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Leonardo Aguirre menswear : Photographed by Tony Duran :Fashion Director Douglas VanLaningham : Model Jordan Coulter

Leonardo Aguirre is a rising talent on the design scene, based out of Los Angeles. He specializes in highly structured yet deconstructed clothing, with lots of intricate tailoring. There's a continuing thread of tension throughout his season less collections. Pieces are added to the continuous dialog, each a small fractal component of his overall vision.

Has the Givenchy man become a (fashion victim ) of his own instant success?

Givenchy! From womenswear to accessories to menswear to couture, its become such a monstrously influential thing, inciting critics, editors, stylists and the mad-for-fashion crowd to near riot levels of adoration. It certainly makes one stop to ponder. What started as random FB sparring with beloved TI contributor Louis (a/k/a Tricky Maus), swelled into his very insightful analysis of the Givenchy menswear ethos, a precise excision so critically sharp it brought a whole world of sense to the sensation.