Dear readers,
Please check out the work of Nico Uytterhaegen, the Belgian designer who produces some brilliant bags, footwear, jewelry and a perfume series. We are glad to share the showroom space with Nico in Paris during the men’s fashion week next month at 13 rue de Thorigny in the Marais district.
“It’s all about embodiment in the digital age,” – I overheard at the opening of the Iris Van Herpen’s exhibition at SHOWcabinet, Belgravia’s new installation space curated by Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio project. The man who said it was Tobias Klein, one of the artists whose work accompanies Van Herpen’s in SHOWcabinet. His sculptures shown here include an extract from The Invisible Human, a 3D-printed Magnetic Resonance Image of a human abdomen with aluminium sulphate crystals grown over it in a process that echoes those occurring in the body when it is dying. If this sounds a bit complex, it is because Klein’s work, just like that of most participants’, oscillates between art and science.
Dear readers,
We want to introduce to you another outstanding under-the-radar brand, Piece d’Anarchive. We came across their clothes at Susan of Burling Game in San Francisco and we were thoroughly blown away by the quality of fabrics and construction. They do best what we love vest – take the traditional values of craftsmanship and make them absolutely modern.
From the 29th to the 31st of May 2013, during the Preview days for 55th International Art Biennale, Paris-based under-the-radar label Aganovich will join forces with Venetian brand Setecento to present a womenswear capsule collection at Bauers l’Hotel in Venice.
In 2011 Zhao Wu and Chen-Ling Fan decided to solve an all-too-familiar problem – how to offer interesting basics without breaking the customers’ bank. Thus VOIDTHEBRAND, the line of not-so-basic men’s tops was born.
The business opportunity seemed a no-brainer. There clearly is a void to fill, as there is significant demand from those who want to neither pay $350 for a designer t-shirt nor be stuck with a run-of-the-mill crewneck offered by mass market retailers.
Dear readers,
We would like to present the Fall/Winter 2013 collection by the German artisanal jeweler Werkstatt:Munchen. This season, in addition to their usual offerings, W:M wanted to experiment with leather and added a few interior design pieces with new treatments.
Earlier this month we presented Barny Nakhle’s men’s collection of footwear. Here is the women’s counterpart for next season.
Nakhle’s footwear is available at LN-CC in London, H.Lorenzo in Los Angeles, and other shops around the world.
Dear readers,
We are happy to present the current women’s collection from Forme d’Expression.
We are happy to present the Spring-Summer 2013 collection by Forme d’Expression. We will post the women’s looks tomorrow. Click on any image to enlarge.
I first met Barny Nakhle in Paris a year ago. I was preoccupied with finding a perfect pair of derbys at the time and therefore developed an unbecoming habit of staring at other men’s shoes. His were the first I liked in a long time. Hoping to score the same pair I asked where he got his. No cigar – the derbys were a prototype of a footwear collection he was working on after cutting his teeth at Guidi.