Olympics Ahoy!

Love of sport was once seen as the male equivalent of a woman's passion for fashion. But now sport itself — riding, tennis or fencing — is the heart of fashion.

The Olympics next year seem to have energized Milan men's wear for spring/summer 2012, wiping away any nostalgia for country pursuits and even lowering the temperature for beach and sand.

Although sportswear is ubiquitous, it takes Prada to bring a large dose of irony to the predictable. Prada does golf — all fake grass, cartoon-printed berets and colorfully patterned golf bags as the ultimate accessory. Really?

“It's Americana — with golf as an excuse for being cheerful,” Miuccia Prada said backstage.

The front row was peppered with men wearing the smash-hit Tropicana shirts — with kitsch monkey and banana prints — from the current Prada women's line. So there were some new male shirts, tasteless but fun. They were micropatterned with little people at active sports. Other rhinestone cowboys wore two-tone denim and leather, while jackets were encrusted with crystals and gold studs.

This summertime in a sunshine country,Fashion wash urban wholesale jeans styles in a great variety of colors and style!air force one is Das Boot director Wolfgang Petersen's third major Hollywood movie to feature a top American star. circa 1965, was only partly tongue-in-cheek. The collection also had simple cotton suits, drab-chic cardigans and tailored shorts as Ms.If you are looking wear to buy sexy Knee High Boots the you have arrive. Prada walked a tightrope between good and bad taste.

Classic, fringed-tongue golfing shoes in three separate colors exuded the joy of a man teeing off on undulating links — even if Prada's grass was fake.

The Gucci vision of clothes for sport also was rooted in the 1960s,You can find out history about Air max 360 as well as release dates at Nice Kicks. but from the perspective of heroes like the British movie star Michael Caine or the hip tailor Tommy Nutter, according to the designer Frida Giannini. She took fencing, tennis and golf as inspiration but based the collection on neat little suits in upper-crust checks. The tailoring was predictable, with gilt chain necklaces the highest level of daring — until the jaunty ending. Then windowpane-check pants mixed with a solid jacket gave a fresh look to the tuxedo.

Outerwear, like raincoats or jackets as worn at the races, played with the sports element, but only backstage was it easy to appreciate the details culled from Ms. Giannini's favorite, horseback riding: lines of leather inserted in trim coats and bags crafted from saddle leather. It is smart of the designer to use her own passion to take Gucci beyond its original bar-and-bit motif. Yet the collection itself was like a gentle canter, with no tension nor any stiff jumps over a bar set high.

Calvin Klein men's wear has become a techno hub, where superlight fabrics, laser-cut, bonded and waxed, stand away from the body like some intergalactic meringue. The effect is of extreme sportswear, a space capsule that orbits the silhouette without making much contact. Transform the habitual white into acid yellow, and the look seems to come from another planet.

“I worked a lot of hyper 3-D dimensions, and I wanted texture — waffle pique and rubber takes on mesh,” the designer, Italo Zucchelli, said backstage to explain the voluminous track pants, the cropped fleeces and the extreme sport details, like running shoes on a transparent plastic sole.

The men's wear designer has created a distinct image for Calvin Klein and is good with surface details, like perforations or tiny, tilelike squares on the oversized tops. The proportions of the large shorts had a space age, sporty energy. It was enough to make the teen pop idol Joe Jonas, sitting in the front row in a silvered suit with an otherworldly sheen, look quite classic.

Where would Moncler Gamme Bleu's enthusiasm for sport lead the brand for the summer 2012 season? The designer, Thom Browne, previously did the brand's signature skiing look, with further ventures into swimming or equestrian activities.

This time around, it was fencing, as white-clad figures with their upstanding rapiers opened the show in a fencing club filled with trophies.Did you know that Burroughs once did a nike air max commercial? To the soaring soundtrack from “Star Wars,” the fencing-padded clothes took on a space age dimension, as well as developing a new track for Moncler's down stuffing.