GUIDI EVENT IN NEW YORK
GUIDI EVENT IN NEW YORK
Haider Ackermann
Several days after his Spring/Summer 2016 men’s show Haider Ackermann was in his showroom, which was buzzing with buyers. Ackermann came down from the top floor of the building where he was already shooting the looks for his e-commerce platform, to be launched soon.
Veronique Branquinho: To Be Free
I meet Veronique Branquinho on the 21st floor of a high rise in Chelsea where she’s showing her pre-Spring 2016 collection. She’s in a corner suite with floor-to-ceiling windows that glance out over the Hudson, where industrial barges and cruise ships coarse by in clouds of spray and vapor. The evening is pearly grey and the room feels weightless, suspended up here in a box of steel and glass. Weightless, too, is the effect of the collection: dresses, all white and long, draped on a sparse cluster of forms with a lone live model at their center. Her dress is black with leather straps and falls to the floor. I think of Greek columns and their counterpart in ancient draperies, where the cloth is suspended simply from the shoulders and takes shape only with the moving body.
Studio Visit: Iris van Herpen
Our photographer Matthew Reeves recently visited the Amsterdam atelier of the designer Iris van Herpen. His report is below.
Comme des Garcons: Floriental
Comme des Garcons is no stranger to the perfume business and has been knocking out great scents year after year at a good clip. Its new fragrance, Floriental, comes from the idea of reimagining a flower that has no scent (in this case, the Cistus flower). It also redefines traditional notions of perfume-making with no definite top, middle, or base scent notes.
GUIDI – NEW YORK
GUIDI – NEW YORK
Alexandre Plokhov S/S 16 Men’s – New York
We would like to present to you Alexandre Plokhov’s Spring/Summer 2016 men’s collection.
Alexandre Plokhov S/S 16 Men’s Backstage – New York
We would like to present to you Alexandre Plokhov’s Spring/Summer 2016 men’s collection backstage.
Thom Browne S/S 16 Men’s – New York
Yesterday, Thom Browne presented a capsule menswear collection for the inaugural men’s fashion week in New York. The presentation, titled The Officeman, was held at nine in the morning, but Browne is one of the very few designers whose work demands such commitment from the fashion crowd.
The presentation was held in what was essentially a concrete cube. The line was long as only twenty people at a time were allowed in (the complimentary coffee and croissants helped). But it was well worth it. Once you stepped inside you found yourself in a completely mirrored room. In it was an office desk with a typewriter and some stationary items, all polished like heirloom silver on a wedding day.
Cedric Jacquemyn S/S16 – Lookbook
We would like to present to you Cedric Jacquemyn’s Spring/Summer 2016 men’s collection lookbook.