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Skirts for men

Why More Men Are Embracing Skirts: A Guide to Styling Our Latest Collection

Men’s fashion is continually evolving, with skirts for men becoming a powerful symbol of modern masculinity and self-expression. At Haruco-vert, we are at the forefront of this movement, offering a curated selection of men’s skirts that are both bold and versatile. Whether you’re venturing into this trend or expanding your collection, our men’s skirts provide the perfect mix of style and comfort.

Imagine a wardrobe that not only reflects your unique style but also challenges the conventional norms of fashion. Skirts for men are more than a statement, they’re a revolution in how we perceive and wear clothing. Ready to redefine your style?

Explore Our Men’s Skirt Collection
1. Skadi Skirt: The Asymmetrical Edge

The Skadi skirt is known for its sharp asymmetrical cut, giving it a distinct and dynamic look. This skirt exudes a contemporary, avant-garde aesthetic that is perfect for making a bold statement. It has an adjustable pull-up feature on the longer side to create a different look. Style the tough yet chic asymmetrical men’s skirt with a fitted black turtleneck or a minimalist shirt to accentuate its unique silhouette. Pair it with chunky boots or sleek sneakers to maintain a balanced, edgy look. For cooler weather, layer it with a long, structured coat that complements the skirt’s angular design.

2. Shoy Skirt: The Sporty Essential

The Shoy skirt, made from high-quality sportswear fabric, combines comfort with modern style. Its sleek design and material make it ideal for both casual and semi-formal settings. Pair the straight sporty men’s skirt with a simple t-shirt or a slim-fit hoodie for a relaxed, athletic vibe. Complete the look with sporty sneakers or casual loafers. For an urban twist, consider layering with a bomber jacket or a windbreaker, enhancing its sporty aesthetic.

3. Shango Skirt: The Structured Statement

The Shango skirt features unique grommet and cord construction, giving it a robust and structured appearance that is both functional and stylish. This skirt is perfect for those who appreciate detailed craftsmanship in their wardrobe. Style the avant-garde men’s skirt with a simple, fitted top to keep the focus on the skirt’s intricate design. Combat boots or chunky shoes will balance the strong presence of the skirt. Add a leather jacket or an oversized blazer to enhance its edgy, structured appeal.

4. Signy Skirt: The Elegant Versatile

The Signy skirt combines elegance with versatility, offering a sleek and refined silhouette that easily transitions from day to night. This side split men’s skirt with front pleats is a must-have for any wardrobe, providing endless styling possibilities. Pair it with a sharp button-down shirt and a tailored blazer for a professional look, or choose a relaxed sweater and ankle boots for a more casual ensemble. Accessories like a statement belt or bold jewelry can further personalize and elevate your outfit.

5. Styx Skirt: The Artistic Drape

The Styx skirt stands out for its fluid draping, adding a touch of artistry and movement to your outfit. Its design creates a flowing silhouette that captures attention and exudes elegance. It has an adjustable pull-up feature on the longer side to create a different look. Style the asymmetrical cotton men’s skirt with a fitted top to contrast the drape and highlight the skirt’s fluid lines. Heeled boots or sleek sandals are ideal for elongating the legs and complementing the skirt’s dramatic style. For a bolder look, layer with an oversized coat that matches the skirt’s flowing nature.

6. Sarpedon Skirt: The Utilitarian Chic

The Sarpedon skirt blends functionality with fashion, featuring a utilitarian design with practical elements like pockets. Ideal for those who appreciate both form and function, this kilt inspired men’s skirt can be styled with a fitted, neutral-toned shirt to keep the look streamlined. Pair it with combat boots or high-top sneakers for an urban edge. A utility jacket or bomber jacket can further enhance the skirt’s utilitarian aesthetic, making it a practical yet stylish choice for everyday wear.

7. Shoki Skirt: The Detailed Statement

The Shoki skirt is a unique piece, featuring grommet and cord details that add both visual interest and a touch of industrial flair. This black side split men’s skirt is perfect for those who enjoy incorporating distinctive design elements into their wardrobe. Pair the Shoki with a fitted top to draw attention to its intricate details. Combat boots or chunky footwear will complement its edgy vibe. To complete the look, add a leather jacket or an oversized blazer for a balanced, fashion-forward outfit.

8. Simbi Skirt: The Classic Reimagined

The Simbi skirt takes classic design elements and reinterprets them with a modern twist, offering clean lines and a contemporary silhouette. It is made from high-quality sportswear fabric. Together with the line play it creates a fun look. This long men’s skirt with small train is versatile, making it a great addition to any wardrobe. Style the Simbi with a crisp shirt and a blazer for a polished, professional look, or keep it casual with a tucked-in tee and loafers. The simplicity of the elegant skirt allows you to experiment with accessories like a wide belt or a statement necklace to add a personalized touch.

9. Selene Skirt: The Sleek Essential

The Selene skirt is all about sleek, minimalist design, offering a refined silhouette that can be dressed up or down. Pair it with a tailored blouse and sharp heels for a formal occasion, or keep it casual with a knit sweater and ankle boots. The grey pinstripe men’s skirt’s understated elegance allows for bold accessorizing—consider adding oversized sunglasses or a dramatic cuff bracelet to elevate your ensemble.

 

Why Men’s Skirts Are Here to Stay

The rise of skirts for men is more than just a trend—it’s a reflection of fashion’s evolution towards greater inclusivity and self-expression. At Haruco-vert, we design our skirts to empower you to showcase your individuality and break free from traditional gender norms.

Our collection is crafted to be versatile, stylish, and comfortable, making these skirts an essential addition to any modern wardrobe. Whether you’re making a bold statement or exploring new fashion horizons, our skirts are designed to help you stand out with confidence.

Ready to embrace the future of (genderless and) men’s fashion? Visit here to explore our full skirt collection and find the perfect men’s skirt to elevate your style.

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Dark fashion a Gothic origin

Dark fashion

Does dark fashion have a gothic origin? Dark fashion is it a trend? Is it a lifestyle? Is it a believe? What is it? Often compared with the gothic fashion, it certainly is not the same. They do have something in common though. Both clothing styles are marked by a dark and mysterious feel and homogeneous colors, mostly black. 

History of Gothic

To understand the origin of dark fashion clothing I’ll give a quick summery of the origin of the gothic subculture. The early 80’s were a time of changing perspectives on the world. The time of a love and peace mindset changed into ‘we have to fight for what we believe’. It became a time of many protests against the established order. This brought also new visions, a new energy, and thus many new genres of music. From post punk and new wave sprung the gothic-rock scene. Darker sounds, arrangements and dramatic melancholic melodies. This gave birth to the gothic subculture with themes as dark romanticism, tragedy, compassion mingled with melancholy, morbidity and the supernatural. These are adopted from the architecture, literature and arts, from the late 18th century, also know as the Neo-gothic and Romantic era. The Gothic scene adopted also its fashion elements such as corsets, velvets and petticoats which gave it its signature look when we think of Goths. We can say the Gothic scene is still very much alive today as we look at the many sub-scenes that sprung from it. 

Dark fashion a Gothic origin

Now back to the question; does dark fashion have a gothic origin? I would very much say yes! So what is the difference between the Gothic scene and Dark fashion? My explanation would be that many fashion designers look and study many subcultures and shape it through their own image and hand to translate it into their own vision. To say it in an easier way, they look for inspiration often in subcultures. Now we all know how inspiration works. It’s an element of creation. In order to create something new we need tot have inspiration. So when we let the Gothic scene inspire us it doesn’t mean that the outcome will look similar. Often the basic emotions still can be sensed but the look can be totally different. That’s why dark fashion can look very futuristic but still carries the emotions of dark romanticism. Mostly represented by the color black with some hints of grays or other darker or muted colors.

Elements of dark fashion

Glamgoth or glunge can certainly be found within the dark fashion scene. It’s where gothic meets glamour or glamour meets grunge. Both with a dark aesthetic with a glamorous raw edge. Within dark fashion many types of silhouettes can be found. From tailored to a wide fit or layered and from glamour to casual. All have in common that the black colored looks mostly have a stronger silhouette. The dark fashion style can be found with women’s wear and men’s wear. But also unisex items are becoming more common, as the color black makes no distinction in gender regarding to shapes. Meaning black is an ideal color to make a more feminine shape become more masculine and vise versa. 

Dark fashion designers

When we think of dark fashion clothes most of you will think of Rick Owens, whose ground breaking collections earned him the name The lord of Darkness. But also Alexander McQueen had a dark interpretation to fashion when you look into the concept behind the clothes, while Sarah Burton’s collections are a much milder but more refined version. Yohji Yamamoto can certainly also be associated with dark fashion especially his commercial brand S’YTE. And let’s not forget Rei Kawakubo for COMME des GARÇONS, which early adopters of the brand were derisively referred to as “black crows.” 

Is dark fashion a trend?

Can we say dark fashion is a trend? As trends go by quick I would say not. Dark fashion is amongst us already for quite some time by now and it will be there for quite some more years to come as it still is very much alive. This we can say because dark fashion itself already has its own subcultures emerging like Dark wear, Tech wear. Is it a lifestyle, a believe? I think for the hardcore Rick Owens fans I would say yes, with a wink. There are numerous dedicated people with daily posts on instagram showing off their latest fashion investments. But for many people dark fashion might be just a choice of fashion, but certainly not a believe.    

Haruco-vert and dark fashion

This said, why do I dedicate this blog to Dark Fashion? When writing my blogs I try little by little to explain what Haruco-vert is all about. And dark fashion also plays a part in the Haruco-vert Universe. We flirt a little with dark fashion in most of our expressions, be it the clothing itself, our photography or even our music for our fashion films. Although we use many colors as well, a lot of our pieces can be part of a dark fashion outfit or wardrobe I would say. So explained what this fashion style is, perhaps it is time to discover your inner dark fashion self within your wardrobe? I bet you can find an item which you can wear in a dark fashion way! Check out our drop crotch pants, long black dresses, or tough avant-garde pieces.

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Little black dress 

We think we created succesfully a little black dress that both is suitable in a dark fashion wardrobe as well as in a colorful wardrobe. Interested in how we did this? Keep reading!

First a bit of history

The little black dress, also shortened to LBD, is the ultimate women’s wardrobe classic everybody has heard of. The little black dress is a popular style that’s extremely versatile that will dress women of any age. But what exactly is a little black dress and what is its origin?

A LBD is a black evening dress or cocktail dress with a simple cut and often short in length. Coco Chanel is, according to fashion historians, one of the most famous designers who popularized this iconic fashion item. Her idea was that the LBD should be long-lasting, versatile, affordable and widely accessible. Every woman should be able to afford herself to be chic. Vogue published Chanels version on its cover in 1926 of this fashion dress and called it Chanel’s Ford.

Why the color black?

Once the symbolic color of mourning and wealth, but in fashion it is praised for its mysterious, serious, and elegant qualities. Black slims the body, frames the face and hides imperfections. These specific facts are reason to state that every woman needs this simple yet elegant dress to be part of her wardrobe. It is classless, timeless and ageless.

Many designers besides Coco Chanel had their take on this iconic fashion dress. For example Givenchy, who designed the famous dress that Audrey Hepburn was wearing in the opening scene of film classic ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’’s.

Haruco-vert’s LBD

Studied the aspects of the little black dress; timeless, ageless, long-lasting, versatile, affordable and accessible, we designed our version of this iconic fashion dress. Instead of using satin, silk or other rich fabrics, we chose a hydrophillic cotton because of its unique and easy to wear qualities. Its quirky appearance we used to create a rich, chic and, most importantly, easy to wear modern little black dress. The hydropillic fabric is ideal to use for a raw edge finishing. This gives the black dress a unique and unexpected appearance.

Keeping in mind it should enhance every womans beauty we created a shape that fits a diversity of body types. The chicness in this modern version of the LBD is created by the diagonal placed raw edge chiffon strips, which flows eleganty down the dress. Both the fabrics and the placement create a perfect symbiose within this black cotton dress which is both quirky and rich in appearance. We think we created succesfully a black dress that both is suitable in a dark fashion wardrobe as well as in a colorful wardrobe. Therefore a musthave for every woman! See for yourself!

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A remarkable name

Since we founded our fashion brand Haruco-vert in the beginning of 2007 we soon noticed that it was a remarkable name. People came up with the funniest name corruptions. So let’s go through a few of them!

On the first place is the most common name corruption of our fashion brand, especially amongst the Dutch, is Haricots vert, the green bean. It’s the first thing our name is associated with as apparently the Dutch have those quite a lot on their menu. Funny enough the French (as haricots vert is a French word) don’t have this association at all. Harico-vert is another corruption we see. It is almost right but still too much thinking of the green bean here. We also come across Haricovert, without the hyphen, quite sometime. Although the hyphen is silent we don’t blame people. This way of writing also occurs when people think of Haricots verts but don’t know how to write it.

We applaud people who write ‘harucovert’, as this is what it comes to, because all the letters right. Sometimes people will even write HA.RU.CO~VERT. Also in this case we applaud to people, as they have written our brand completely according to our first logo image.

Haruco-vert what does it mean?

Why did we choose for this difficult name in the first place? Well perhaps time to tell you. Haruco is a combination of the first letters of our first names. Also Haruco is a Japanese female name. Its most common translation is “spring child”. Spring reminds us of young, fresh and green. As we are inspired by Japanese art, fashion and fashion items such as the kimono we found Haruco a very suitable name to use. Combining Haruco with the French word for green, which is ‘vert’, Haruco-vert was born. An international touch by just using a combination of the first letters of our first names and mostly inspired by the Japanse national historical garments and art it just seemed right for us. That’s why we chose the difficult name Haruco-vert as our brand name. It just sticks to you or it doesn’t!

New logo

Since 2007 when we started Haruco-vert we had our first logo designed. After 15 years we found it time to update our logo and make it more fresh. So it is time to present you with our new haruco-vert logo!

 

For the Dutch version click here.

 

haruco-vert logo

haruco-vert logo

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Een bijzondere naam

Begin 2007 hebben we ons modemerk Haruco-vert opgericht. We merkten al snel dat onze naam een bijzondere naam is. Mensen kwamen met allerlei grappige verbasteringen. Laten we er een paar doornemen!

Op de eerste plaats is de meest voorkomende verbastering van ons modemerk Haricots-vert, de groene boon. Het is het eerste waar onze naam mee wordt geassocieerd. Grappig genoeg hebben de Fransen (aangezien haricots vert een Frans woord is) deze associatie helemaal niet. Harico-vert is een andere verbastering die we zien. Het is bijna goed. Maar nog steeds te veel denken aan de sperzieboon hier. We komen ook wel eens Haricovert tegen, zonder het koppelteken. Deze manier van schrijven komt ook voor wanneer mensen aan Haricots verts denken… Maar niet weten hoe ze het moeten schrijven.

We juichen mensen toe die ‘harucovert’ schrijven. Alle letters kloppen! Soms schrijven mensen zelfs HA.RU.CO~VERT. Ook in dit geval juichen we de mensen toe. Ze hebben ons merk volledig geschreven volgens ons eerste logo.

Een volgende poging is dat als mensen het niet op onze naam kunnen vinden er andere woorden worden toegevoegd. Zo merken we dat ook zoektermen als Haricots vert mode, Haricots-vert kleding, of harico-vert fashion worden gebruikt.

Haruco-vert wat betekent het?

Waarom hebben we in de eerste plaats voor deze moeilijke naam gekozen? Misschien tijd om het je te vertellen. Haruco is een combinatie van de eerste letters van onze voornamen. Ook is Haruco een Japanse vrouwelijke naam. De meest voorkomende vertaling is “lentekind”. De lente doet ons denken aan jong, fris en groen. Omdat we ons laten inspireren door Japanse kunst, mode en fashion items zoals de kimono, vonden we Haruco een zeer geschikte naam.

Door Haruco te combineren met het Franse woord voor groen, dat ‘vert’ is, werd Haruco-vert geboren. Een internationaal tintje door een combinatie van de eerste letters van onze voornamen te gebruiken. En met name geïnspireerd door de Japanse nationale historische kledingstukken en kunst leek het ons passend. Daarom hebben we als merknaam de moeilijke naam Haruco-vert gekozen. Het blijft gewoon bij je hangen of niet! Tegenwoordig staat de ‘vert’ voor ons ook voor de groene, duurzame kant van ons label. Daarover vertellen we je meer in een van onze volgende blogs.

Nieuw logo

Sinds 2007, toen we Haruco-vert begonnen, lieten we ons eerste logo ontwerpen. Na 15 jaar vonden we het tijd om ons logo te updaten en frisser te maken. Tijd dus om ons nieuwe haruco-vert logo te presenteren!

 

haruco-vert logo

 

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