2019 Is the Year Men Will Start Wearing Skirts, Says GQ

According to GQ, the trend is huge, and men in skirts is due to become a normal occurrence.

Early this week Brian Ahumuza broke the internet thanks to a giant skirt he wore with a shimmery silver jacket. The fashion maven was quick to defend his outfit choice which had caused an uproar on social media saying “I don’t remember seeing a single image of our Lord Jesus Christ in a pair of trousers, shorts or any of that “Male appropriate clothing”

Well, it looks like Ahumuza isn’t the only man you’re going to chance upon wearing a skirt. According to GQ, the trend is huge, and men in skirts is due to become a normal occurrence.

Perhaps you’re thinking: men? In skirts? Call me when people are wearing sleeves as scarves. (People are wearing sleeves as scarves!) But it’s not quite as wild as it sounds. Young brands like Luar and Gypsy Sport have been sending male-identifying models down the runway in skirts and dresses for a handful of seasons now, and the proliferation of gender-neutral silhouettes everywhere from Eckhaus Latta to Maison Margiela has made borrowing from the other side of the rack, as it were, more casual than ever. Rick Owens has been making, and wearing, skirts for years. Raf Simons did it a decade ago. And one of Craig Green’s signature pieces is a skirt-like pair of trousers. Yada yada yada!

But this past fashion week showed some new entrants in the men’s skirt playbook—loose shapes that are more like tubes or sacks of fabric than sexily draped garms. For Opening Ceremony, the visual artist Chella Man posed in a pea shoot-green sequin pencil skirt and strappy bow sandals, shirtless with a crossbody bag. (Love that—the purse strap looks like a glitzy bandolier.) Vaquera put a man in a brown velvet skirt and a pumped-up pilgrim collar, like a cool young dude found his younger sister’s problematic Thanksgiving pageant costume and said, “Let’s go for it.” And at Sandy Liang, who makes the fleece your fleece wants to wear, there was a black pleated skort with styled with a simple black T-shirt—NBD. There’s no shock value. It’s just another garment.