PARIS, Jan 29, 2005/ FW/ --- – What a better setting for sober Number Nine than a rainy Parisian day. In a charmingly decaying building at the Faculty of Medicine, Japanese designer Tabahiro Miyashita deconstructs Seattle rock myths and turns them into contemporary street chic rebel stars.

Super thin males strode to smashing Nirvana dressed in an eclectic mix of yesterday’s memories and today’s desires.

From seventies colored beads and fringing to eighties head scarves, long hair and tight jean style pants, Number (N)ine’s ‘The High Streets’ menswear collection for winter 2005/06 incorporates good times memoirs and allows their men the real possibility of turning back time to when they were perhaps carefree and happily immature.

Luxury distorts the informal via long fur and sheepskin sleeveless coats, while feather down jackets are purposely longer and reinvented to resemble a formal blazer without sleeves, double breasted and equipped with lapels to elongate to torso.

Plaid flannel-like shirts become city essentials worn even with formal style tuxedo trousers and jackets along with stylish sneakers.

Jackets are intentionally deconstructed and pieced back together to create uniquely tailored garments. Track material is mixed with denim; wool with leather and even the classic ‘chiodo’ biker jacket is chopped and lengthened with sweats.

Number (N)ine is a creative chaos of streetwear needs and comforts along with formal rudiments, making up a collection of urban desires for the man looking to create a new identity while reminiscing the early years.

Number (N)ine

Number (N)ine

Number (N)ine

Number (N)ine