Oki Ni are pushing the 80s iconic digital classic, a Timex watch! The indigo backlight rocks. Yellow for me, please.
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Sublime or ridiculous? Whatever, there certainly isn’t anything that beats a hand finished touch to your denim. It’s all very well Levi’s producing decent replica Big E jeans, but the quality of those has dropped significantly over the last few years as machines have tried to replicate the ageing details. APC have rectified this “problem” with their Butler Worn Out jeans, properly worn through by real people, I’d imagine each pair to be rather individual and probably very well detailed. Hopefully they’ll have been dry cleaned though.
From Hypebeast
Vans are in the process of releasing a range of shoes and saddlebags designed with fixie riders in mind. The usual cotton canvas has been replaced with a ballistic nylon (love that description), which means they should be ultra hard-wearing. If they had any sense they would also use a harder compound for the sole, or insert a harder section behind the ball of the foot, so it’s stiffer in the toe clip; but we’ll see. I personally really like the white version. They all have 3M reflective patches, which may or may not help a car see you hurtling down a hill, brakeless, at 40kmh. the white version gets thescrapbook seal of approval.
all pics courtesy of crooked tongues.
The Spring 2009 Menswear has disappointed so far (In my opinion) but one label that rarely lets you down is Comme des Garçons.
View the Whole collection here
Kim Jones is currently contributing over at NYT to their ‘The Moment’ blog, a sub section of their T magazine. Worth checking out…
Kim Jones on his involvement and inspirations for his recent work with Dunhill.
Is everything going to be OK and other brilliant mini sites from Converse. Check them all out, but they includes the infamous Kissing with Ross and the surreal At least you’re not lost at sea. Out of your league girl is fairly amusing for singles, and Chucks In Soda might replicate the Diet Coke and Mentos experiments, we’ll see. Funny, short, sharp and nicely viral. Try it with Kissing with Ross… actually, don’t. Check out the whole list of sites here
Possibly made by Anomaly NYC. Whut.
Luxist reports on a row at Savile Row over the UK Advertising Standards Authority’s brand new ruling that suits which are not entirely handmade may now be sold as “bespoke.” It has horrified some Savile Row stalwarts who’ve long fought to protect their trade from such encroachments; late last year tailor’s guild the Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) trademarked the term “Savile Row Bespoke” to prevent parvenus from taking unfair advantage. According to the SRBA’s guidelines, to qualify as bespoke a suit must be crafted from a choice of at least 2,000 fabrics and its construction requires at least 50 hours of hand-stitching.
SRBA board member Anda Rowland, owner of storied 100-year-old Row house Anderson & Sheppard, is rather stoical though: anyone who would be content with a faux-Row suit merely made-to-measure was “never a true bespoke customer in the first place” and that any connoisseur “will ultimately be able to spot the difference between true bespoke tailoring and incorrectly labelled imitations.”
Read what the Luxist has to say here or alternatively, The FT
There are loads of pop-up or guerilla stores (Commes Des Garcon’s being the most consistent, and Prada’s being the most impractical) but Ikea have made a pop up apartment in Union Square NYC.
