Paris Men's Fall 2015 Fashion Week highlights: Rick Owens bares it all for fashion

In the recent Paris menswear shows, we saw many astounding collections including crotch-baring moments at Rick Owens and beautifully demonic collection at Givenchy.

Following the success of the Milan's menswear shows, we flew off to Paris, the last stop of Men's Fall 2015 Fashion Week. True to its reputation, Paris never disappoints with its arsenal of designers and brands that has knocked the socks out of us.

This season in Paris, we have witnessed many headlining moments including a crotch-baring moment at Rick Owens, student hazing inspired menswear by Raf Simons and Galliano's menswear debut in Maison Margiela.

Full frontal coverage for Rick Owens
US designer Rick Owens created a category all by himself by sending out three male models with their penises exposed by cutaway robes. The taboo-busting garments are unlikely go mainstream, and many veteran fashionistas thought them too blatantly calculated for controversy. But they did succeed in giving Owens more international media coverage than all the other designers combined.

Maison Margiela's Galliano menswear debut
After debutting in an off-schedule 'Artisanal' haute couture show in London, the French label has cut down its name from Maison Martin Margiela to Maison Margiela. Now, the newly revamped label is ready to wow the fashion industry with its new creative director John Galliano. The collection cleverly balances the line between Margiela staples, including deconstructed pieces like sawn-off sleevless trenchcoats and painted leather boots, and Galliano's trademark exuberance.

Out to the suburbs with Raf Simons
Belgian fashion legend Raf Simons pulled Paris's fashionistas out to the Parisian suburbs to delve back into the past with a retro, rebellious college student-inspired show. Wearing greasy center-partings, the models sported white lab coats covered in graffiti and slogans (a nod to traditional Belgian student hazing), while knit tank tops came artfully torn and repaired with intarsia patterns, and corduroy and jersey pants broke low onto sneakers with a wide flare.

Kris Van Assche dresses the modern man in Dior
A night at the opera: what's a modern man to wear? If he's dressed in Dior's latest, unveiled at the Paris fashion week, it'll be a chic evening suit -- rejuvenated with snazzy sneakers, flashes of techno-colour and stylish doses of denim. That was the autumn-winter collection rolled out late Saturday by Dior's men's artistic director Kriss Van Assche.

But look closer, and many sported -- or were made of -- denim instead of fine wool, a tribute to the ubiquity of jeans today, from the office to increasingly more formal dos.

Darkest obessions of Ricardo Tisci at Givenchy
Over in Givenchy, the brilliant Ricardo Tisci showcased a collection of demonic inspired looks filled with red and black color scheme, echoes of voodoo and candomblé, and its catwalk of red glitter. Topping that of were the array of gothic extremities makeup created by Pat McGarth to reflect the beautiful, yet fiendish collection.

While it might be sinister to some, none could deny that beneath all the dramatic highlights were wearable clothe that every dapper dan would die for – proving to all that Givenchy is indeed an obsession.

(Source: AFP Relaxnews; Photos courtesy of all respective brands)

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