For many years one trend has stood the test of time: menswear as womenswear.

Starting in the 1920s, Coco Chanel revolutionized the way women dressed, giving them a new freedom to wear things besides petticoats and skirts. Women started to wear pants and other things that were considered manly in that decade of prim and proper fashion.

Since then designers have even further made staples such as jackets even more “manly”. The trend seems to be ever popular now, with many models adopting the trend as a permanent style, many magazines featuring menswear themed editorials almost every month, and it seems that designers can’t get enough of the trend either. Many shows are fully influenced by it, or at least have a few things deducted from menswear.

It seems that the trend has been unstoppable in 2009, and it leaves me wondering one thing: when will it end?! I don’t think that it will come to a halt any time soon, because there is a huge bunch of people loving the it. I for one, however, don’t really care for it. Let’s girls be girls, and boys be boys. But only when it’s done in a ultra cool way à la Isabel Marant or Givenchy, I’ll let it slide.

What do you think?

Sticking to his current formula of Baptiste Giabiconi + Freja Beha Erichsen + mega platform/host city = absolute perfection, this Pre-Fall 2010, Karl Lagerfeld gives you everything that you would normally expect from a Chanel collection and a little more. All of which displayed by the great kaiser’s current boy-toy Baptiste (as expected). Only this time using China’s largest city, Shanghai, as the season’s added extra.

As cars zoomed by and building lights flourished in the night, Shanghai’s modern skyline played up a bit of extra contrast to Lagerfeld’s revamped traditional Chinese ensembles and basic essential colors. Last season the Chanel man was introduced to high-waisted jeans. This season he is now re-introduced to the long military style double-breasted coats that we saw back in the house’s Pars-Moscou show and the leprechaun greens of Fall 2009. Though this time Spring 2010′s deliberate dust marks are now metallic and Pre-Fall 2009′s coats have a buttons for days and a chic Asian flair.

What city/model shall Karl conquer next?

Now online, the December/January issue of 160g Magazine marks a turn to everything erotic in the appropriately titled, “Erotic Issue”.

Shot by photographer Greg Gex, two covers perfectly display the “no hold barred” idea of the inner contents of the magazine. With Maike Ludembach in a lusty Prada Fall 2009 number being the one of the two covers, Oscar Spendrup takes to the second in a black wool/cotton suit jacket and black stretch wool “bandage” knit, All Givenchy Fall 2009. Including the matching black wool shorts as presented in the house’s January show a few months back.

Whether or not Spendrup donned the over the knee bandage boots remains unseen. Sadly.

Bill Kaulitz, singer and one (large) portion the German band Tokio Hotel. Known not only for his vocals or founding a band with his identical brother, Kaulitz is no stranger to blurring the line between genders. Usually spotted with white-tipped nails and sporting his shrunken wardrobe, you would be lying if you were to say that Bill wasn’t in a category of his own, off to the side.

Arriving to the premiere of the animated flick Arthur and the Minimoys 2, yesterday in Germany, Kaulitz stayed within his comfort zone in black ultra-slim trousers and black accessories to go along with his get-up. Though it was his oversized sweater that came as something new.

Topping of his purple turtleneck with an over sized ribbed knit sweater, Bill drained Ann Demeulemeester’s Fall 2009 collection of all it’s romanticism and inhibition. Instead using the sweater to add some texture to a rather safe (in his realm) look.

Though I can’t say that I am a fan of the look, it is nice to see such a powerful piece by brilliant designer out and off of the runway. How does Bill’s look make you feel?

He’s only human, right? Dj Mark Ronson may be blazing a path in (almost) anything and everything Gucci Fall 2009, but last night Mark showed us that there is a little more to him than glimmering tuxedos and visage print ties.

If you were thinking that the only things that lie around in Mark Ronson’s closet have Gucci tagged on the inside, there is a good chance that you might want to think again. Seeing as English R&B/pop artist, Mr. Hudson, beat Mark at being the first to wear Gucci Spring 2010 – Mark instead takes the high road and wears another collection hot off of the runway.

At the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards last night, the DJ turned shoe designer wore a meticulously crafted rust stained tuxedo jacket, over a standard button-down in grey oxford cotton, with pants to match. All from New York designer Patrik Ervell’s Spring 2010 collection. Changing the runway’s moccasins to the standard dress shoe, of course (we all know how much of a fan Mark is of making a runway look his own).

If you have not yet taken a look at the genius that is the latest collection by Swedish-born designer Patrik Ervell, the video above should blissfully occupy the next 8 minutes and 43 seconds of your life.

Showcasing a clean a refreshing choice of colors that perfectly represent New York fashion and Spring as a whole, in Ervell’s collection you will find an unconventional beauty in rust stain prints and shirts perfectly smeared with rusted iron.