For Summer 2009, the label Romance Was Born have looked to the seashore- and particuarly shells for their inspiration. Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett, the Australian brains behind this label both met while studying at East Sydney Tech then after both entering a European fashion contest together as competitors they decided to launch Romance Was [...]
It’s really cool to see a designer bridge the gap between streetwear and high fashion, It’s even cooler to see it presented on the catwalk at a fashion week - It’s just not something you see very often.
Currently theirs a huge saturation in the streetwear market with everyone producing T-shirt lines and very rarely making [...]
White Trumpet is a young line by the designers Reno Inchenko & Julie Rouziou, both based in East London. SS09 is very mathematically inspired - with it’s individual geometric shapes. Such cool designs but I wouldn’t want to be the pattern cutter for them! Each individual panel is a separate folded pattern piece.
More of the collection [...]
Blood is the New Black launched 2004 in California. The concept of it is to give unknown artists a break into the industry by them each having their own page on the website. Collectively, they’re all under the same BITNB label but they’re given the freedom to be known and not shrouded by the brand.
They’ve [...]
Mary Meyer founded her self titled line in Fall 2005, Then in 2006 she moved from Oakland, CA to Brooklyn, NY where she has ran her label ever since.
She’s got a similar aesthetic to neighboring NYC line Sophomore - but where they are more reliant on the classic staple shapes, Mary Meyer has more of [...]
Rebecca Torres is a Glasgow based designer. She graduated in 2007 from Caledonian University, she then went onto launch her label ‘TORRES‘ in April 2008 which since has been profiled in magazines such as Borne and Vice.
Her collections are totally made up of clingy stretch fabrics and bold geometric patterns. It’s really cool to see [...]
Father and son line, Casely Hayford is a thoroughly English label. If I ever decide to go shooting Pheasants with high society I think I’m going to have to be kitted out in their 60% classic english, 40% streetwear inspired line.
They’re serious about keeping to the classic Savile Row craftsmanship techniques; I’d say it certainly [...]
Sophie Hulme launched her own line only a year after graduating from Kingston University in 2007, a few seasons later and her collections are still going strong and growing.
She’s had quite a bit of commercial success too for such a young designer, being stocked in Selfridges Oxford Street and B-Store on Savile Row
I particularly love [...]
I’ve only slightly been keeping track of Japan Fashion Week since it started last Monday in Tokyo, but for me the highlight has to be Gentaro Noda’s label, ‘Heath‘.
Gentaro is a Central Saint Martins Menswear graduate, who since graduating has moved back to Japan where he then went on to launch his first line named [...]
It looks like NY based Libertine have looked to public schoolboys for their SS09 collection. There’s a lot of fine details on most of the garments such as the lapel detailing above, which for me really pulls the collection as a whole together.
SS09 is way stronger than their AW09 (check that out at mens.style) which [...]
