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More Pictures showing how the World would be, If women rules it. 

It's not the A bomb that has hit my house.  It's me tearing through my wardrobe in a nervous state of frustration and panic.  This is of course me, overreacting.  I'm merely trying to pack for Paris next week where I'll be attending some shows (what shows, I know not yet...all will be revealed when I arrive at the hotel to find either a nice stack of envelopes or absolute squat...).  Shows or no shows, packing for Paris is a nightmare as I currently have the most ridiuclous notion in my head that I have no clothes...  This is again complete lunacy.  What I probably mean when I wail 'I have no clothes' is 'I have no clothes that are suitable.' 

So some augmenting, changes, DIY fixes need to be made this weekend in a mad rush to cram a somewhat decent wardrobe for 6 days in Paris.  The augmenting part is not helped by the fact that I'm transfixed by these silver trousers from Topshop that look to be made of chainmail but have been described as 'silver sequin black jeans'.  This images occasionally flashes up on the Topshop website and has been in the press for a while, but as yet, I haven't spotted them in-store or online.  Daily Topshop checks are pretty sad and I find it a little shameful that I'm hankering for something that probably will be all over the streets.

Nonetheless, the ticking trouser-watch continues until about Monday when I'll have to forget about silver trew time in Paris.  Pity as I so wanted my legs to sparkle like the Eiffel Tower when those Rugby World Cup lights are sparkling.... (I'm constantly reminded of that line in the penultimate last episode of Sex and the City where Aleksander Petrovsky's daughter Clohé declares those lights as 'eeeedeous, just eeeedeous!'.

The heights for menswear are never going to be as ambitious nor is the range going to be as diverse as for womenswear.  That is just a fact, but that is no bad thing.  Especially when you concentrate on a component of menswear that is basically an essential and really push the boundaries of that item.  I cite Topshop's White Shirt project as a good example.  So moving on from that, what of the suit jacket?  My boyfriend's suit from Reiss was his post-uni buy to get him through those first job interviews and so associations of drudgery and duty can be binded to a suit.  But play with the suit jacket in its structure and detailing and you get something, not appropriate for the office but way more fun to wear outside of work.  Kyuin Antonio Chae's new menswear label Mammiferes de luxe presents his collection of 'Men's Researched Jackets' for SS08.  Hailing from Korea, he is now based in Paris and has previously assisted at the John Galliano and Dior studios.  

The name of the collection makes me think that Chae has analysed the jacket and its anatomy and has gone about, extending pockets, warping seams and adding volume, which is exactly what he has done.  As per what fine tailoring demands, nothing of course is random and it is all a 'researched' and calculated effort.  Who wants a bog-standard suit jacket when you can have the outcome of a jacket experiment?