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On Saturday, his father was tie-less as he sat front row at the Dior Homme show -- a fact that did not go unnoticed by the fashionista crowd. "It's the weekend," whispered one.
Silence descended on the vast domed tennis club, as the first suited model stepped out with a tie, dark and slim, like the majority of the looks sent out by the house's young Belgian designer Kris Van Assche.
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And where there were no ties there was often the suggestion of one -- in a strip of silk scarf visible under the collar at Paul Smith, or a crossed kimono-style silk shirt at Louis Vuitton.
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"I have worn one all my life -- starting at school," he told AFP after the Dior Homme show. "I can't stand people looking dishevelled -- especially after age 35!"
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"For a few years now older men, businessmen have started going without a tie to look younger," the luxury industry consultant Jean-Jacques Picart told AFP on the sidelines of Kenzo's menwear show, which worked a generous helping of ties into a look billed as urban, cool and "on the go."
"So it's only normal for young people to reclaim them"
The problem with going tie-less, said Picart, is that most shirts are designed for a tie. You have to choose a collar that buttons very high on the neck for it to look right -- and there are not many of those out there.
Plus, past a certain age, the "neck can look a bit scrawny -- a bit like a chicken or turkey's neck" -- a powerful argument in his view for putting the tie back in its place.
At Lanvin on Sunday there were no ties until the finale, but there were neckties for all the evening looks -- save for a single bow-tie, a nod to the personal style of designer Alber Elbaz.
"Ties are a part of the suit that is coming back," Elbaz confirmed. "Not the ties of our fathers or grandfathers. They are worn by a new generation that comes from sport, new technologies.
"It's neither the world of the dandy nor of the boardroom."
Source-AFP
