If a man who writes about clothing and keeps changing flavors, I had to consider all kinds of fashion-related fears. Will cut pants show me briefly? Was a yellow shirt out of me? Do I have to try to get the freight pants (again)?
But I did not expect this: what is the right amount of soil to expose to the world?
That was the question that I asked on Wednesday during the Diesel fashion show in Milan, which ended with three models (two men and a woman) in jeans so low that they revealed part of the coins of their buttocks. From the front you could not see what the jeans revealed, but while the models passed, the audience was treated to not a full moon-crush an eighth moon. To make it subtle, their upper posters were well cared for. I left the show and wondered if the jeans with their own personal hairdressing back work.
The moment was a provocation, certainly. But with such item, how porous is the line between Runway concept and retail reality? Model labels have previously tried the Peekabutt -pants. In 1993, Alexander McQueen generated a lot of attention with his couple of jeans. The South-the Equator-Broek from Mr. McQueen is an iconic design, if someone who was not worn much beyond the red carpet or the runway. And it must be said that Mr. McQueen has shown them on women.
Designers have previously sailed male bumsters. In 2015, the British label brother or sister presented his brutal “bum freezer” pants for men. Last year the French designer Ludovic De Saint Sernin created “butt split” leather pants for men. Neither of the designs seems to have ever achieved stores.
For his part, the diesel designer Glenn Martens was seriously about his Just-a-Smidge-rated jeans. In a preview for the show, Mr. Martens on that, because McQueen no longer makes bumsters, he saw the white space to “bring them back”. According to a diesel representative, the jeans will be produced.
Mr. Martens pointed out that the jeans had instasted Jockstraps to hold them in place. “It glues really well,” he said.
In one respect, the sight of these jeans was somewhat expected. Very radical pants, as every trend predictor with access to Bella Hadid’s Instagram will tell you, is back in style between Gen Z. Parts of the fashion world resemble … Well, a race to the bottom of the bottom. With his bumsters, Mr. Martens re -confirmed the outer limit.
Whatever he has touched, more than 30 years after Mr. McQueen enters the territory, is that the sight of a crack is one of the last physical areas that still has the power to scandalize the public.
Bare boxes are so common on runways in Milan that they hardly notice them anymore. (The nipple, people, it’s been Liberated.) To look more specifically at men’s clothing, DIGH-Flashing Five-inch Shorts have long gone Gone Bloomingdale’s mainstream.
But when I shared a video of the diesel jeans with my friends, the reactions from “a joke” varied to a fresh “come on”. When I asked one if he would consider trying them, he replied: “Not on my list of things I have to do today.”
