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Keith Richards for Louis Vuitton

Dior Homme S/S08

After the presentation last fall, I had reservations about Kris Van Assche's first Dior collection. It just seemed like a bunch of giant pants and white shirts. Then the collection showed up on eluxury. I want it all, but I would settle for the bomber jacket and the trench.

Mmm. I wasn't so sure about the fall collection either. Does this mean we have many good things to look forward to, come September?

Burberry Prorsum F/W08

While I was not too impressed with the Prorsum collection shown for S/S08, Bailey shows his strength lies in making clothes for cooler weather. I loved the F/W07 collection, and he managed to do it again for next fall. As always, the outerwear was impressive. In particular, I love the first look's topcoat. Lots of deep burgundies and navies are featured throughout, which I much prefer over the neutrals that tend to appear in fall collections. The kind of bell-bottom-ish pants seen here keep the skinny leg that we've come to see, well, everywhere, but have given it a spin by flaring the leg. Christopher Bailey's pant brings a much needed change to the skin-tight silhouette. If Prada's turbans were a must-have for the ladies this past spring, and if Bailey has his way next fall, all men will be wearing a skull-cap. And although this is rarely said in a mens show, the bags were incredible. Burberry have stepped up their accessory game for the ladies, and it's beginning to spread into its mens collection.

For some reason, men.style.com are only featuring 14 of the 42 total looks. Check here for a video of the entire show.

Fashion Week begins today in Milan. I love fall and winter clothes, so I'm a little excited. Get ready!

If only I spoke French...

And if only it was going to be available in the States. Another fashion documentary, this time about the man, Karl. Lagerfeld is another designer whom I am kind of obsessed with. He's crazy! And I love watching these creative people doing their thing. Maybe Colette will have this? Hmm.

NY Fashion Week begins tomorrow.

Who I'm excited to see:

- Band of Outsiders (Tuesday - presentation)
- Rag and Bone (Wednesday - runway)
- Thom Browne (Thursday - runway)
- Ralph Lauren (Saturday - runway)
- 3.1 Philip Lim (Sunday - runway)

Despite the huge numbers of designers showing over the next week, I'm into only a few. Milan and Paris showed S/S08 earlier this summer, so we're really catching the tail end of the men's designs for next season.

I was only sort of impressed by the Europeans. I was disappointed by Chris Bailey, whose Prorsum line for Burberry seemed rather strange, and I tend to love most things they do over there. I enjoyed Balenciaga, but that may be because I love Ghesquiere's work for his women's line. There were a few other bright spots, Gucci comes to mind, but nothing particularly outstanding.

Photos: Burberry Prorsum, Balenciaga, Gucci -- courtesy men.style.com

I'll be more interested in the F/W08 collections we'll see early next year, particularly that of Kris Van Assche for Dior. I quite like his own line, but was a little weirded out by his designs for Dior. Obviously, he's not Slimane so his work will be different, but I am so used to seeing the Slimane silhouette, etc. However, Van Assche's take was welcome because he did his own version of Dior rather than a Hedi-redux, which he rightfully should as their new taste maker.

We'll see what NY has in store for us.