The Society Of The Spectacle

I was delving back into the archives of the Sartorialist yesterday, and found Scott’s and Garance’s breakdown of the launch of Reed Krakoff’s debut collection at New York Fashion week, way back in February. Now I know some people who work for the brand (an offshoot of the mighty Coach brand), and was interested to how this collection was received. The consensus seems to be very well indeed! A little bit more digging led me to this video on Style.com, which is a collaboration between the filmmaker Steven Sebring and Mr Krakoff himself. It reminded me alot of The Selby collaboration with Louis Vuitton that I blogged about last month, well made, insightful, and a great way of establishing interest and insight into the brand. Take a look.

Up now on Oki-Ni, are some amazing shoes from the super cool and stunningly crafted Mr Hare. Here’s a man with a deep deep passion for great shoes, and great craftsmanship. I also love the resolute ‘anti’ fashioness of the whole arrangement, Mr Hare, who has proudly talks (in his fantastic bio) about his no formal training, these are made for action, for walking, for dancing, for prowling and looking damn good doing it. Here’s a couple of faves (after the jump) from the current season at Dover Street Market and available at Oki-Ni. One day, when I’ve saved up… (more…)

Super imaginative breakdown of the catwalk looks, from the straight down the line, to the truly bizarre. Fashematics let the air out of fashions more pompous moments. It helps it’s seriously funny. Check out a cheeky selection after the jump. (more…)

Trawling through PSFK, I saw this rather strange idea from Swedish designer Ann Sofie Back (and her ad team We Are Group) Spinning the now overused “Pop Up Store” concept (Kingsmill pop up store anyone? Yeah I thought not) into a much more outlandish and provocative concept; the hostage store.

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V Magazine have this month dedicated to exploring, in beautiful fashion of course the Plus Size model. Photographer’s such as the indomitable Terry Richardson and the beautifully high concept Solve Sundsbø have shot some great editorial.

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New Kitsuné film….