Designer Antonia Marguerite was the first designer to show menswear looks at San Francisco Fashion Week. Luckily Marguerite’s vision for S/S 07’ is fits with emerging trend of the Menswear collections in Milan, Paris and Rio, the darker the palette the better. Her inspiration for her first menswear collection was a play on hot rock stars and their sexual allure over women. The only downside to her vision was she focus on rock stars of the 80’s compared to sexiness of rock stars of the 70’s or 90’s. The end result was a parade of several black leather looks. One of the strongest looks he showed was a sleeveless black leather jacket. The shoulders of the jacket were caped and the wide lapels done in leather are attached to inside of the jacket. So the front of the jacket lays open like lapels with the black leather lapels lying on top. The jacket is cropped of above the waist and She lined with a black/white/red.

Marguerite took the new dark palette in mind with her collection; sadly she fell for the skinny pant trend, which is slowly starting to disappear from the runways. The must have piece from her collection was the sleeveless black leather and black cotton hooded jacket. Antonia detailed the jacket with a red zipper, wide lapels and the hood is lined with the black/red/white print she used on all her looks. While Antonia was trying to achieve a complete rocker look with this collection, her outerwear pieces were the highlight. She certainly has the ability to do menswear although I think she needs to really stand back and make sure the look she is creating is not too out there, men scare easily. Overall Antonia showed three really strong and focused looks. Bravo Mademoiselle Marguerite!

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