A few years ago ( in 2006 to be precise ) Phil Ijin designed a Lo-Top Hybrid Work-Boot that was not Sport nor Street, neither Fish nor Fowl , nor Sneeker nor Shoe, as far as classifying feet were concerned.
This super-rare Ijin Ankle Cutter had one last trick up its jeans cuff however & its that strange gussetted & over long tongue, to boot ( sic).
This particular detail was interpreted from vintage Vivienne Westwood ”Breaker Boots” ,er, ”back in the day”.
Giuliano Fujiwara Spring 2010 Campaign
It is paradoxical for Giuliano Fujiwara to be based in Milan, working as a part of the Italian fashion design community. Characteristically Japanese, Fujiwara seems antithetical to everything Italian. He is introverted while Italians are generally extroverted. He under-states while Italians exaggerate. He is reserved while Italians are expressive. Nevertheless, he seems comfortable in Milan where he has lived and worked since 1976, first as a designer for Barbas and then creating his own line of menswear. “If I stayed in Japan,” Fujiwara muses, “my work might have followed the direction of Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto.” Presumably he is talking about the Japanese fashion environment, which encourages avantgarde approaches to menswear.
The Fujiwara style is a curious mixture of American Ivy League, Japanese stark simplicity, and Italian sensitivity in fabrication and workmanship. Take a typical Fujiwara jacket: it has many similarities to the traditional American style—a straight-cut body, the high button stance, small lapels, the jacket length shorter that the Savile Row prototype. “The Ivy League style was my first love. I loved the way JFK looked,” he says, remembering his college days when he organized a group to study the manner of dressing. His first job was with a company called Van Jacket. Although it has long been defunct, Van was a catalyst in propagating the Ivy League look in post-World War II Japan, and its influence is felt even today, as in Fujiwara’s case.
—YokoHamada.
Just Cavalli Spring 2010 Campaign.
“Cor-blimey”-Katie slums it with “frock-boys” Baptiste Giabiconi and Jean Carlos for the Just Cavalli Spring 2010 Campaign. Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Overall a bit stall and predictabe but Katie adds some sparkle.
Just Cavalli, the youth-oriented offshoot of Roberto Cavalli was launched in 1998. Like the original, Just Cavalli encompasses menswear, accessories, and fragrance with a bold aesthetic…. think color, animal print, and denim. Nice!
The Thom Browne Menswear Autumn/Winter 2010 collection represents the epitome of the pointlessness of apres ski. Over-sized coats and nordic knits peppered with raccoon tails and shameless compliance. Not what we’ve come to expected from the usually distinct and insightful brand.
Thom Browne (born in 1965) is an American fashion designer. He is the founder and head of design for Thom Browne, a New York City-based menswear brand. Browne was named the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Menswear Designer of the Year in March 2006.
Browne grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from William Allen High School. He then attended the University of Notre Dame, where he received a degree in economics. He was also a member of the swim team. Following an attempt at acting in Los Angeles, Browne moved to New York City in 1997 for a job as a salesman in Giorgio Armani’s showroom.
Browne was picked up by Club Monaco, a brand of the Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, to lead its creative development team. He worked with the American fashion designer Ralph Lauren in this capacity. Browne spent several years at Club Monaco leading its design department before launching his own label.
Rick Owens DRKSHDW A/W 2010. Rick Owens’ DRKSHDW collection stays true to it’s inverted idealism. A militia orientated Marilyn Manson would be proud.
LOS ANGELES DESIGNER RICK OWENS OPENED HIS NAMESAKE LABEL IN 1994, CREATING ASYMMETRICAL DRESSES, SCULPTURAL T-SHIRTS AND SIGNATURE SUPER DISTRESSED LEATHER JACKETS THAT INSPIRED FEVERISH DEVOTION AMONG FANS LIKE MADONNA AND COURTNEY LOVE. HIS MEN’S AND WOMEN’S LINES DRKSHDW AND LILIES DELIVER PRET-A-PORTER INTERPRETATIONS OF HIS ROMANTIC BRAND OF AVANT-GARDE ROCK COUTURE.
New Balance launches a collection of 365 short films for 365 days of the year
The project, a creative collaboration between New Balance, Swedish film director Jesper Kouthoofd and New Balance Lifestyle agency of record, Mother New York, was designed to revolutionize the way New Balance connects with the consumer and creates a new method of communication with the brand’s audience. Over the course of eight days, the first 88 (of 365) films were shot in Stockholm in a truly collaborative effort. Mother, New Balance and Jesper worked collectively to build film sets, engineer the film shoot and bring the project into existence.
GQ Australia’s February/March 2010 issue visits Singapore for an engaging spread dedicated to Louis Vuitton’s spring 2010 collection. Presented by Jolyon Mason, Louis Vuitton’s boys are treated to exotic scenes as photographed by Gan.
History: Louis Vuitton launched his firm after gaining experience making luggage and trunks for Napoléon III. A century and a half later, his namesake brand is the anchor of the world’s largest luxury-goods company. (Side note: LV’s signature monogram, which dates to 1896, was actually introduced to discourage counterfeiting.) In the 2000s, LV menswear came into its own under the creative direction of Marc Jacobs and his studio director Paul Helbers, a Margiela alum with a knack for combining classical craftsmanship with futuristic colors, cuts, and fabrics.
London, 23 February 2010 – Burberry showed its Burberry Prorsum Autumn Winter 2010 womenswear collection at London Fashion Week this afternoon.
The show, which took place at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, was attended by over 1000 guests including Kate Hudson, Kristen Stewart, Mary Kate Olsen, Mia Wasikowska, Claire Danes, One Night Only, The Kooks, Snow Patrol, Anna Wintour, Mario Testino, Philip Green, Twiggy, Samantha Cameron, Leigh Lezark, Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Tamsin Egerton, Jamie Campbell Bower, Alex Watson, Max Hurd, Matt Gilmour, Bonnie Wright and Burberry Chief Executive Officer Angela Ahrendts.
In the first ever live global 3D broadcast, Burberry broadcast its show in 3D to screening rooms custom designed by Christopher Bailey at five simultaneous private events around the world in Paris, New York, Dubai, Tokyo and Los Angeles live from London. Viewers all over world were also able to watch the show live online in 2D at Burberry, as well as at over 70 global online news, blog, and fashion websites including Sky News, CNN, The Times, and The Daily Beast, all of which could be accessed on the iPhone, consequently enabling over 100 million viewers to see the latest Burberry womenswear collection.
Viewers of the 2D live stream were able to comment on the show in real time using their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Exclusive Burberry entertainment from backstage and the red carpet in London was also streamed in 2D and 3D, hosted by British BBC Radio One presenter, Greg James.
At Ijin headquarters the fearless Phil Ijin knows no jeans-making boundaries & showing unbleached & unseeded organic cotton, selvedged ”denim” for the Standard red-line leg presented no real moral issues.After all , denim was not always blue, & canvas qualities ruled the prospector roost, back in the day & once upon a time ( in America). And then there’s that description ”Red-line”.On closer inspection we can notice that whilst red is present on the ”self-edge” , there is a more unusual orange line accompanying the red one, creating a slightly Rustic Summer feel.Interesting is that the shaggy Ox calf label pays homage to the ‘hair-on-hide” classic waist label, however tipped on it’s feet & sewn on the left side ( like all Ijin selvedge cuts ) it is signature Ijin through & through, especially with the Diamond sewn rivets & that triple needle back seam ( the only 3 needle seam on the garment, specially added for extra resistance).
And Resistance this certainly is,in the Indigo sphere, so waste no time sitting on the fence, ”Go Neutral” & always remember:
”the revolution will not be televised: the revolution will be live”.
Prada Menswear A/W 2010 in motion. Prada continues to lead the way in high fashion menswear. A brand truly able to combine innovation and style.
Pringle of Scotland S/S 2010 Film by Ryan McGinley. Pringle of Scotland have taken the bold move forward to present the Spring Summer collection in the form of a film, created by art photographer Ryan McGinley and starring the Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton.
bicycle cap by peSeta for Marc Jacobs.
this forth collaboration with the american designer is a limited, hand numbered series of bicycle cap. we used plaid fabric and we changed a little bit the typical stripe.
the label is, as usual, something more than justa piece of paper. we´ve made a “spoke card” of fabric, with respect for all the bikers in the world.
peSeta has been collaborating with Marc Jacobs since 2008.
this is the forth special item designed and produced here in madrid, spain.
it all started when they visited us in our boutique-atelier and proposed to do something together. now this is more than just a punctual project, is something more established, a long term relationship where we can design and produce with total american freedom and mediterranean soul…
as the rest of these collaborations, this cap can only be found at the Marc by Marc Jacobs stores in New York, London and Paris.
Following in the footsteps of the NOHARM brand, G-Star Raw continues to be a leader both in design, and in advocacy. They use sustainable fabrics like organic cotton and they are also at the forefront where socially responsible production methods and labor are concerned. Check out G-Star’s End Poverty 2015 Campaign in affiliation with the UN’s Millennium Goals. Here’s how you can get involved.
End poverty by 2015. This is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they signed onto the Millennium Declaration and agreed to meet the “Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs are an eight-point road map with measurable targets and clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world’s poorest people. World leaders have agreed to achieve the MDGs by 2015.
London, 21 February 2010 – Burberry dressed the following guest at the Orange British Academy Film Awards 2010 this evening.
Claire Danes – Custom-made trench color silk gown and shoes by Burberry
Danes was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Carla, is a day-care provider, painter, and textile designer who later served as her daughter’s manager, and her father, Christopher Danes, is a computer consultant and former architectural photographer. Danes has described her background as being “as WASPy as you can get”; her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes, (1910-1992 in Litchfield, Connecticut) was the dean of the art and architecture school at Yale University. She has an older brother, Asa, who graduated from Oberlin College and works as a litigation attorney for the law firm of Paul Hastings.
Danes attended the Dalton School in New York City, the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, the Professional Performing Arts School,and the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. In 1998, Danes went to Yale University, her father’s alma mater. Oliver Stone wrote her letter of recommendation to Yale. After studying for two years as a psychology major, she dropped out of Yale to focus on her film career.
London, Saturday 20 February – Irish actress Saoirse Ronan wore a custom designed fuschia dress, bracelet and shoes all by Burberry to the Irish Film and Television Awards in Dublin this evening.
Ronan, an only child, was born in New York City. She is the daughter of Irish parents Monica and Paul Ronan – the latter an actor – who were living in New York at the time. She was raised in County Carlow, Ireland, having moved to Ireland when she was three years old. As a small child, she sometimes accompanied her father on the set when he was working on such films as The Devil’s Own and Veronica Guerin.
The PUMA phone is set with sports related applications such as an analogue stopwatch, GPS run tracker, GPS bike speedo, a pedometer and even a yachting compass. For the fun side, social media apps such as twitter, facebook are all a part of the phone. Some other quirky new additions include icon messaging, a sarcastic calculator and a turntable one can actually scratch on.
Dior Homme Spring/Summer 2010 Trainers. Kris Van Assche (Art Director of Dior Homme) presents an eye-catching and sophisticated style worthy of the Dior Homme name.
Justin Timberlake on William Rast:
“I guess I think it’s because we’re not trying to be something that we’re not. We’re consistent with our culture and we’ll always be that way. The way to build a brand is that people like to depend on things and we want to be the kind of brand that people can depend on. I don’t think we’re trying to be couture, I think we gain more respect for not trying so hard and just emulating the designs that we love. And we’ll continue to do that.”
Sounds like possible lyrics for Justin’s next album?
J.Lindeberg Spring/Summer 2010 Campaign | Jeremy Dufour by Andreas Sjödin. Selecting Jeremy Dufour as this season’s leading star, the J.Lindeberg man may dress with manly sophistication. Photographed by Andreas Sjödin, a thousand words go unspoken behind the gaze of a mischievous Jeremy.
A number of commentators have accused G-Star of losing the plot with their New York Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2010 offering. The bright greens, yellows and blues attracted mutterings of flop from the sides of the runway and someone even suggested Big Bird would soon be making an entrance. Regardless of the collection, G-Star certainly know how to entertain, so hats off to them for that.
Diesel Black Gold Autumn/Winter 2010. Under the new creative direction of Sophia Kokosalaki, Diesel Black Gold offered the expected denims and blacks. However, the new vision was patently obvious with a subliminal romantic twist at every curve. Hard, soft and ironic, the applause was worthy.
Robin’s Jean Footwear is an exciting and new concept of high-fashion footwear for those looking to adorn their feet in an unique and creative way. Just like their denim collection, Robin’s Jean Footwear values comfort, construction, and style above all else. To create a rock and roll look, rich and textured hues are meshed with edgy embellishments and design features for the ultimate in statement footwear. Designed in Los Angeles, these urban-inspired creations are astoundingly innovative and guaranteed to invigorate even the freshest of wardrobes.
Robin’s Jean is sold in about 800 specialty stores such as: Kitson LA, Fred Segal Santa Monica, Atrium NY, and Lulu Miami. With massive demand, Robin’s Jean has quickly grown a celebrity and fashion insider fan base. Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdales recently became partners of the Robin’s U.S. expansion. Robin’s jean can also be found all around the world: Saks Fifth Avenue and Harvey Nichols in Hong Kong and Dubai.
SIMON SPURR fall 2010 fashion show. This was Simon’s first runway show after several successful seasons of menswear presentations. He debuted his new high-end tailored collection SIMON SPURR. “I am English and my brand is decidedly American. I really wanted to establish my British roots and deliver something modern and elegant into American fashion week” – designer Simon Spurr.
Jun Takahashi’s UNDERCOVER will be launching a new collection of raw denim apparel that includes denim jackets and jeans at the newly renovated Shinjuku Isetan on Wednesday, February 17th. In addition to the various denim jackets, shirts, and jeans that will be available look for UNDERCOVER to be releasing it’s own fragrance line for both Men and Women in the near future. via Jun Takahashi
Gant by Michael Bastian A/W 2010 at New York Fashion Week. Gant by Michael Bastian’s show was the timeless marriage of prep and jock. This season, Gant recruited designer Michael Bastian for Gant by Michael Bastian. Viewing the range as the wardrobe of “the younger brother to the Michael Bastian guy”, the designer’s collection was inspired by lacrosse and Gant’s archives.
Y-3 Autumn/Winter 2010 at New York Fashion Week. Yamamoto turned out a dark collection of billowing tops, capes and bottoms that took his vision for Adidas to the next level. Infusing sportswear with a tongue-in-cheek formality, Yamamoto delivered a great variety of lively pieces that were not complete without his signature oversize fit.
Directed by Eric Ray, Native Son presented their Autumn Collection in Chelsea Piers NYC. The collection, designed by Kyle Fitzgibbons The former designer at Band of Outsiders, was a resounding success.
Rag & Bone Menswear A/W2010
Rag & Bone designers Marcus Wainwright and David Neville presented their latest collection to the beat of Thom Yorke. The Rag & Bone models strutted along the runway in relaxed layers of wool and tweed. A country-cloured palette mixed amongst camouflage, checks and plaid. A top show from a top brand!
Evisu and Common Projects will debut their first footwear collaboration — two men’s sneaker styles — at next week’s Project show in Las Vegas.
Branded as Evisu by Common Projects, the vulcanized, leather low- and high-top styles will come in three colorways and will feature Common Projects’ foil heel stamp. The fall ’10 styles will be sold at Evisu shops and in select boutiques, and retail for $165 (for low-tops) and $185 (for high-tops).?
Denim brand Evisu named Scott Morrison, formerly of Paper Denim & Cloth and Earnest Sewn, to the CEO position in spring ’09. Under Morrison, the brand announced its intention to focus on its history as a premium Japanese denim brand. And while the label has previously had footwear through a licensee, the Common Projects collaboration will be its first such project under new leadership — and the brand’s only footwear.
Peter Poopat, co-creator (with Flavio Girolami) of Common Projects, told Footwear News that the pairing got his brand back to its roots. “When Common Projects first began, we wanted the label to be something like what we’re doing with Evisu — something for a wider audience, but still premium,” he said. “Originally, we wanted it to sell at $150, so this was an interesting project.”?
Poopat said the collaboration also let Common Projects explore a new construction: vulcanized outsoles. “Scott wears Chuck Taylors a lot, so we thought about Chucks and things like that,” he said. ?
According to Poopat, Common Projects handled the design and development of the shoes, and Evisu oversaw production, as well as sales and distribution. ?
Morrison told FN he thinks the sneakers will bring new fans to Evisu. “Any of our existing Evisu customers would be a natural fit, and certainly that’s intended,” he said. “But I’d also imagine that we’re going to be appealing to consumers who have long admired Common Projects, or to existing customers who want something special.” via WWD.
New for spring 2010, the 460 transforms into a holiday favorite. Wear your heart on your feet this Valentine’s Day with a New Balance 460 designed especially for the day of love. The sneaker features a translucent rubber outsole with a heart pattern and heart-shaped accents adorning the tongue, heel tab and insert of the shoe, allowing the wearer to send a subtle message of love for the holiday.