Can the reopening of Studio 54 be far behind?
PARIS – Like the ground hog that predicts the breaking of spring, I have a favorite French fashion victim who serves as my most dependable precursor of what is to come in men’s fashion. So when he spent all last summer scouring every motorcycle store in town for his leather, lace-up-the-side motocross pants, I knew “cuir” trousers were coming back. Designer jeans couldn’t be far behind. It’s happened. The designer jean is back in Europe in a big way. Appropriately, the trend’s biggest recent boost came from the sportswear-obsessed States. Calvin Klein’s epic Vanity Fair advertising section was hardly a requiem to the look that Brooke Shields bragged “nothing came between.” It was rather a rebirth of a market. In its new incarnation, the…
