Acne killed it for fall. Can you tell how there is basically no black [well, almost none] in my top favorites from the entire collection? That is so rare.. which is why I love the collection that much more.
Its great that the menswear business has been growing and expanding, especially the past few seasons. Shows at Pitti Immagine and men’s street style have been getting extra special attention [with good reason], which can only mean one thing: brands have to up the design. My favorite 10 collections from Milan for Fall 2012 include Bottega Veneta, Burberry Prorsum, Calvin Klein Collection, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Missoni, Neil Barrett, Valentino and Z Zegna. Why these 10? They’ve updated staple mens clothing [ie. suits, button down shirts, coats/jackets and accessories] for the modern man. [[ Z Zegna was an absolute delight. The colors, silhouettes and proportions were spot on for me. ]] [[ Bottega Veneta: Thomas Maier took suits to another level with cutout shapes and borders…
I was out shopping two weeks ago with Karen and it was the most random day. We stopped by Barneys to see if there were any Céline Boston totes [in medium], grabbed coffee/tea and macarons, bumped into Bryanboy outside Bergdorf, visited the Bergdorf/Marc by Marc Jacobs/Teen Vogue event and was shot by the Bill Cunningham. That next Sunday, I hunted down a Sunday Times but didn’t find anything. My surgery + Thanksgiving totally occupied my mind for the past two weeks and I completely forgot about it until Karen texted me a few minutes ago to tell me about this: [[ New York Times // On The Street, Off Leash ]] “Young men showed no signs this fall of being shoved back into the…
When I flip through lookbooks [paper and digital], there are so many times when the inspiration does not come through in the final images. “Nordic romance of Scandinavia” was inspiration for this collection by Kate and Laura Mulleavy and it is perfectly reflected, thanks to the styling, modeling [by Stephan Haurholm] and photographing [by Autumn de Wilde]. I am captivated. I especially love the story that the first shirt tells. How charming is it? Even more charming is the women’s collection [via StyleCaster].
Remember my post [way back in 2009] about the Mad Men Brooks Brothers suit for $998 on modmen? It’s crazy how things come full circle. I recently stopped by Banana Republic to check out.. you guessed it, their Mad Men Collection. I didn’t just post about that Brooks Brothers suit that I so badly wanted.. nooo. My first fashion blog was modmen and the concept was inspired by Mad Men. Mad Men were ad men in the 60s and modmen was a play off of that.. modern men in the 2010s. That transformed into the modman. So you can imagine my excitement when I walked through the Banana Republic store at Rockefeller Center to preview the collection. Banana Republic creative director Simon Kneen worked…