J. Crew winter 2012 collection

J. Crew fall and winter 2012 collection which was presented during New York Fashion Week which took the guy's wardrobe up a couple of notches. “The collection is more polished and more precise this season. The look, the hair, everything," said Frank Muytjens, head of the men's design team for J. Crew, "with deep, inky blues and blacks, like the colors in an oil slick.” Muytjens said  he took the season's inspiration from the poet Edward James. "I found his picture on the cover of a vintage book I found at the Brooklyn Flea Market," he explained. "I was also inspired by the explorer Ernest Shackleton." "That was a long time ago, 1910,” he acknowledged, “but I feel the time is right.” He came to that conclusion last year as he was traveling around the U.S. visiting J. Crew stores. “Of the people I was meeting, I noticed it was the men that were more dressed up than the women," he said. The result is a sharp-looking collection.