Fall lines already out?

It seems like with each passing year, the lines become more blurred on when one season starts and another begins. I used to think that it was absolutely preposterous when places would get all decked out with Christmas garb before Thanksgiving. Actually, I still kind of think that. Anyway, these days some places will shamelessly put out all of the angels, Santas, etc., well before Halloween even rolls around.

The same was always true growing up. When I would start to see ads for back-to-school sales between the Saturday morning cartoons, I would get all depressed, because I knew that it must be August and fall was right around the corner. Well, here it is July, and every mens’ magazine that Conde Nast publishes (and probably plenty of others that I don’t read) was chocked full of ads for various designers’ fall/winter lines.

I guess I’m ok with designers being a little bit anxious these days to start advertising that stuff. First of all, I haven’t had to go back to school in the fall for over five years now. Second, Fall fashion ads always provide mountains of fodder for blogging. So lets get is started early this year. One of my favorite items that I have seen so far, doesn’t even require any awkwardly posed models to showcase its absurdity (although, I would be very curious to see what they actually look like on a person’s face. I’m having a tough time visualizing it). I’m referring, of course to Martin Margiela‘s beautiful cyclops inspired baby shown below.

For only 390.00 Euros, they could be yours. Available in two colors, these bad boys are no joke (although it certainly appears otherwise). Then again, those French are crafty. Maybe the joke is on us. Like the electric fork, maybe MM put these glasses on the market just to see if anyone would actually buy and try to wear them. Maybe it is all just so that they can sit back and have a good laugh while wearing berets, smoking cigarettes with wands,  throwing back some escargot, stinky cheese and bordeaux.