The mighty Cesare Paciotti, best known as an Italian luxury footwear company, is expanding into the ready-to-wear sector under a new label, Paciotti 4US. The company, famous for its dagger logo and exquisite shoes, opened its first standalone ready-to-wear boutique in Rome earlier this month. In a statement, designer Paciotti said: “I translated the 4US style in a leisure time collection. It’s luxury sportswear, it’s about comfort and it should mirror the 4US spirit.”
Paciotti plans to present the new collection during Milan Men’s Fashion Week with an event on Jan. 14. A new showroom in central Via Sant’Andrea will also help support sales and communications efforts.
Whilst the 4US collection previously existed, it only included a limited number of items, such as sweatshirts, T-shirts and denim jeans. Since the original launch of the label, the designer has expanded it to build a comprehensive line for men and women, adding cargo pants, polo shirts, knit tops and down jackets.
Distribution of the ready-to-wear is still in its early phase. The brand currently has the brand has over 900 stockists worldwide, although Paciotti is planning to be more selective and reduce it store presence.
For AW07, Nudie Jeans have teamed up with Amnesty International in Sweden to create a Human Rights T-shirt collection. Each shirt represents one of the 30 articles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and was donated by the designers who took part in this project.
Evidenced by the latest fashion show, Wahoojin denim is making inroads into the denim mainstream with funky denim fashion. Wahoojin is a Japanese company that was established in the year 2005. The concept of Wahoojin is to create high quality, yet fun and fashionable denim by using historical Kimono hand paintings (Yu-Zen). Wahoojin wishes to inspire all.
RMC Designer and Brand Owner, Martin Yat Ming aka Martin Ksohoh is to judge the Hong Kong Young Fashion Designers’ Contest 2008
Fashion designer Hedi Slimane, who abruptly parted ways with Dior Homme in March after a seven-year stint at the helm, is staging a rock exhibit at Galerie Almine Rech in the Marais district through January. Entitled “Perfect Stranger,” it features Slimane’s shots of fans he made during the Benicassim rock festival in Spain last July. Sounds like the perfect sabbatical for the fashion guru.
David Beckham exposed one of his most intimate photos to date as the new face of Armani Underwear. The shot is the ex Man Utd and Real Madrid star’s first American advert for the Italian underwear giant, with several more planned for next season.
Fly 53 + Penfield Clothing Sample Sale. Come one, come all – have fun get bargain Christmas presents!
Famous for fusing art and footwear, Gravis and premier graffiti artist, CRASH, today unveiled their limited edition collaborative shoe, the Gravis x CRASH Lowdown Hi-Cut LX. 
Since mid-2007 the Belgian designer Bruno Pieters has been the Art Director for HUGO, the avant-garde line from HUGO BOSS. Pieters’ first collection will be presented in January 2008 and available in stores worldwide from July onwards.
Victoria Beckham will front the new Marc Jacobs campaign for his Spring 2008 collection. Rumour has it Posh Spice posed naked for the shoot. Beckham posed for the campaign in a shoot done by Jacobs’ photographer, Juergen Teller.”She was a great sport. She agreed to do something rough and tough and quite raw,” Jacobs told Womens Wear Daily. “It wasn’t days and days of hair and makeup.”
Pepe Jeans CoLabs with Andy Warhol to launch their new collection. Pepe Jeans has acquired the European license through the Andy Warhol Foundation. Pepe Jeans reputedly wants to embrace the Andy Warhol’s sophisticated sense of design and they aspire to make their denim as collectible as the man’s art.
BLUE BLOODS AW08 COLLECTION IS INSPIRED BY THE RESSURGENCE OF VINTAGE CLOTHING/ICONIC pieces that they have rebuilt with the passion of the originals and then delicately modernized and upgraded to suit modern tastes. The full collection is a celebration of classic style and this was inspired by studying a foundation of classic pieces and bringing them back to life. Both the men’s and ladies collections are littered with classic pieces of inspiration from the 50’s/60’s/70’s and 80’s including Military, Industrial Uniforms, Active Sportswear and Denim Archives. Examples include 1960’s Fire Brigade Melton Smocks, 1950’s Officers’ Uniforms, 1980’s Tracksuits and 1970’s 501’s.
Three stripes in denim? Adidas Originals and Diesel are the latest Co Lab Tag Team and are launching adidas Originals Denim by Diesel early next year. 2 menswear and 2 ladieswear styles will be available in four different washes exclusively at adidas Originals stores all around the world starting spring/summer 2008. Prices range from 160 Euro for the female adi-rohnary model up to 210 Euro for the male adi-viker model.
Here are a couple of shots from the Iron Army Clothing 2008 Collection. The Inspiration appears rugged and almost retro but the intention is very NOW!