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MILAN (AP) — Milan way designers are offering an escape route for next winter.
Fantasy was the atmosphere permeating runways on the third day of previews for the winter 2013 menswear collections.
Men, burdened by universal worries, could become yesteryear dandies, or Victorian charmers. In more extreme cases, they might even take beat a retreat.
Though they went in decidedly different directions, all of the designers took many of the same cues, including duplicate-breasted suits, evening tailcoats, ascots, velvet slippers, fur trimming, floral prints and brocade.
Next winter, feathers invoke freedom on a multitude of garments, allowing men to play peacock.
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GUCCI
Next winter's Gucci guys are part rocker romantics, part dandy dreamers.
"Tormented poets," ingenious director Frida Giannini calls them in her show notes, men who have a passion for roses, and are committed to a exploration for a personal style.
The overall look of the latest Gucci omnium gatherum is by the designer's own description "Bohemian grunge.
Source: The Associated Press