You wouldn’t have known that Azrouel transferred his RSVP list to his in-house publicist two days before his men’s presentation, except that had they kept Kelly Cutrone in charge, she would’ve had the foresight to arrange the models so they weren’t clustered in the back of his Meatpacking boutique. Azrouel wouldn’t comment on the switch from People’s Revolution to his in-house gal, but steered us in her direction for questions. “It’s really about the clothes, not anything else,” she tells us.
But for us, it’s not about the clothes. At least, not his Fall collection. We found the “Slub Knit Longjohn Pant” to be more of an undergarment for a phony skier than a casual pair of men’s “pants”. The “Distressed Shearling Pieced Coat” looks like it originated on Orchard Street, and his “Wool Argyle Assymetrical Top” has too many adjectives associated with it.
Bottom line: There’s one pair of pants we deemed wearable, the “Micro Houndstooth Trouser”, and that’s only because the houndstooth is so mirco, you can’t even tell it’s houndstooth.