Somehow, in the shuffle of new menswear streaming in from Paris, we almost overlooked Walter Van Bierondonck's madcap statement for fall 2010 last week. The Belgian designer is famous for his tongue-in-cheek designs (look no further than the nude bearded logo plastered all over his homepage), and his latest runway collection clearly pushes the idea that industrial-sized ear muffs—the kind that you might use to cut out the sound of a pneumatic drill—should be in every man's sartorial toolbox next winter.
