But there is also beautiful, lovely womenswear, and men very rarely get that sweet spot of a middle ground. Womenswear can be like this, too – heaven knows there is weird womenswear and boring womenswear. Two options lie before them: don’t bother appealing to the mainstream and instead make three-legged trousers and boiler suits, or make boring but nice jumpers and suits. Because men, by and large, are much more conservative about their dress than women and they have fewer garment options to boot this means there is only so much menswear designers can do. And there’s only so much mileage you get from those two qualities. Menswear, on the other hand, can only be two things: weird or boring. You want to know why womenswear gets more attention than menswear? Because womenswear can be fabulous, gorgeous, weird, ridiculous, breathtaking, game-changing, enviable, exciting, desirable, wonderful. So instead, I’ll give you the more prosaic answer. But I’m afraid that, if I did, I’d be found strangled tomorrow with a Fendi cashmere scarf. I wish I could tell you about the secret cabal of fashion gurus who conspire to make this happen, and the annual Bilderberg-style meetings that take place in a chic salon in Paris, where GQ’s Dylan Jones is ritually humiliated by Vogue’s Anna Wintour and Alexandra Shulman as he begs to be given more attention and they laugh in his face and spray his made-to-order Armani suit with Diet Coke (NO SUGAR!!!!!).

Womenswear does get more coverage than menswear, in this paper and everywhere else. Look, I could spin you a line about how, ACK-SHU-ALL-EE, the magazine now features menswear once every four weeks, which is much more than once in a blue moon, and the Guardian covers the menswear shows, and we do menswear features, and, and, AND …īut you’re right, of course.

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