Men's fashion is on the cusp of something so huge it's almost impossible to tell just how far it's going to change. Men are flooding into the market space and luxury designers are rushing to fill the exploding demand with all sorts of challenges to the traditional fare for men – from gender neutral suit-dresses to flamboyant collages of color. It's nice to find a respite in the spring-summer 2014 collection in Paris – a nice, pleasant calm before the storm to come.

After Milan, the men’s fashion season continued with the spring-summer 2014 collections on show in Paris.

The house of Valentino looked to uniform for inspiration this year, as designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli created their look with patchwork, statement pockets, leather details and military workwear.

Maria Grazia Chiuri said: “The specific inspiration of this collection was about a uniform. But not only one uniform, uniform in general. Worker uniform; also school uniform. Because in some way we believe that the uniform is a sign for made the people at the same level.” (Read More)