Above: Tim Groen: Will Lewis, New York, 2010
“Shaving didn’t become the norm in the Western world until the 1920’s”, Will Lewis says, to make the point that “obviously the suit was predominantly worn by men with beards.” We’re discussing the somewhat square and ethnocentric reaction to his presence in a certain popular American catalog. “…Full beards on men in fashion shows just make us giggle,” Cathy Horyn recently wrote in The New York Times, another reference to a Will Lewis appearance; this time on the Jean Paul Gaultier runway.
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