Blurring the line. Fashion and masculinity, from the "Great Renunciation" to the metrosexual
As Jennifer Craik pointed out in her The Face Of Fashion: Cultural Studies In Fashion “the discourse surrounding men’s fashion resolves around a set of denials”. It is not by chance that one of the major turning points in the history of clothing, the Great Male Renunciation, evolves around men capitulation to adornment and beauty in favor of the new, sober monopoly of the suit.