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[caption id="attachment_85611" align="aligncenter" width="607"] J.W. Anderson Fall 2013 (Getty Images)[/caption]

J.W. Anderson's highly anticipated menswear collection for Fall 2013 debuted in London last week, garnering plenty of praise and a few raised eyebrows. The collection featured a succession of steely-faced men in knee-high frilled leather boots, ruffled neoprene shorts, tube tops, and, in one case, an industrial-wool dress. Fashion writer Jo-Ann Furniss cautions against harsh criticism of the designer's daring hemlines:

But write off Anderson as a mere provocateur at your peril; his agenda is more complex than that. The effeminacy of this collection—a kind of put-together sixties jolie madame made into a twisted jolie monsieur; think Séverine in Belle de Jour crossed with some of her kinky fantasy coachmen—is intended to reconfigure both menswear and womenswear, and to give a kick up the arse to the stale state of much of men's fashion at the moment. As he points out, "There is sometimes a very big difference between shopping and clothing."

Furniss continues:

And yet pull this collection apart and, as always, you do have something of both. In real life men do not regularly walk around derelict buildings at a stately pace, dressed in frilled knickerbockers to the sound of Angel Haze's hip-hop. But they do wear pinstriped, royal blue, and camel overcoats, and sometimes feel the adventurous pull towards double-face, lapel-less mohair coats in peach and baby blue (contrary to popular belief, men have sense enough to add their own trousers—they don't need a show to point it out). And there is always an appetite for the precision of great knitwear, such as his large-dot intarsia sweaters, or the homespun picket-fence jumper.

Love it or hate it, the handsome parade feels undeniably cool with the beats of Angel Haze overhead.

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