Lanvin just steal the show at Paris Fashion Week
Creative director Alber Elbaz and menswear designer Lucas Ossendrijver paired with short shorts or casual tailored jackets, blouses and shirts worn with slim ties.
Considered by some as nothing more than underwear, short shorts - good legs and a degree of bravery dress need - were also prominent on the catwalks of Milan Men's early June
"The three rules with shorts is that they need to be adjusted, are not collapsed remotely and cut a few inches above the knee," Esquire magazine recently told his readers, without proffering advice on the short variety.
Others see the Lanvin show, which was held in the elegant surroundings of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, contain-up shirts, ditches cherry and dark blue and soft, sleeveless tops and tapered pants.
The first reaction was generally positive with the industry magazine WWD praise "precious fabrics, often women and exquisite range". The website nowfashion.com called "stimulus if somewhat schizophrenic collection in their execution."
"Elegant in the extreme," said British GQ on Twitter, while UK tradition Brand Dapper England commented: "shorts with blazers and socks."
Saturday Show Kris Van Assche for Dior Homme also examined the question of formality and informality in men's fashion.
Shorts Suit - provide flexibility "of the area of ??the meeting room" - dominated the collection of Belgian designer.
Van Assche went longer, tailored shorts, summarizes the occurrence as "Smoking sports festival."
Five days later on Sunday menswear shows wrap with a second highly anticipated Saint Laurent by French designer Hedi Slimane and skinny jeans aficionado collection.
Versace takes over Sunday night 2013/winter haute couture for fall 2014.
Four days of haute couture shows begin in earnest on Monday with the collection of the season - Christian Lacroix comeback tribute for the late Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
Lacroix, hailed by fashion editors in the 1990s after the creation of the first couture house to open in a quarter of a century in 1987, lost his fashion house in December 2009 after running out of millions of dollars in debt.
In his first collection in four years Lacroix will present 18 new interpretations of Schiaparelli revived models for the fashion house.