Sruli Recht F/W 13
We are happy to share the lookbook of Sruli Recht’s Fall/Winter 2013 season. The collection is called Concentrated, a meditation on the many holocausts committed by humanity, past and present.
LONDON’S LN-CC REBOOTS
London’s favourite progressive retail store is located as far as possible from the obvious touristic shopping routes – in the heart of Hackney – and is only open to customers who request an appointment by phone or email ‘to control the amount of people in the store’ as its co-founder Dan Mitchell explains it. Though LN-CC (Late Night Chameleon Cafe) is a rather new store on the market, its clever mix of fashion brands, selection of books curated by Conor Donlon of the underground Donlon bookshop, and its rare Japanese music collection, hand-selected by Chee Shimizu, the owner of the Tokyo-based record store Organic Music, – has made the whole ‘concept-store’ idea sound exciting again. Recently, the shop underwent some renovations and last week I went to see what it was all about.
Boudicca F/W 2013
Entering Boudicca space at Vyner street, 45, I suddenly remembered why this address sounds familiar – designers used to host Halloween events here, for which they invited their fans to participate and show their baking skills in creating craziest cakes for the occasion. Results were unpredictable and sometimes impressive – cakes in shapes of human-size skeleton, broken hearts, and monsters. Boudicca fans have quite an imagination.
Alexandre Plokhov at Atelier New York
Dear readers,
If you happen to be in New York this Sunday, you can stop by Atelier New York (304 Hudson St.) where the Russian-born designer Alexandre Plokhov will be holding a trunk show. You will have an opportunity to meet the designer and order items from his Fall/Winter 2013 collection, which we thought strong, in the size, fabric, and colorway that fits your specifications.
Enslaved and Pallbearer at the Bowery Ballroom
It was the last night of their North American tour and Enslaved, the Norwegian black metal band, did not seem tired in the least. Coming off a stretch of shows to promote their new album RIITIIR, Enslaved toured the states with fellow bands Pallbearer, Ancient VVisdom and Royal Thunder. The Bowery Ballroom was sold out and most in attendance chose to stay in the main room, shirking the basement bar in order to hear the bands. Each performance brought with it a different sound from folk-metal (Ancient VVisdom) and southern doom rock (Royal Thunder) to Pallbearers brand of old-school doom and finally the prog-black metal that Enslaved have refined over the past 22 years.
SZ MIX | DANIEL FRANCO
Hey SZ Fam,
As a fan of the “harder” side of music I decided to start by putting together a small collection of Doom-Metal together for your aural pleasure. These are some greats, both old and new, from bands like Neurosis, Jesu, Ahab, Isis and My Silent Wake. Each of these tracks will lull you into a trance-like state before reaching into your head and jiggling your brain about in it’s fluid. Best listened to with the volume very, very loud.
Enjoy….or suffer my wrath.
SZ Mix – Sruli Recht
Dear Internet,
Here is my aural journey:
Beginning with When Gravity Fails, two tracks, Moving through Cast By Shadows, Field Dressing, and up through Circumsolar, the birth of my son and the songs that put we sing to entertain or put him to sleep, and most recent collection Concentrated – these are the various and categorically unrelated songs probably most listened to during these milestones of the past two and a half years.
There is no real unification behind these tracks, but they capture past and present parts of my life. Each of these musicians, their words or sounds, captivate and take me to creative and inspiring places.
Sruli Recht
Alexandre Plokhov Fall/Winter 2013-14
Dear readers,
Check out the video for the new Alexandre Plokhov collection. And watch this space for an exclusive update from his showroom next week.
SZ MIX – BORIS BIDJAN SABERI
Dear all,
These songs were my daily bread in the 90s, when as a teenager I would speed my skateboard through the stony streets of my Traunstein suburb that were so ill-fitted for skating. It felt like total freedom to me and it still does today on the smooth, skateable streets of Barcelona.
I really hope you enjoy these tracks.
All my best,
Boris
Siki Im Fall/Winter 2013, Paris
We would like to present to you Siki’s Fall/Winter 2013 Paris collection.