[Editor's Blog] About Skirts

Dec 15, 2012

Good evening, this is a male editor. Since this is my first post, I thought I'd write about my fashion fetishes.

The intonation is taken from a certain manga in which all the characters wear the currently popular round glasses.

I love skirts.
I love skirts.
I love skirts.

I love long skirts.
I love ruffled skirts.
I love tight skirts.
I love culottes (※1).
I love circular skirts (※2).
I love gathered skirts.
I love pleated skirts.
I love tiered skirts.
I love mermaid skirts.

I love every single skirt style that exists on this earth, in Tokyo, Paris, London, Milan, New York, Shanghai, Lhasa, Bali, Dubai, Buenos Aires, etc.
I love walking in Jean Paul Gaultier's wrap pants (※3). With each step, I get excited by the way the fabric flutters at the front.
I love the hakama skirt from Yohji Yamamoto's 2004 Spring/Summer collection (※4). I missed out on buying it when it sold out at the start of production, and when I finally got it in the restock, I felt so thrilled.
I love the weight of the maxi quilt (※5) from Dior Homme's 2004 Fall/Winter collection. I'm even moved by its simple yet cool design, which consists of a 7-meter rectangular piece of fabric folded and fastened at the sides with belts.
I can't stand being the target of cold stares. When I go up and down stairs or to the bathroom, I hold the hem with both hands, and the feeling of being subjugated to my skirt when I'm done is amazing.

When I look at myself in the mirror wearing Yves Saint Laurent's high-heeled boots (※6) and a Jean Paul Gaultier maxi skirt with a flowing train, I feel like I'm ecstatic. I faint when I style my jacket, vest, and shirt with fluffy ruffles and pile them up and pile them up with panniers (※7).

It's so sad that skirts haven't become popular among modern men, even though they were worn in ancient times (※8). I love being crushed and annihilated by the bustle (※9) skirt bones. It's the ultimate humiliation to have my clothing restricted by common sense and customs (※10).

I want freedom in fashion, heavenly freedom in fashion. Yes, freedom.

This is a news site with people like you on the editorial staff, so please enjoy it.


※1. Also known as a divided skirt
※2. A circular pattern. 。 English: The bias part stretches, so the radius is shortened. *3. The left leg is left wide, and the excess fabric is tucked in front to create the illusion of a skirt. This was a groundbreaking item unveiled in Gaultier's first men's collection, "Homme Objet." It has been a Gaultier staple ever since. *4. It was shown in a joint show with Wise at the time. *5. The price was a whopping 500,000 yen. I couldn't afford it, orz. *6. It's named Johnny. Designed by Tom Ford. Heel height: 6.5cm. *7. The so-called 18th century Rococo style. Think Marie Antoinette. *8. Skirts date back to around 3000 BC. They originated from the loincloth worn by ancient Egypt. *9. A style with boning at the waist to add volume. Comme des Garçons reinterpreted this style to create a series of humped dresses in the Spring/Summer 1997 collection, "Body meets dress, dress meets body." It is full of the brand's signature, impossible features, such as a horizontal seam running through the fabric and continuous corner stitching.
※10. Yohji Yamamoto has also said, "Choosing clothes is the ultimate freedom."
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  • All personal belongings. Left: Jean Paul Gaultier (by Colin McDowell), Center: Catalogue of the Gaultier exhibition held in Montreal, Canada, Right: Men in Skirts (by Andrew Bolton)
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