The other day I got bored and looked at every designer’s fall 2007 collection included on Condé Nast’s informative men’s fashion website, men.style.com. Like its corporate brothers GQ and Details, the style recommendations on that site are often tasteless— or at least boring, catered more towards the 40-something international playboy set than the young men out there who care less about brand name and more about a unique perspective. But luckily, the site provides a reasonably comprehensive database of top designers’ collections, providing users with the ability to make their own style decisions without the filter of a photo editorial on yachting essentials.

The thee pictures above are from the runway shows for Trovata, Lacoste, and Missoni, respectively. They were three of my favorites from this season, because almost everyone else seems to be putting out lines of all gray and black clothing, which is yawn central. It’s fine to indulge in drab monochromatics every once in a while, but it seems way overdone this season. Trovata’s line in particular tickled my pickle, because its stated source of inspiration was a “fictional 28-year-old private-school teacher in Manhattan in 1981,” a theme that reminded me of The Squid and the Whale and The Royal Tenenbaums.

I also enjoyed Marc Jacobs’ grunge-meets-Renoir line, Viktor & Rolf’s yellow clog-themed collection, and Etro’s hella faggy collection of grape and yellow-colored mensware. But why don’t you check out the site and decide for yourself, in that very Internet-abled democratic way, what you like! Hooray for fashion. My fashion fix was further satiated this weekend when I picked up the new issue of VMan, without a doubt the best men’s fashion magazine in America: