No (fashion) country for old men -- Raf Simons, Givenchy, Lanvin, Hermes, Ann Demeulemeester and Galliano (International Herald Tribune)

A scattering of old men - like an elegiac reference to an aging baby boom generation - have been appearing throughout the long weekend of Paris menswear shows. But for all the nobility of these elder statesmen (usually of the arty kind), the focus of the 2009 season has been on virility and red-blooded masculinity that inevitably fades with age.