Be it cold or warm outside, I’m always a fan of knits + M. Patmos’ Resort collection is full of many favorites. However, the problem that most knitwear faces, especially in a color palette as basic as creams, blacks + a dash of metallics, is looking too crafty as if grandma took to the loom […]
Had you been at Mara Hoffman’s RTW Fall 2016 collection presentation, not your typical runway show, you could have easily picked out a lot of her favorite icons from the Seventies disco era. Cher, Grace Jones + Jerry Hall could all be spotted, if not channeled by Hoffman’s dead-on contemporary iteration, of looks from a time […]
If I didn’t know any better, Philipp Plein‘s Fall Menswear collection could be one inspired by superheroes. Not literally, of course, with minor exceptions. There were plenty of leather jackets, some three-quarter length, that seemed to assume other roles. Some replaced a suit jacket. Made in the same wool as the pants, with leather accents, you […]
Alexander Wang’s Balenciaga collection for Fall is on point. Wang’s take on Balenciaga’s accessories was as Iris Apfel would say,’ More is more + less is a bore’ with a model carrying not one but three bags (above center), while keeping everything else very simple. I loved his color blocked gloves, especially those with touches […]
To say it’s crazy, is a slight understatement + yet, I can see how someone can say it makes sense. When Brazilian designer Raquel Guimaraes (below) lacked sufficient knitters to finish her knitwear collection for her Doiselles brand, she thought about utilizing prisoners from Arisvaldo de Campos Pires, Brazil’s maximum security prison. In return, the prisoners would get […]
By French Knitwear Label Monsieur Lacenaire Made to look like a houndstooth pattern of sorts, French knitwear label Monsieur Lacenaire knows how to engage and amuse with this knitwear series inspired by the iconic Space Invaders game. However, they remain true to themselves by adding their own spin to the game by turning the ‘invaders’ into […]