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The Kookiest Runway Looks From the Recent Men's Shows (New Pics!)

Whatever happened to the three-piece suit?

Whatever happened to the three-piece suit? While the men's collections shown over the past two weeks in London, Florence, Milan, and Paris featured plenty of office-appropriate suits and weekend-ready sportswear, they also included more than a few looks that defy categorization. Case in point: Where's the modern man supposed to wear the outlandish wooden headpieces that appeared at the MAN show in London? Would the multicolored shawl from Etro's show in Milan best complement jeans or wool trousers?

Here, a look at some of the men's ensembles that may have left viewers with more questions than answers.

Paris Fashion Week

The Men Take Over Paris Fashion Week

Men's Paris Fashion Week showed a mix of suave and avant-garde looks from favorites such as Maison Martin Margiela, Lanvin, Rick Owens, and Guillaume Henry, who debuted his first men's collection for Carven.
Paris Fashion Week Menswear 2012 2011-06-28 13:00:39

Men's Paris Fashion Week showed a mix of suave and avant-garde looks from favorites such as Maison Martin Margiela, Lanvin, Rick Owens, and Guillaume Henry, who debuted his first men's collection for Carven. In addition to slick suits and bright mashups compliments of John Galliano's new creative director, Bill Gaytten, we even peeped floral prints and skirt options from Givenchy. Yes, skirts. Flip the slideshow to see our roundup of men's Fashion Week in Paris.

Editor's Pick

2012 Spring Men's Fashion Week: The Good, Bad, and Questionable

Men's Spring 2011 fashion week is off to a fun start with designers, like Dolce & Gabbana, Etro, Burberry Prorsum, and Calvin Klein, showing off a motley of new prints and shapes for the dapper dude in your life.
Men's Fashion Week

Men's Spring 2011 fashion week is off to a fun start with designers, like Dolce & Gabbana, Etro, Burberry Prorsum, and Calvin Klein, showing off a motley of new prints and shapes for the dapper dude in your life. Whether it's a pair of bright orange cropped pants from Dsquared2 or a full-on leather suit from Versace, there's something for every stylin' personality. Of course, there were some questionable looks out there as well. Pink suits, anyone? Click the slideshow to see the latest good and questionable collections modeled by major eye candy. Is it just us, or it it getting hot in here?

Editor's Pick

The Male Models of Milan Fashion Week: Hot or Not So Much?

It's men's fashion week in Milan, which means a batch of really, really, ridiculously good-looking male models are working their fiercest looks.

It's men's fashion week in Milan, which means a batch of really, really, ridiculously good-looking male models are working their fiercest looks. And while most of our readers say they'd rather date a strong man than slim man, you can't argue that these professionally hot men make great eye candy. Take a look at some of the latest lookers from the runway, and vote on each: hot or not so much?

Trends

Why Americans Hated Facial Hair — Until Now!

Beards have gone in and out fashion since ancient Greece.

Beards have gone in and out fashion since ancient Greece. Peter I of Russia ordered all officials to shave their beards, and England's Henry the VIII imposed a tax on beards while growing one himself.

For the last 30 years, we've seen goatees and mutton chops and other styles I can't begin to name, but the full-on beard has been all but absent. It belongs to the mythical life of leisurely lit professors and, well, hipsters. Same thing. Now, with Jon Hamm and Robert Pattinson, the beard has gone mainstream. Why now? And where has it been?

Anthropologist Desmond Morris says shaving brings three advantages. First, it makes men look younger; second, it makes them appear friendlier; and third, it makes them appear cleaner.

I'm stuck on the cleanliness. The only thing Americans hate more than dirt is an unclean restroom. Just in case I'm wrong, here are four reasons beards have historically made Americans bristle.

  • Communists: If there's one thing communists have in common — besides everything — it's facial hair. From Karl Marx to Fidel Castro, the beard says "I don't buy razors."
  • Beatniks: Beards fell out of fashion after World War I. Soldiers shaved out of necessity — they needed to wear gas masks — but when the war was glorified by Hollywood, so were clean-shaven soldiers. Men remained smooth-faced for most of the 20th century; at least until the beatniks got subversive and stubbly in the early '60s.

Get the other two after the jump