Milan Menswear Fall 2011 - Costume National

Milan menswear fashion week is on and I'll try and give you a taste of it ...as much as i can .....
We start with Costume National. As always the color palate at CN is dominated by the dark colors with lots of black, and dark grays and a touch of mustard electric blue. Great motor cycle jackets in wools and beautiful long coats mixing wools and leather were among my favorite pieces supported by light knits in two color tones that looked luxurious and very sophisticated.

Fall style - The motorcycle jacket

Pendleton at Opening Ceremony

I got my first (and actually my only one so far) motorcycle jacket about 20 years ago in India out of all places.... I was traveling there after my army service  and one day i went into a leather store in Delhi and had my eye on this black leather asymmetrical motorcycle jacket but since i was a tourist the guy at the store thought i should cover his annual sales and gave me a price that scared me away, but as i was making my way out of the store he kept on dropping the price to about fifth of the original offer ....so i went back and tried it..... the true is that i really had no intention of getting this jacket and that's why i walked away....but i guess it had my name on it!The motorcycle jacket got its big break into the fashion books after Marlon Brandon wore it in 1953 as Johnny Strabler in the movie The Wild One.

Marlon Brandon in The Wild One

Shortly after and over the years it was adopted as the classic rock n roll jacket portraying a rebellious image with a  rockish/punk/metal, bad boy bad ass feel (which off course made almost every