Widely heralded as the second coming of Helmut Lang, Canadian designer Rad Hourani’s spring-summer 2010 collection turns minimalism on its head and smashes it into a metal shop, over and over again. But this is a good thing. Kind of.

Hourani’s hardware-embellished casual-wear sure has echoes of the great 90s structural minimalists, but his approach is decidedly more modern, more rock — more Trash and Vaudeville than grown-up art collector. Hands down the most covetable pieces in Hourani’s city-slicker wardrobe are his trousers — skinny black stovepipe pants with chains laced horizontally up and down the front. His outerwear and jackets, while expertly tailored, seemed heavy-handed and cumbersome — some in silhouette, other in literal bulk.