Tales from Fashion Week: Nautica

By CC Staff

This look is from the Nautica Fall 2007 collection…show your boyfriends!

Bright and early this Wednesday morning, fashion’s bleary-eyed elite (and me) invaded New York’s Bryant Park for Mercedes Benz Spring 2008 Fashion Week.

Phew.

My first stop? Nautica.

I know, ladies. It’s not a women’s line, but trust me when I say that my report on this specific show is worth it.

The theme? Hot male models with no shirts on.

Okay, no. I’m no fashion maven so to me the theme was a kind of bathrobe/bathing suit/sports jacket thing. But fashionable nonetheless!

If this collection was any indication of what’s to come for men’s wear, expect to see your best guys wearing the following:

Those Ray Ban sunglasses every celeb has been sporting all summer? Expect to see these classic frames everywhere.

They aren’t just sunglasses anymore, clear lenses make these frames totally wearable 24/7.

Vests, vests, and more vests. Nautica was all business. That said, don’t expect your boy to don cufflinks next spring. It was complete desheveled organized chaos.

Bathrobes. I know, weird, right? They were all over the Nautica runway! Perhaps I’m just not interpreting what the label was going for, but I don’t think it matters. Bare-chested Ken doll look-alikes were pairing robes with nautical (of course) swimming trunks which were fitted to the body…but not in a Speedo kind of way.

Fashion-wise, boys are going to be expected to look groomed and put together (aren’t they always?)…that is if you know a guy into the preppy look.

You know who’s into the preppy look? Lance Bass.

I know because as I was scanning the crowd I was suddenly taken aback by a mass of orange amongst the alabaster faces of native New York show-goers. And there he was, Princess Frostylocks.

Here’s the rundown:

He was orange. He was wearing all black (how positively chic of him!). He was sitting next to a bubbly looking blonde who kept giggling at all of his little comments throughout. He was staring at all the half-naked models (it’s okay, I was too). He looked pretty gay.

All in all, he was like, the one celebrity there amongst, what looked like, every important fashion-man in the universe. And I can’t lie, all I kept thinking was if it was 2000 I would have been sh*tting my pants. Alas, it is not 2000, and my pants are fine. I guess after storming the world boyband-style the last thing left to do is score some fashion show tickets and work it. Which he certainly did, with permanent scowl on his face and everything!

What a bitch.

Lance can have his model boys…as long as I can keep looking.

Up next: L.A.M.B. and Venexiana tonight!

See you later with a full report this evening!