Designer to Watch: Kermit Tesoro

Kermit Tesoro

Debut Menswear Coll 

Fall 2012

Photography  Mark Buenaobra

Model Tim Villareal


Lookbook

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Inkarcerating

Runway

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JP on Fashion Speed

Other rising designers

Brian Evalle

Jennifer FM Murray

Safar Tokur

Erïk Bjerkesjö

Ross Williams

Molly McClutcheon

Nadav Fink 1 2

Get Well, Karl!

Karl

Philippine designer and blogger Karl Leuterio, footwear designer for Gold Dot and founder of ParadigmShift Clothing, is one of my favorite daily visits. I've learned from his own personal blog, Inkarlcerating, that he has recently suffered a knee injury, so I'm wishing him a prompt and complete recovery.

I hope he'll soon be able to run and jog again, activities he misses so much. 

Even in those heavenly high-heeled wedges of his!

Get well soon, Karl!

http://www.inkarlcerating.com/

Reality Show

By popular demand, once again I'm posting not about runways and models,  but about "real" free-stylers showing off their creativity out in the "real" world.  

True, many of these "reality models" are somehow related with the fashion industry, while others are artists or show-business people, but some are simply the "normal", everyday dude who, for once (or twice) felt like letting his creativity flow fashion wise. 

Philippines 

At this point, young photographer (and blogger) Karl Leuterio is well known to most of my followers, as he has been the source of many of the images I've posted. 

A very inventive young man, he alters and upgrades his clothing in the most unusual ways.

He might give you some ideas!

http://totallyinkarlcerating.blogspot.com

Switzerland

Patrick Kieselteine is an extremely creative artist who has no problem sharing skirts with his girlfriend Christine. They had both striven to free men from the "trouser tyranny" for many years. For those of you who can read German, his blog is really worth visiting:

http://kieselsteine.blogspot.com/

France

Yolos (Karl Beauclair) is a free-styler based in Nantes, France. He is the moderator of the Facebook group Pour la Désexualisation des vêtements ("For the de-sexualization of clothing").  

If you follow my blog, you might also be interested in joining his group (you don't need to read any French to enjoy his pics!). 

In any event, he does what he preaches. And he shares lots of stuff with his gilrfriend.

Spain 

Photo Anna Sparkling

Model Guille Chipironet

Style Sebastien Montello

Speaking about Facebook groups: This pic comes from Hombres con tacones ("Men in heels") . I know this "posed" and carefully styled photograph can hardly be called "street fashion", but I understand Guille dresses quite  creatively in his daily life as well, pink stilettos and all.

Czech Republic

Colin is a wonderful artist. You can appreciate his artwork at 

http://www.colinrose.eu/. 

In the middle of his many painting activities, his exhibitions, his classes, and his love for contemporary classical music, he still allows himself some spare time to design his own clothing. 

We are both members of the Skirtcafe, a meeting place for men who wear skirts:

http://www.skirtcafe.org

Canada

Last, but not leats, this uncredited picture shows a man wearing a beautiful black pleated skirt in the streets of Toronto. 

I've re-bloggged it from

http://www.forestcityfashionista.com/

Blogger update

You may legitimately wonder about us, male fashion bloggers who promote male fashion freedom in every sense (from skirts to high heels). 

How do we dress in real life?, you may ask.  Do we act as we preach? Do we actually go out wearing, say, a frilly dress and wedge sandals?

That is a perfectly logical question to ask and, of course, I don't have an answer. 

I can only respond for my own style, which has  not surprisingly been labelled as pretty extravagant by conventional standards.

But I do have some pics of my colleagues and other fashion people. 

I've come across them while surfing around the net. 
These are only a few of a rather large amount of pictures I encounter every day. 
Maybe things are changing after all. 

Bryanboy

By now a classic fashion blogger in spite of his youth, Bryanboy came across a pair of Peter Jensen printed low-crotch trousers and a wonderful Mawi London necklace to go with them:

Yolos

Yolos from France is the moderator of the Facebook group "For the desexualization of clothing" (Por la desexualization des vestements) Even if we don't understand French, let's join in! Just for the fun of it!

William

An original designer and couturier himself, William's style is as unique as his creations. Here he is out for a party, his hair just trimmed and dyed, and a huge necklace hanging over his chest (his own design, one presumes)

Check out Black List, his blog. 

Below,  he designed and built this absolutely marvelous dress for a girlfriend, but he is wearing it himself! Now, that's a try-out not every dressmaker can perform... you have to have that body!

Heeled boots are a must with such attire, and the wig adds up to the looks.

Jujiin

Jujiin Samonte, TheGuy who Cried Chos, caught fooling around with extreme transparent platforms 
(and his sister's dress?) 
I'm pretty sure he doesn't wear them to class, or... does he?

Karl

"u laugh at me coz im different.. i laugh at u coz u all look the same", says Karl at Inkarlcerating. That could be a motto of many of us!

He has pinned a cross over his Fruit of the Loom tank shirt for this punk style that includes leather cuffs and, of course,  high heeled boots

Me

I'm actually just re-blogging what was already out there but, all  the same, it's not fair for me to "expose" all those fellow bloggers to the world without at least giving you a peek of my own style.

I know I don't have the good looks of those much younger, handsome bloggers, but after all I'm promoting fashion freedom for every male, not only the younger ones.

So here I am, taking a break in a beautiful Balinese sarong, and gold & silver sandals.