Paris Men’s Fashion Week FW20 Moodboard

The fashion of this Paris Fashion Week dedicated to FW20 menswear described, as already suggested by MFW, many versions of a new contemporary elegance, made of sartorial items, experimental silhouettes and art. At Valentino's, Pierpaolo Piccioli, featuring FKA twigs live performance, brought to the catwalk clothes with sharp, slender, fluid shapes, made even more poetic by Inez and Vinoodh's floral images and Melanie Matranga's words. Clare Waight Keller and Givenchy accompanied us on a journey from India to Los Angeles, mixing Maharaja and cowboys; while Kim Jones for the Dior collection took us to the London of Buffalo scenes and Judy Blame, the non-conformist punk icon who has influenced Maison's heritage with his style. While here in the front row there was Kate Moss, with her daughter Lila Grace, applauding the designer, on the Vetements catwalk there was a doppelgänger of the model. Clones of Angelina Jolie, Snoop Dog and Naomi Campbell wore the clothes of the brand which was debuting for the first time without the artistic direction of Demna Gvasalia.

Louis Vuitton presented a reinterpretation of Magritte's surreal world evoking what was already seen in John Galliano's proposals for the SS13 and Moschino's proposals for autumn-winter 2014. Polemics hit also COMME des GARÇONS HOMME PLUS and Rei Kawakubo, accused of cultural appropriation for using cornrow wigs on white models. The brand and its hairstylist apologized immediately, explaining that the original inspiration was the pharaohs and ancient Egypt.

Below are some of the most interesting inspirations of Paris Men's Fashion Week FW20.

Kiko Kostadinov - Kenneth Noland 

JW Anderson - Untitled (Burning House) by Wojnarowicz

Rick Owens - Le Corbusier’s Modulor Man

Rick Owens - Joseph Beuys

Loewe - Christopher Dresser

Craig Green - Yves Klein Sculpture Eponge

Valentino - Inez & Vinoodh 

Valentino - Melanie Matranga 

Louis Vuitton - The future of statues by Renè Magritte

Louis Vuitton - John Galliano Men SS13 Collection by Bill Gaytten

Louis Vuitton – Moschino Men FW14

Namacheko - Gregory Crewdson  

TAKAHIROMIYASHITA TheSoloist - Kosuke Ichikawa 

Yohji Yamamoto -Auguste Sander's project Man of the Twentieth Century

Givenchy -  Yeshwant Rao Holkar II

Rick Owens - Kansai Yamamoto for David Bowie

JUUN.J -  AtomAge magazineby John Sutcliffe 

Dior - Judy Blame & Buffalo scene

Phipps -Log Lady (Twin Peaks)

Wooyoungmi - Tilda Swinton as Orlando in Sally Potter’s 1992 movie 

Undercover - Throne of Blood by Akira Kurosawa

Études - Terminator 2

Études - Fantastic Planet 

Ann Demeulemeester - L'Après-midi d'un faune, as choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky

Lanvin - Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese