WTFashion Week Recapped by Model Jayce Basques

When John Jannuzzi from Lucky Magazine tweeted that he wanted to see a model review fashion week, he might have been joking, but my instant reaction was “Why, that’s an excellent idea!”  And I knew just the guy to do it. Jayce Basques with Ford Models isn’t just extremely attractive, he’s a jokester who  writes e-mails in the most gentleman-like tone, wears a tie and suit to a BBQ if he pleases, and buys whiskey-soaked cigarettes but isn’t actually a smoker. Basically, he’s the kind of guy who’d rather poke some fun at WTFashion Week than take a stab at seriously reviewing the you-can’t-be-serious gear intended for men, and I commend that. Go, Jayce.

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Let me level with you: guy to guy, or guy to girl shopping for guy. When the common man had a vested interest in style, he dictated the trends and was much more integral in style’s evolution. Somehow, and I wouldn’t be able to say why, there got to be this odd aversion to the thrill of fashion. It is not economical because a fat pocketbook doesn’t always translate into a skinny tie.

Roll the tape.
As we all know, big textured jackets are fun; this ensemble however will not be immediately executable to your average Joe. It’s basically for, you know, the dude who can swing the shag carpet jacket with the crème turtleneck. It makes a statement, and it may even be practical above the Mason-Dixon Line. It’ll just require some imagination to seamlessly execute these digs if you don’t make a living making a statement.
The same holds true for this ensemble. As much as I appreciate it, I feel the common sentiment in these labels’ design circles is often, “How do we do something different?” when I’d much rather have them ask, “How do we do something better?”

We’ve apparently been relegated to accessories.

This Abercrombie carpet Christmas nightmare only makes sense walking next to the girl. Perhaps it is revenge for decades of our fathers’ misogyny. I’m not saying it wouldn’t look good on a confident chap, just that he’d undoubtedly garner the snickers of several men and women at any given social setting. It’d be a bold statement, one befitting of men who brazenly rush headlong into burning buildings.
  Ol’ Saint Nick’s bad-ass nephew: “Kevin.”
Yo Michael Kors, I’m really happy for you, and I’d let you finish but Carlos D from Interpol had one of the best holster-belt thingies of all time!
I can count on one hand how many guys I know that would wear this Rochambeau look. None of them look like this, they’d likely only wear it once or twice and it’d be invariably in a dark room.  The future-gothic-space-peasant thing is so 2067 via 1972.
Aww I love that band…You know? Chuck Manson and the Flock of Pearl Divisions.
Again… If “different” is the name of the game then mission accomplished, but we’re neglecting to acknowledge that frilly and dainty will get press on the runway but passed on the discount rack. The material is thin and the cuts slightly feminine. Accentuation of the feminine works, although so does salt and no one wants a salted salt sandwich.
We can all only hope to someday walk around the Upper West Side in a pair of $300 socks.
In the future, all priests will be homeless.

All in all, the essential element of one’s own budding fashion sense is, after all, that element of confidence. That confidence comes from knowing that one’s clothes truly reflects their inner landscape.

Check out more Jayce here. Images via News Observer. Photo of Jayce by William D. Walsh.