Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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

Sunday, May 6, 2012

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.











Tuesday, May 1, 2012

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









Saturday, April 28, 2012

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Dancefloor Diplomacy...We are ready

The experimental duo, which strongly supports creative inclusion and a frequent band member turnover, turned into a 20 person band for the purpose of “We Are Ready.” No man out. No instrument left behind. The track was recorded completely live (no sampling), and touches upon 38 different songs often featuring well over 10 instruments simultaneously, including a small choir of voices.






The 38 songs are: Aphex Twin “Jynweythek Ylow” • Blur “Song 2″ • Britney Spears “Toxic” • Broken Social Scene “Pacific Theme” • Claude Debussy “Clair de Lune” • Deerhunter “Desire Lines” • DMX “What’s My Name” • Dr. Dre “Kush” & “What’s the Difference” • DJ Shadow “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt” • Fabolous “Breathe” • Flying Lotus “Massage Situation” • Franz Schubert “Der Doppelganger” • Fugees “Ready or Not” • Girl Talk “Hold Up” • Holy Other “Touch” • Hot Chip “Ready for the Floor” • Joanna Newsom “Peach Plum Pear” • Julee Cruise “Falling” • King Harvest “Dancing in the Moonlight” • Lady GaGa “Telephone” • Lee Erwin “Thief of Baghdad” • Ludacris “Move” • Massive Attack “Teardrop” • Mount Kimbie “Maybes” • Nas “Represent” • Otis Redding “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” • P. Diddy “Bad Boys For Life” • Ratatat “Seventeen Years” • RJD2 “1976″ • The Bloody Beetroots “Butter” • TV on the Radio “Staring at the Sun (EP Version)” • White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” • Yasunori Mitsuda “Wind Scene”


 At its debut at Manhattan’s Lower East Side’s Anthology Film Archives, early last March, the song and video accompaniment received critical acclaim.  For now I'm eagerly awaiting their next masterpiece...

Psychedelic Clash...

A gorgeous editorial, mixing up floral, animal and psychedelic 70s prints, featuring (one of the trendiest models of the moment) Charlotte Free, with an amazing styling work by Grace Cobb and photography by Elena Rendina for Wonderland Magazine Dec. 2011