We’re not big jewelery wearers ourselves, but there’s something about Ann Demeulemeester’s Feather Necklace that makes us want to wear it. Check it out at Komakino’s online shop. We think you’ll agree.
((Daily Desire)) Ann Demeulemeester | Feather necklace
DEVOA | Destruction & Construction
Speaking of Japanese menswear, we love Daisuke Nishida’s line DEVOA.
Interestingly, Nishida’s a former athlete and medical trainer who’s turned to clothing design, and it’s not what you’d expect. Although, now that we think of it, it’s exactly what we’d expect from a former Japanese jock turned designer.
DEVOA’s “mission statement” reads: Our research starts with the understanding of the natural human body movements. DEVOA constructs of pattern toward movement of skin, muscle, and frame for an action. The human body keeps evolving and degenerating which are one and indivisible as the ages go by. We express clothing based on hypothesis and the theory of evolution which DEVOA interprets.
UnderCover SS10
Jun Takahashi’s Spring/Summer 2010 collections were big new during Milan Fashion Week. Now that the dust has settled, we’re posting the pics here for you to check out. First up, the men’s collection “LESS BUT BETTER”.
Viewing Tokyo-techno streetwear marching around a sumptuous ornamental classical lake was just the beginning of a gently unreal night devised by Jun Takahashi in Florence’s Renaissance Boboli Gardens. Takahashi had brought his Undercover crew to these unlikely surroundings at the invitation of Pitti Uomo, and he seemed to be relishing his first excursion into presenting a menswear-only collection.
Before the show, he ducked outside the changing tent to explain the rationale: This was clothing inspired by the reductive principles of industrial product designer Dieter Rams, whose dictum “Less, but better” was appropriated as the collection’s title. “I’m a collector of his Braun products,” Takahashi said, “I met him at the end of last month when he was in Tokyo for his retrospective. He came to my studio and looked through my sketchbook and said he liked it. What I do is casual daily clothes, not too much fashion, but with hidden functionalism in an Undercover way. What we perceived from Rams is the simple but beautiful touch that exists after discarding unnecessity.” So, is this a new minimalism redux? He nodded: “Skinny for the mind.”
New York Stories | Ju$t Another Rich Kid
New York artist, and designer Ju$t Another Rich Kid picked 5 of his favorite hometown creatives including himself, who were photographed by Brooklyn’s Paul Mpagi Sepuya for Portuguese lifestyle magazine Zoot. We’ll be showcasing said photos along with the questions and answers posed to the designers, artists, and musicians over the next few weeks.
Name and Occupation
Artist/ Designer / Media Mogul
When did you move to New York?
1998 from San Francisco
What drew you here?
Everything.
What keeps you here?
Everything.
New York has changed a lot of the past several years. What do you miss most about “old” New York?
The quirkiness. Even though New York is still more diverse than other cities, I miss the one-off shops, coffee shops, restaurants, etc. that have been replaced by chains. I also miss street hookers.
Current projects?
Working on a guerrilla art show with Charles Lutz, a new line of tees, and, of course, new gold things.
Wayne Gonzales @ Paula Cooper
It’s a long weekend, which means all of you who are usually as busy as we are have time to do some pre-holiday gallery hopping. If you get a chance, stop by Paula Cooper Gallery to see the new body of paintings by Wayne Gonzales.
Wayne Gonzales’ work navigates the shifting ground between representation and abstraction, the photographic and the painterly. Since he started showing in the mid-nineties, Gonzales has largely taken photographic images as his sources, investing them with renewed psychological depth. Breaking down images and re-constructing them with a technique owing as much to digital precision as to the vagaries of the painter’s hand, Gonzales unsettles our received notions of what images mean and creates a blank space onto which the viewer can project his or her own subjectivity.
Check Paula Cooper’s site for more info on Gonzales and additional images of the work in the show.
Wayne Gonzales
Paula Cooper (521 W. 21st St/New York)
Through 12.18.09
Happy Thanksgiving from the East Village
Happy Thanksgiving from the East Village NYC! No, this pic isn’t blurry b/c we don’t have a tripod. We think it’s because you’ve had too much to drink!! Gobble gobble.
Ramona Falls
Soooooo much music. Check out Portland band Ramona Falls. We love them…him.
Ramona Falls is Brent Knopf’s first solo venture, but he has an extensive musical resume as part of trio Menomena. For the Ramona Falls project (named after a childhood hiking trail on Mt. Hood), Brent collaborated extensively with musicians in Portland and New York.
He has a cat, a raging chocolate addiction, and a penchant for weaving acoustic and electronic sounds into songs that feel at once real and surreal. His debut album, intuit, is out now. Check out Ramona Falls on MySpace, become a fan on Facebook, and check out his artist page on Barsuk’s site. It took us a few listens to warm up to it, but now we’re ADDDDIIIIICTED. Shocking, we know.
N.I.C.E. COLLECTIVE | Leather Jacket Hunt
Keep your eyes peeled N.I.C.E. Collective fans!
A once joined pair of Siamese leather jackets have been divided/split/detached and ingeniously hidden in separate cities, on opposite coasts, for 2 keen explorers to locate. Navigate with a band of N.I.C.E. Collective friends and supporters in a mad pursuit through obscure corners and locations in your city.
On December 1st, N.I.C.E. Collective and STOREROOM begin dispensing data on the location of the leather jackets, which are stashed deep in the trenches of New York and San Francisco. Tune into Facebook, Twitter and N.I.C.E. Collective STOREROOM for tracking clues. The challenge: To cleverly decode evidence and locate the jackets before the final coordinates are released, which will be sometime in the first couple weeks of December.
Lost and Found SS10
One of our favorite lines — Lost and Found — has just updated their site with images from the Spring/Summer 2010 collection that we wanted to share with you. Hopefully, you’ll love it as much as we do. Can you believe in less than 24 hours we’ve done TWO posts on womenswear? What’s the world coming to?!
Make sure to check out their site for more pics and a complete list of stockists that carries the line worldwide.
Ground Zero
We just came across an indie, British womenswear line called Ground-Zero that you should check out.
Ground-Zero was established in 2003 by 2 young and talented brothers: Eri and Philip Chu. They started with an emphasis on unique graphic print, creating looks not only literally but through attitudes, moods and thoughts. With their fashion savvy, they have totally distorted the old couture culture through subversive reinterpretations of the causal look.
Each collection is a new experiment with no rules. The designers — like physicists — believe that every garment has a mix of elements that effect the final design.
The line is carried at some of the best boutiques worldwide, including Seven, Lane Crawford, Harvey Nichols, Isetan, Restir, United Arrows, and Club 21. Check out their site for more images from past collections, collaborations, the designers’ bio, and a complete list of stockists.
