TOM FORD VS THOM BROWNE
EVEN if you spend a lot of time around fashion and the endearing nut jobs who create it, this question comes up every so often: Who is that person? By that person, one is referring to an imaginary consumer, a man who designers have decided should wear skintight flood pants and a Pee-wee Herman jacket barely grazing his behind. Who exactly is the boy/man fashion is crazy about lately, the guy wearing tennis shorts or onesies or the sort of jacket an Etonian whom I know claims was called a bum-freezer when he was at school?
Who, in other words, is the Thom Browne man? Guy Trebay gets to the bottom of one of menwear's most burning quandaries and more in today's NYT. Read the full story here.
