How The Movies Influence Male Fashion

Suits and shirts designed for men may come in a variety of different cuts

, fabrics and styles, but the same cannot be said for the male casual wear market, which compared to the many options females have when it comes to casual wear, is left somewhat lacking. Men's causal wear still lacks the volume and variety of its female counterparts, but the creation of the young, fashion conscious metrosexuals did help the industry expand immensely.

Hollywood and film directors have also had to deal with a major shift in the movie-goers demographics. The recent decade has seen the rise of the male teen flicks, films written and directed to appeal to a male, teenage to early twenties aged demographic. This alteration in targeted demographic parallels the coming of age of the echo-boom generation, the largest generation since the baby-boom generation, and has lead to the box-office success of many teen male aimed films, most notably The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings and Transformers. These high-grossing films often lead to a heavy influx of fashion merchandise, such as bags and t-shirts, which are examples of films directly influencing style.

Equally, films directed in a more progressive and modern style, such as Kick Ass and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, have benefited from Hollywood's changed demographic. It's these more progressive, very teenage orientated films that seem to be almost altering the style of male fashion in a very notable way.

The fur hooded parka sported by the lead character in the Scott Pilgrim film is one example of fashion falling under cinematic influences, as once the parka had been shown on screen, many high street shops began selling similar parka coats, declaring them once more in style. Similarly, the rest of the casts' unique scruffy, causal, "hipster" styles also began to bleed into the high street shops, and onto the designers' runways.

Arguments have been made that it's not the fashion designers that take inspiration from the films, but rather the films stylists are very aware of what is a-la-mode, and so style the actors accordingly. Regardless of which is inspired by which, the fashion in films and the fashion on the runway seem to parallel each other very closely.

by: Shannon Holland.

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