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 Compass had to offer.
Photography by Jacob Krupnick.
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 pop culture icons. Most famously a bloodied nose Kate Moss on which she so eloquently said:
“I denounce and praise this addict model who’s a role model for millions of boys and girls nowadays. It’s an ephemeral and temporal illustration, and the actual impact it creates will be irrelevant in a time. That’s its strength, it defines this era perfectly. It defines the fleetingness of fame.”
I’m not going to pretend that I totally agree with what she’s saying, as I didn’t listen enough in English class to understand even half of what that means. But I’m sure it nicely sums up what she was going for.
Anyway, you can buy her tees direct from her at the Elena Gallen online store
More photos after the jump
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 notes, change and coins secure and if they do have a button flap for coins its usually tiny.
People say to me “Oh, just put your coins in your pocket, It’s what I do” No thanks. Well anyway, Comme des Garcons seem to have to conquered my problem. A fat section for coins, notes and cards all zipped and plaid up, Lovely!
Purchase Wood Wood or at Dover Street Market for £105
More photos of the wallet after the jump
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 printed with a few colours can make the production prices shoot up like mad, So when you’ve nailed a top design with a basic stock colour you’re sorted.
Modern Lovers started with a collection of T-shirts for Spring 2009 and they seem to be going down good, well good enough to go into a cut&sew Ready-To-Wear collection for A/W 09.
Buy online at the Modern Lovers Etsy store
More photos after the jump
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 seem to find anything like this in Menswear. Certainly refreshing.
I wanted to buy a piece but unfortunately I found out that they’re only stocked at International Gallery Beams in Tokyo. They’re showing at MAN in London this month so I’m sure that will all be changing. (Hopefully anyway)
More photos after the jump.
