conspiracy with trevelen

Stussy X NEIGHBORHOOD - Boneyards II

dior homme - spring/summer 2011

darker is the memory

Raquel Zimmermann for Vogue Nippon 
shot by Mario Sorrenti

sexy beast

Photography by Neil Moto

Dior Homme - "Un Rendez Vous"

Directed by Guy Ritchie and Starring Jude Law

the house that ralph built

Twenty-five years ago, when Ralph Lauren converted Madison Avenue’s magnificent Rhinelander mansion—one of the last remaining turn-of-the-century grand homes in Manhattan—into his New York flagship store, he did much more than set a new standard for luxury retail spaces. Built in 1898, the imposing French Renaissance Revival home serves as a stage on which Lauren can arrange his creations to conjure tableaux of a bygone era when gracious living was very nearly an art form. For years, the rooms of the house, which are adorned with decorative carpets, period furniture, crystal chandeliers, and tastefully appointed accessories, provided an elegant and cordial context for Lauren’s comprehensive men’s, women’s, and home collections. The timelessness of his style—which contrasts sharply with the fleeting trends that define much of the fashion world—has enabled the designer’s brand to maintain its enviable position as a market leader for decades. His classic sensibility, however, also embraces change: In September—?in commemoration of the New York store’s original opening—Lauren plans to redefine his vision for life well lived with his men’s store’s official unveiling....(read more after the jump)

keds for opening ceremony

The next round of Keds for Opening Ceremony sneakers see the resurrection of the Keds Camp Oxford with some added French “je-ne-sais-quoi.” Designed by artist Richard Saja, the oxfords feature recontextualized French toile prints embellished with clever, playful twists on monochromatic pastoral scenes.

Anyone familiar with “Toile de Jouy” — a print that originated in 1700s France — would most likely associate it with the sweet, girly Marie Antoinette-style decor of grandma’s dining room, but Richard’s reinterpretations subvert the expected daintiness by inserting figures reminiscent of the artist’s childhood doodles: superheroes, monsters, clowns, and mutants. The end result recalls something else along the lines of fabric graffiti, or comic strip tapestry. 

via Highsnobiety

new era x original fake

gratuitous sex and violence

Photography by Alva Bernadine

imaginary friends

Photography by Theo Mercier

metal couture

Mixed Media Works by Manuel Albarran

postcards from paris

Thom Browne - Paris Debut

New York's loss is Paris's gain. For his debut show here, Thom Browne paraded an army of astronauts who removed their spacesuits to reveal shrunken shorts suits in a vast array of classic Thom fabrics - Valerio Mezzanotti for the New York Times

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New Paintings from Francoise Nielly

i heart Watanabe

Junya Watanabe Spring 2011 runway

"He Wears It" Style Wars Fashion Illustration by John Woo

Body Language

The some of the most intriguing concepts are often stemmed from the simplest of ideas and Amandine Alessandra, a British graphic designer, is living proof. Amandine created a project called "Wearable Lettering', which is changing the way we define body language. These performance typefaces play with bodies which are unconscious of the message they are conveying and plus they set an estranged scene.

(Click on the image above to see it in motion.)

The image above references the (real) passing of time in an everlasting choreography, with people standing as the Hours moving only once every 60 minutes, while the individual acting as the tenths of Seconds executes a very fast routine in a continual move.
Used in this specific context and by using people as a medium, this temporary letterform confronts the economic value of time (as in time is money) with the individual perception of it. What was achieved with this experiment with wearable type was a hic et nunc letterform, a letterform for the here and now, finding its raison d’être when used in real time.