Alice Temperely has given birth to a son Fox London Temperley von Bennigsen Mackiewicz just five days after her Spring 2009 show. Fox, the first child for Temperley and her husband Lars von Bennigsen, was born in London at 9am on Saturday, September 20.
Louis Vuitton seems to have quite the sense of humour with their "core values" campaign. First it was former Mikhail Gorbachev Russian president now its men who pretend to spy on the Russians. Sean Connery may have just sat for Annie Leibovitz. We suppose Ian Fleming's version of James Bond would be very into nice luggage as an idea. In other strange combinations news Sonic Youth's bassist Kim Gordon is making a line for hip moms. May be kindly suggest they check out Kirna Zabete newly launched ecommerce site? They are the only store to sell Lanvin online!
Macy's is getting behind Rwanda's basket weavers with a partnership to help sell their products with a program called "Path to Peace Baskets". Paul Kagame, the first democratically elected president of Rwanada, in town for UN General Assembly Meetings attended a reception to celebrate the event on Monday.
The preppy aesthetic may be the most reinterpreted element in menswear as it is forever being repurposesd for designers that want a little polish. John Crocco is a master at just this effort, but instead of giving us tired ironic preppy to appeal to the trendy young folks (and we don't care about the young folks) he gives us "preppy without the privilege." This is menswear for everyman without any of the attitude.
Is it fashion forward scary? Not in the slightest. And we applaud him for this effort as we are fairly sure we know all the men that go in for the natty obesssions and the market isn't that large. We say better to serve the regular men that don't want their look to be stuck in some circa 2001 era of non fashion. Not that there isn't some whackness going on with pink pants, a hooded vest and lots of cutesy shorts but you gotta give the menswear editors something to be excited about even if the buyers probably don't care.
Thus we say, the cuts are fresh without being intimidating, the colors are appealing without being hard to wear. Sky blues and lilac help round out comfortable beiges. All in all its a collection that is serving its consumers. Which to us is the best thing fashion can do. And if you just need a nice sport coat we say you couldn't do much better than this!
Nothing helps perk up an exhausted editor operating on four hours of sleep like beautiful male models, like say the kind on parade backstage at Perry Ellis. After admiring the walkthrough we had the privilege of speaking with Creative Director John Crocco about his menswear vision for Spring 2009. He told us about his preppy without privilege aesthetic. To which we say good soundbite! Nothing makes us happier than a media trained designer who knows just how to express himself with a collection. So until the show at 11am enjoy these photos of the backstag
Last night was opening night for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and star Renée Fleming wore Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, and John Galliano. The She even has a fragrance, handed out to concert goers, called La Voce by Renée Fleming which benefits the Met. Populism and opera may be a concept we can get behind.
Coach Inc.’s president and executive creative director Reed Krakoff outearned his boss Lew Frankfort by a two to one margin. Let's here it for well paid creatives. Perry Ellis and C&C California are adding swimwear. Times are tough for weavers, textile manufacturers at Milano Unicaare concerned about the weak dollar.Gap has purchased Athlete for $150 million
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