The new trend of lace shirts for men Embrace your inner dandy

Anyone with a keen eye for patterns and patterns that are repeated will have noticed that lace or crochet shirts, decorated with lace, or even simple feminine blouses have slowly appeared among the looks of many of the men's collections of recent seasons. The most striking cases are certainly those of Saint Laurent and Celine, yet transparent tops and men's blouses have appeared almost everywhere: both from the side of emerging brands, as in the case of Casablanca, Vaderetro, Ludovic de Saint Sernin; while brands such as Gucci and Burberry had already introduced the style for almost five years. If in fact his most remarkable appearances were on the occasion of Bode's SS18 and Dior Homme's SS19 collections, the idea of a transparent men's shirt, built in lace or that had the delicacy typical of female blouses could be traced back to the first, fundamental show by Alessandro Michele and the so-called Pussy Bow Blouse that literally opened the tenure of the current Gucci creative director. But its presence in fashion could also be traced back to the Couture SS98 collection by Jean-Paul Gaultier, in which a male model paraded wearing a lace top.

Remarkably, the trend this year appeared last year in Supreme's SS20 lookbook and this year in Stussy's SS21, landing in streetwear - a sector that, like that of rap, still in 2021 has some problems with homophobia. Net of any consideration, however, the positivity of trends such as that of lace shirts for men is to question many of the preconceptions on which mainstream culture is still based, bringing new themes and stimuli for debate, but also highlighting the problems it must solve and the limits it must overcome.