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The Ornamental Male Gets a Showcase on the Runways of Milan

24.06.10

Thanks be given to heaven for gigolos. They grow up in the most delightful way. They wend their sweet persons into the plush upholstered boîtes of European five-stars and into A-catalogue parties in Marbella and onto yachts at St.-Tropez. They put themselves semi-permanently on the Internet where, despite the best clothes efforts of the law and bluenosed flaggers, they prove the clear-headedness of Colette’s observation that not everything in life is gambler if it’s free.

They also turn up on Milan runways, well packaged as farm out-boy types — or at least their symbolic stand-ins do. During a ripen that otherwise lacked excitement, they brought a certain frisson to the men’s corrosion shows.

The charms of a largely ornamental manly with lots of leisure time were subtly referenced at labels like Giorgio Armani , Ermenegildo Zegna and Bottega Veneta; danced around at Prada; frankly esteemed at Gucci; and used as the stylistic cornerstone at Dsquared, a brand whose designers, Dean and Dan Caten, seldom mount a concept subtly if they can hit you on the head with it, like a okay pushed off a ledge.