One last entry to the Betafashion competition...

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Another entry...

Another design I've entered into the inception project on betafashion.com

Fabric and Jewels...

Mociun, based in Brooklyn New York, is a fashion must have, gracing the pages of Elle, Nylon and Travel & Leisure to start. A California native, Caitlin Mociun has lived all over the world and studied at Rhode Island School of Design. She creates traditionally styled contemporary fashion, incorporating sustainable fabrics, such as organic cotton and bamboo. Her wonderful work in print best demonstrates her eye and talent. Mociun is a trendsetter to be watched.

Photoshoot for womenswear a/w 2010

Pieces from the jewelry collection

A prelude to the modern man

I came across this wonderful photo shoot on Nepenthes New York which again points to the trend of the modern man following a softer direction...

'Let's Make History'

Let's Make History is a three-part story featuring selected merchandise from Nepenthes New York store's Spring Summer 2012 collections.

This project was shot by JIMA (jimagrapy.com) on location in and around Port Authority, 7th and 8th Avenues and Bryant Park.

Part 1

Hat-Sonic Lab

Glasses-Oliver Peoples for TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist

Feather Necklace-Vestibule

Shirt, Vest-Engineered Garments

Military Wrap Skirt-Rebuild by Needles

Pants-TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist

Trainers-New Balance

Part 2

Hat- TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist

Necklace, Ring- Vestibule, Bague-a-part

Cardigan, Blazer- Needles

Pants-Nepenthes New York

Shoes- McKinlay's

Part 3

Jacket-TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist

Button- HKMS x Playbutton

Vest,Shirt- Needles

Pants-Needles

Shoes- Allen Edmonds

Beautiful Silk Squares...

I stumbled upon this young french label Milleneufcentquatrevingtquatre, which is the year in which the duo were born...1984. They produce stunning scarves on silk, which would look equally well hung on any wall...definitely adding all of the below onto my wish list... They can be purchased from www.lexception.com ranging from €75 - €220.

Dover Street Market, Ginza.

In 2004, Rei Kawakubo, the genius behind the Japanese brand Comme des Garçons, introduced a new retail concept to London. Dover Street Market, named for its location in London’s tony Mayfair neighborhood, is a mash-up of market, department store and museum. Individual concessions handpicked by Kawakubo, which run the gamut from luxury labels like Lanvin and Azzedine Alaïa to the utilitarian wares of Labour & Wait and the edible goods of Rose Bakery, share space with art and design installations and the multiple labels in the Comme des Garçons fashion family. On the 12th of March of this year, Kawakubo opened Dover Street Market in Tokyo, doubling its size and placing it squarely in the center of Ginza, the city’s shopping mecca, where venerable department stores, luxury boutiques and the supersize flagship stores of brands like Uniqlo line the streets. 

Like its sister store in London, Dover Street Market Ginza (DSMG) hews to Kawakubo’s notion of “beautiful chaos.” "I want to create a kind of market where various creators from various fields gather together and encounter each other in an ongoing atmosphere of beautiful chaos: the mixing up and coming together of different kindred souls who all share a strong personal vision."


Dover Street Market is scheduled to open in New York in 2013.

Fabrics interseason s/s2011

While checking out the Hyeres 2012 schedule I came across Fabrics Interseason, here is a little info on their S/S 2011 collection entitled "(the) A-NORM: classic standards in styles of radical will“



etude, fis defines the image of an individual in phase. shape shifting, written into the surfaces of A-norm austrian national standards, transform global, political, social, ethnic, spiritual forms and norms. they emigrate, become transident. deviant, remixed with traditional bourgeois classic blends, minced halal, coded, contextualized, simultaneously cited: a signature look for fabrics interseason. modernly moldering. modern must’s. surface and form are projection screens, classification, implied action. substitute. social, e.g. political and cultural, dominance is negotiated and asserts its authority over style, life, body, design, art and fashion. enforcement of norm. within it, free radicals grow, generative sub-styles, styles of radical will. differentiation, at least improvement, for a socially and politically changing life, a housing with vision. respectively ws