“In 1963, Ben Sherman began producing his iconic shirts in Brighton, England. During the 70s, 80s and 90s the Ben Sherman button-down check shirt became the ultimate cultural icon through its adoration and adoption by Punk, Mod and Britpop movements. Today, Ben Sherman has evolved from its 60s shirt focus and now presents a complete lifestyle offering to the global market.
Ben Sherman’s Autumn 08 Global design theme takes inspiration from great British luxury, acknowledging the British tradition for attention to detail, premium design and quirkiness. And of course Ben Sherman gives everything its mod twist to make it contemporary and relevant.
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‘The Getaway’ sees the Ben Sherman mod leaving the city. Mixing city sharpness with casual, we dress down the suit and mix tailoring with knitwear and smart shirts with track tops. ‘The Game’- indulging in great British elitist winter sports fishing and shooting with the attire to match. Waxed jackets, tartan influenced shirts, twill dogtooth porkpie hats, heavier knitwear and hunter wellies. ‘The Guestlist’ – up to the alpine resport for a party. Here dinner jackets are worn over shiny track tops, ski inspired light weight nylons over striped polos for the drive. Fine guage mod roll necks worn under double breasted melton coats for the walk from bar to bar.”
Brad Pitt is well known for his association with Edwin jeans but he is probably not so well known for wearing Energie, the male version of Miss Sixty. Thanks to the paparazzi’s nosey beak, Brad Pitt has been photographed walking in Los Angeles, with Angelina Jolie, wearing the Energie’s Gabon Jacket. Nice! 😉
Here are a few shots from the Red Monkey and Yoropiko stand at Bread & Butter Barcelona 2008. Martin Ksohoh fly in from HK to be at the event in person. Red Monkey and Yoropiko jeans were a massive hit with buyers from all around the world and Martin helped explain the latest issue with counterfeit Red Monkey jeans been sold into the USA.
ARMANI COLLEZIONI MENSWEAR, SPRING / SUMMER 2008 Press Release:
One Green Elephant is a Japanese brand that gets its inspiration out of the big Asian metropolis – Tokyo, Seoul, and Shanghai. They produce some of the most cutting edge designs available in the market today. One Green Elephant believe in originality and their products, creative packaging and branding illustrate this. The initial launch of OGE in Europe (mid 2005) achieved excellent sales results.
There has been a loud outcry at the level of security at the recent unveiling of the Prada fall 2008 menswear collections in Milan. Apparently Prada are a prime target for PETA protests which was a contributing factor to Prada’s extreme security, which included forcing everyone to scan their invites, marked with a tribal digital thumbnail, as they were jostled through a bunch of beefy bounces. Welcome to the real world would have perhaps been an appropriate name for the highly hype show.
Burberry are apparently considering a new underwear range according to designer Christopher Bailey. In a statement, Bailey said: “An new underwear range is something that we’ve played with… and we’ll possibly launch something. At the moment we’re not really talking about a launch date but it’s something that’s absolutely in the pipeline.”
The RMC Red Monkey, Bread and Butter Barcelona Afterparty is billed as a major fashion and music event. Entrance is 20Euros with a special goodie bag for the first 100 entrants.
Creative Recreation was officially launched in Orange County, California in the Fall 2002. The founders of Creative Recreation noticed a huge void in the footwear market. Everyone was offering either dress shoes to be worn with a suit or athletic inspired sneakers that were not acceptable at most functions for the Creative Recreation lifestyles. No one was offering footwear to young professionals with style. Two long Time friends who were already enjoying a prosperous career in the footwear industry decided they would be the ones to change the game.
BAPE clothing grows up? A Bathing Ape, the Japanese brand known internationally for its flambouyant camo and child-like characterisations, has released a new line called “Black Label” which is reputedly a collection of black and other one-shade clothing. Whether this is a transition to a more mature and discerning customer-base is yet to be seen, but as we all know Nigo is a marketing genius so the move is bound to have substance!
In recent years Addict clothing has emerged as one of the leading British Streetwear brands. Their uncompromising dedication to streetwear style is undoubtedly the basis for their success.
Kitmeout user shares 2 year old well worn RMC jeans. Notice the red logo on the leather patch. Authentic RMC only have a red logo. This red logo is a good identifier as a number of fakes have black or blue logos. The other way to distinguish real from fake is a lot of fakes just have RMC in the logo and are missing the all important Martin Ksohoh beneath the RMC which is probably because the fakers find it too expensive and difficult to print the small letters on the leather patch.
Based in England but with founding designers from Milan, Tokyo and London, Money has been influenced by classic American street styles and blended them with a unique energy and attitude. The result is a dynamic combination of fanatical Japanesse attention to detail, Italian obsession with quality and an English sense of anarchy and wit.
Live Mechanics is a streetwear brand that expresses it’s pain, passion, and progress in a creative form through it’s detailed crafted apparel.