Saint Laurent offers a radical proposition: thigh-high boots for men.
There is only one way to begin talking about the Saint Laurent men’s fashion show on Tuesday night: the boots.
Almost every model who looped around the runway wore some incomparably altitudinal thigh-highs.
These were no meek Chelseas or mere Timberlands. They were a statement in black gloss, calling to mind motorcycle cops and S&M leather daddies. At first pass, I mistook them for gothic fishing waders. On 5-foot-9-inch me, the boots would have encroached well into my gut. The weightiness of the boots lent each model a pronounced walk. A few trooped creakily (picture a suit of armor twitching to life),
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