Fashion high

The Australian: Hello boys, here's the cool look for the office :

"Committing what is seen as a fashion crime, his gangly models paraded grey business suits of tailored jackets, matched with knee-length Bermuda shorts and knee-high socks."

Alexander McQueen has always been a bit of an iconoclast. Enough to make us think outside the square for want of a better phrase. I wish I had the pictures. If you read about the outfits in this piece, it's a real hoot. I think it's about challenging the establishment rather than setting a new fashion trend in business wear. Time to liven the corporate lot up, maybe. Don't know. I was in Sydney this morning and the Japanese businessmen who had flown in were impeccable in their dark suits, their neat haircuts and their white shirts with dark ties. They looked like they were serious about their business and took a pride in who they were. The Australians were very trendy with their perfectly globbed and blobbed hair, their crisply ironed light blue, dark blue or grey shirts and their artistic ties. They looked and sounded relaxed,capable and full of good humour. Then there were the European businessmen - very dapper. Very comfortable stances and relaxed green/greys and fawns and whites. A sort of military look in a way but very clean cut and switching easily from French to English to their own language. I don't know that any of the groups would want to follow the path of gingham and squashed coke cans. Probably too grown up for that!