Todd and friends

My favorite part of fashion shows is when, at the end, the designer shuffles out onto the runway.

If it's one of the cool, bleeding-edge guys, invariably he looks as if he just woke up.

I love it, the juxtapostion of the exquisite clothes and girls wearing them with

the physical form and garb of the man who created the beauty around him.

In fact, I'd go so far as to formulate bookofjoe's rule of fashion designers:

if the designer's not disheveled, look elsewhere for what's next.

For those non-fashionistas who somehow stumbled on this cutting-room-edge site by accident, the designers pictured above (from the top down, with a creation of each below his picture) are Todd Oldham, Isaac Mizrahi, and Alexander McQueen.