Check out Tim Hamilton’s collection for Fall/Winter 2010. It’s an amazingly unique mix of preppy/classic type styles infused with super chic — kinda like a pile of LL Bean and J Crew pieces were put in the washing machine on the “shred and blend” cycle with a pile of clothes from Dior Homme and Rick Owens. The collection is incredibly wearable, but light years away from classic anything. In short, it’s hot.
See for yourself in the images below.
If you’re in New York, stop by Yancey Richardson Gallery and check out Week-end, an exhibition of new work by Alex Prager and the third installment in the photographic trilogy of staged female portraits by the Los Angeles-based artist.
Simultaneous with this show in New York, Week-end will be shown at the M + B Gallery in Los Angeles.
Through her constructed narratives and dramatic portraits, Prager explores a range of female types from vulnerable to powerful, from tragic to tender and from coolly detached to literally playing with fire. Prager’s photographs are inspired by and set in her native city of Los Angeles, a place the artist describes as “A strange picture of perfection…with a sense of unease under the surface of all this beauty and promise.”
Dancer turned designer — Romain Kremer — showed his Fall/Winter 2010 collection in Paris recently and we love it. What we liked most is his brilliant mix of wearable designs and playful pieces, which in the realm of men’s fashion is a unique combination, where collections tend to either be very wearable or not at all. What men’s fashion needs on the runway is more dreamers, more artists, and more collections full of stuff we’d never think about wearing or buying, but really enjoy seeing.
Between performances and do-it-yourself, he will establish a phantasmagorical universe, on the border of the realism, the useful, the bearable, which will lead him to a special price during the Festival of Hyères in 2005 and the access to the Fondation Cartier which will welcome him for a lunar performance.
With all the new collections we’ve been covering lately, we almost forgot about one of our old favorites — Italian sneakers brand D.A.T.E. We got our hands on pics from their Spring/Summer collection and wanted to share them with you.
Don’t forget to check out their site for more info on the line, more images, and a list of shops worldwide that carry these uber hip kicks.
We’re not quite sure what’s up with all the calfskin these days, but HOPEFULLY, like wool + sheep, they can get the skin from the calf without having to … you know… because we love everything about these Waxed Calfskin Boots by Italian shoemakers Preventi.
See for yourself in LUISAVIAROMA’s eShop. More pix after the click!
We don’t quite know what to make of Swedish band The Soundtrack of Our Lives. We can’t stop listening to (some) the songs on their MySpace, but if we start to think about it, it makes us first feel old then we have flashbacks of our quasi hippie/crunchy college phase and it makes us a little depressed. Then we listen to Flipside for the 10th time today and we just stop thinking and enjoy the music.
The Soundtrack of Our Lives is an alternative rock band which formed in 1995 in Göteborg, Sweden. Most of the band’s members were formerly members of the influential Swedish punk band Union Carbide Productions.
The band had three very successful records in Sweden before their critically acclaimed breakthrough US release in 2001, Behind the Music, which was nominated for the Best Alternative Album award at the 2003 Grammy Awards.
Funny how our tastes change. While we haven’t completely turned our bag on small charms and thin chains for guys, we’ve found a few lines of jewelry lately that are anything but that we’ve fallen in love with. First, it was Workstatt:Muenchen and now a collection by Italian accessories designer Ugo Cacciatori.
Currently out for women is a collection called the Octopus Collection: the time to face the island has come. A last glance to the shore unexpectedly reveals further evidence attracting the attention of our adventurer. Tiny pearls, simply anchored to silver collets framing their natural beauty. Clustered in random complex shapes,they seem to mimic already met treasures though in their original way. Falling silver chains imprisoning the minute metallic-toned spheres, others jointed to create animated grapes as muscles seized to a rope submerged for centuries, they all look like relics of a wreck.
Swiss luxury underwear brand Zimmerli of Switzerland held a contest to get some fresh blood in to re-launch their most prestigious men’s line Richelieu.
The Richelieu line is top-notch — made from cotton that is the best 4% of cotton worldwide. That means super soft, yet strong and long-lasting. It’s so good, Marc Jacobs collaborates with Zimmerli for his signature line of underwear – the only person in the world the Swiss perfectionists have granted this right to.
The re-launched line was created by 2 fashion students from Basel, who created a more youthful, fashionable product with a sleeker cut and chic twists on the original style, all the while maintaining the history, comfort, and quality that Zimmerli is known for.
It’s all about the Italians lately for us. Up this week a super chic pair of sneakers by Italian shoe company Pantofola d’Oro.
Once upon a time there was Pantofola d’Oro, the brand of true craftsmanship, which believed that every product has a soul and that quality was its most important foundation…
Click here for your chance to win!
Another one of our favorite menswear designers — South Korea’s Juun J. — has just sent us images from his Fall/Winter 2010 collection and it’s hot!
The former Club Monaco designer, branched out on his own in 1999 and has shown during the Seoul Fashion Week until 2007 when he began showing in Paris. He has also collaborated several times with the Japanese artist Nuts and the English artist Simon Henwood.
Juun J. likes to create new silhouettes and garments from an overlapping of items and silhouette to silhouette all of which dramatically conflict with each other. Shirts and cardigans, knit sleeved jackets and knitwear are overlapping each other and newly born as different items. Juun J. likes to mix and transform classic items with street fashion.
