Entries from February 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Keep an eye on these: Jaiden rVa James

Jaiden rVa James are a young duo from London, who go by names of Jaiden James and Rasharn De Vera Agyemang.
I really love how they’ve brought traditional african culture into a contempory collection through the prints. I recently did a very similar collection project on african tribes so it’s really cool to see how [...]

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

The Courtney Love and Hedi Slimane shoot

Hedi Slimane, the iconic Fashion designer, now iconic Photographer has photographed Courtney Love. That picture above was enough for me to want to make this post. I think it’s the way you see her eyes through the wedding veil.
Hedi has his own photo blog, which if you haven’t already seen should be your next port [...]

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony

Chloe Sevigny has created a capsule collection for the second time at Opening Ceremony, that’s that mad shop in NYC (and now LA) which stocks new designers from a certain country and just keeps swapping the country every now and then. I think PonyStep had a nice in depth interview with them once, yeah here [...]

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Colin Henderson x Beyond the Valley

I’m having a bit of a hard time trying to find out on the internet who Colin Henderson is, but all I know is that he’s an pretty amazing artist.
He quite recently collaborated with London store Beyond the Valley (Which has an interesting story itself) to design a graphic Qashqai knit crew neck jumper. I’m [...]

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Sophomore NYC

Other than having one of the best lookbook photograph collections I’ve seen in a while, Sophomore also have probably one of the best basic staple collections you can buy. I certainly think it beats American Apparel for staple style.
I never really totally got the whole AA hype thats been going on recently, myself. Although I [...]

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Refreshing Hightops from Compass Show

Above: HeyDay
There where loads of great new shoes at February’s Compass show. I particularly love what Alife, Clae, HeyDay and Pony have been up to. They certainly make a nice change from your usual Nike dunks or Adidas.

Above: Pony & Alife

My favorites are below. Check out WeAreTheMarket for a way bigger selection of what [...]

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Elena Gallen: Another great T-Shirt designer

Here’s another Illustrative T-Shirt designer I’ve come across lately. Elena Gallen isn’t a full on T-shirt label with PR staff pushing her 24/7 yet she’s able to class Giles Deacon and Wendy James as customers.
Most of her current tees tend to follow the same cool illustration concept, that hand drawn but still perfect design of [...]

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Comme des Garçons plaid wallet

I don’t know when they released this, but I’ve just noticed a lovely Comme des Garçons on the Wood Wood website.
You see, my problem with wallets is that they never seem to be a good all rounder, and if they are in terms of performance then you can generally bet they’re fugly. I want my [...]

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Mad B&W tees by Modern Lovers

I’m seriously in love with that cat print from newly founded label, Modern Lovers. At the moment I’m really into the plain black illustration T-shirts.
What a great & simple style to get right for new labels? I know from my attempts at starting labels off (which I’m still going for) is that getting T-shirts screen [...]

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

New talent: Sibling Knitwear

One new label who I’ve only recently got on to is Sibling. They’re a small knitwear label based out of London, ran by Joe Bates, Sid Bryan and Cozette McCreery who have all worked at top designers such as Alexander McQueen, Lanvin and Giles Deacon.
I don’t know if I’m not looking far enough, but I never [...]