or
habits, or onesies. I’d struggle to imagine
someone enjoying their sexual
peccadillos in one of those… or near
one… or simply ater discovering that
such a garment exists, such is the
incongruously cosseting warmth of their
billowing folds. As outfits go these are far
more wet nurse than dominatrix.
Finally a word on the music, designed
and produced by Finn MacTaggart. I’d
have expected more from the co-founder
(as Finn Diesel) of PC Music, the thrillingly
infantile record label/art collective
founded in London in 2013. It’s clunky
and directionless, but worse, it’s
unobtrusive, pedestrian, even mundane.
The sort of thing a retired relative might
think is too edgy for radio, but that we all
know would really fit in quite well with
Kesha, Katy Perry, and the newer angrier
Bieber. In a show so wilfully and
unapologetically rangey and mad, the
soundtrack is lost. A non-element. Which
is a shame.
But taken for all, Xander Zhou’s SS17
collection ought to be an absolute hoot.
There’s something for everyone, so long
as you don’t expect anyone to find you
sexually attractive. Ever.

Photo: LCM

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