New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- It's been a fall-winter season of clean, spare and palate-cleansing clothing with an intense focus on details, going by the menswear presentations during Paris Fashion Week.

Kim Jones at Dior Men celebrated coquette-core of sorts, with models wearing semi-opaque bows as a blindfold along with borrowed-from-the-granny knitwear and cropped jumpers with bow detailing on the sleeves.

Informed by Dior's haute couture collection of fall 1954-55, the show opened with a voluminous pair of trousers that looked like a taffeta ball skirt. On closer inspection, though, it was neither a trouser nor a skirt but a coat worn backwards. Trompe-l'œil elements evoking a suprise have often appeared in Jones' works; for instance, ...