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Six for the Season
Esquire Magazine, July, 2002
Photos by Francesco Scavullo

Esquire's crack fashion team combed the fall collections of our favorite designers to preview, with the help of Alias's Michael Vartan, the best of the new Fall trends.

1. Rustic

Some call it old-fashioned Americana, other note the influence of rugged, 
mid-century, Southern-Italian dress (think Michael Corleone in exile, 
marching the dirt roads of Sicily with his bodyguards). 
Either way, one of the seasons major trends longs for bygone days, 
with band-collared shirts, for three-piece suits, and that most manly of 
sweaters, the cardigan. Two-button single-breasted three-piece wool suit 
($1,610), cotton shirt ($235), and leather loafers ($390) by Dolce & Gabbana.


2. Mod

With a nod to the neat, trim style of the Sixties, this Fall's ultraslim-fitting 
suits and narrow jackets will continue to streamline Americas urban dwellers,
who are catching on to the well-cut clothing that their European counterparts 
have been wearing for years. Nylon blend trench coat ($1,385) 
cotton shirt ($335), wool trousers ($490), and leather lace-ups ($380) by Prada

3. Layered

The relatively new idea that clothing should look good and be comfortable 
gets a boost this season with soft, brushed fabrics cut nice and loose. So 
get yourself a good three-quarter wool coat that had some room inside, 
throw it over a wool biker-jacket-esque shirt thing, put your hands in your 
pockets, and smile - you've nailed the smart look of the urbane hipster. 
Wool-blend coat ($2,260), wool jacket ($1,440), wool trousers ($450), and 
leather boots ($510) by Jil Sander.


4. Flexible

We'd like to dispel a long-half myth about men's wear. Suits are not 
uncomfortable (cheap suits are) and this suit is made of wool jersey, 
so it feels more like pajamas than any business-casual ensemble you could 
concoct. Three-button, single-breasted wool-jersey suit ($1,800) and wool 
sweater ($425) by Georgio Armani; wool scarf ($275) by Armani Collezioni.


5. Roomy

After years of clothing shrinking closer and closer to the body, a handle 
of designers are ready to let loose again. Big flowy pants, with things like 
pleats, cuffs, and waists that actually reach the waistline, bust in on the 
skinny-suit party, and the shape and movement of them evoke plaxico burress 
after a game as much as Jay Gatsby at the garden party. One button single-breasted 
suede sport coat ($2,495), cotton V-neck shirt ($180), wool trousers ($420), 
and patent-leather lace-ups ($425) by Tom Ford for Gucci.


6. Ghetto Fabulous

There is one group of people that influences, more than it is influenced by, 
clothing designs: musicians. Designers have always tried to bring music's almost 
costumes to the masses-especially the folks at Versace. We recommend tempering 
the rock 'n' roll shirt and tie with a very quiet suit or you'll definitely wake 
the neighbors. Leather coat ($5,388), three-button single breasted wool pinstriped 
suit ($2,038), silk shirt ($442), and silk tie ($110) by Versace. 

Michael Vartan

You should know Michael Vartan from his role opposite the lovely, ass kicking 
Jennifer Garner on ABC's Alias; which returns next month for a second promising 
season. You might even know him from guest spots on Ally McBeal and Friends. 
But you decidedly should not know him from his starring role in the 1999 Drew Barrymore 
vehicle Never Been Kissed. The thirty-three-year-old French-born accent-free 
actor has been in the Hollywood game for only seven years, but thanks to a mug 
that the camera has taken to and a nice bit of action opposite Robin Williams 
and Connie Nielsen in the Sundance darling One Hour Photo out this month, he 
should be around for a while yet. Enough time, we hope, for us to forgive him for 
being from France.