lift and separate...

*Warning*

Readers with a sensitive disposition should look away now

So YSL Menswear 2014 !

There's no delicate way to put this

Next season it's all about the meat and two veg for Hedi...

The menswear shows these last couple of weeks have provided me with catwalk as comedy. They have cheered me right up and given me a good giggle.

Over at YSL, starry eyed young men with limited points of reference and wallets considerably larger than their little 27 inch waists, sat enthralled in the Temple of Tight Fit and watched a panoply of pubescent wraiths attempt to strut their stuff down the catwalk.

All of which was made more difficult, due to the fact that their genetalia had been deftly lifted and separated by trousers hoisted to heights that would make even Simon Cowell's eyes water.

In bum freezer jackets and with toes squished and squashed in winkle pickers, their little faces and concave chicken chests were pinched and hunched as they tried their very best to look menacing and rock and roll.

Bless.

Most of the reviews focussed on the view that it was a collection inspired by Teddy boys but I just kept thinking about a young Marc Almond.

That's when I wasn't thinking about a younger David Bowie or David Sylvian and those cheekbones you could cut cheese on.

But most of all, it came across to me a paean to the glorious Joe Strummer.