Jun 29, 2009

Style: Charles Guislain is the Future of Men’s Fashion

Fashion blogger Diane Pernet has a knack for spotting talent super early, so we’re hedging our bets on her newest Margiela-wrapped protegé, Charles Guislain, being the future of avant-garde men’s fashion. The adorable little French fashionisto has been swanning his way through men’s fashion week in Paris, hustling shows on the strength of some baby-faced je-ne-sais-quoi charm, a bleach-blonde do and a mean pair of Rick Owens wedged booties. If he doesn’t end up being the next Hedi Slimane he will probably end up dating him.

Jun 24, 2009

Style: Pleet TV

From what we can tell from the fashion internets, regular 2D lookbooks are officially for dweebs. First came performance artist Kalup Linzy’s dragtastic performance of “Sampled and Left Ova,” an Oscar-worthy interpretation of Proenza Schouler’s resort collection and now Samantha Pleet launches Pleet TV with We Make It Good TV (who recently put a video out from the FADER Fort in Texas) for her holiday 2009 line. The show is what you would expect from the Pleet universe: champagne, a mean laugh track and lots of kooky romper-clad ladies climbing out of treasure chests doing impromptu Cher impressions. Matter of fact, if Wayne’s World had a 2009 remake, we’re pretty sure Tia Carrere could rock a Sam Pleet romper with just the right amount of divatude.

Apr 6, 2009

Style TV: Interview with Carl Malmgren of Cheap Monday

We persuaded Cheap Monday designer Carl Malmgren to take a little break from putting together the mammoth denim installation that he and the rest of the Swedish design team were busy working on. Malmgren gave us the back story behind their customization world tour and a breakdown of the awesomely hellish process that each pair of world tour jeans goes through before it can be labeled perfectly distressed. The Cheap Monday pop-up store-within-a-store is still going on at Inven.tory in SoHo, with a ton of great Cheap Monday denim and non-denim on sale. We think we might have even spotted a few limited edition world tour pieces up for grabs.

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Feb 20, 2009

Style TV: Backstage at Gerlan Jeans Fall 09

Designer Gerlan Marcel had her first runway show ever this week, and it totally blew our socks off. As a textile specialist, Gerlan is known for the eye-popping prints she’s designed for the likes of Jeremy Scott (remember the french fries print?). In the wash of NY fashion week grey, the Gerlan Jeans show chez Pat Field was just the colorful, playful antidote that we’d been looking for — all acid house good vibery, Minnie Mouse bows and super graphic gorgeous prints. Oh the prints! The story behind the “Peace & Love Inc” collection has a few outer space references too: If aliens landed on earth what might they be like? According to Gerlan, they would be happy, sunny and impeccably dressed, wearing four New Era caps at once and heeled Timbs to the moon. Kingdom did the soundtrack for the show, jewelry homie Heather Kosch (see her work in the new style issue) did all the wooden alien-face earrings and heart-shaped specs, and one of our all time favorites JJ Farrer was on styling. Not to mention the hair that Chuck Amos literally sculpted into being. If all fashion shows were like this, then we’d probably need to go to one every friday night for the rest of our lives.

Nov 25, 2008

FADER TV: Shop Talk at Billy Reid

Alabama-based designer Billy Reid brought up all the gorgeous features of his New York store right from the South, reclaiming staircases, medicine cabinets, church peeves and lining the wall with his own family portraits. We paid a trip to the cozy new flagship NY store on Bond Street last week for a lesson in fine Southern tailoring (snake guards and spiffy sport coats!). We were also treated to a special run through the new heirloom collection: beautiful suiting that is individually tailored to fit the wearer quite perfectly. Billy Reid also happens to serve the best Van Winkle bourbon apple cider we have probably ever tasted.

Nov 4, 2008

FADER TV: LA Is A Nice Place To Live #2

On each episode of FADER TV’s LA Is A Nice Place To Live, the West Coast staff takes in some of the city’s culture and fun good times. This edition has us leaving the office and crossing the street to Nike Sportswear’s Los Angeles retail and event space, The Montalbán, to check out the West Coast premiere of Justice’s tour documentary A Cross the Universe and launch of Busy P and So Me’s rainbow-soled Air Force 1s. While there, we chatted a bit with the Ed Banger crew and co-director Romain Gavras about the film and Los Angeles while avoiding the Halloween traffic.

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Oct 8, 2008

Video: David David’s Spring ‘09 Line

It’s downright dirty economic times like these that inspire us to turn to more playful collections for some TLC (a splash of color here, a striated pattern there). London-based label David David—who we’ve been stalking at a varsity level since FADER 47—has released a collection video for Spring ‘09. It’s a mélange of brightly patterned tops and leggings coupled with heart shaped arm choreography to Santogold’s “I’m a Lady,” and it’s just the right dose of brightness to motivate us out of a monochrome fall funk.

Sep 9, 2008

Video: To Almost Die For Suits by Adam Kimmel

It’s Fashion Week here in New York and people are already fully tattered by its demands on time and attention. We saw a girl on the corner this morning eating pages of the Adam Kimmel, whose art star inspired menswear we would like mailed to us in sizes we can specify over email, has sidestepped the hoopla and gotten us excited to wear powder blue suits for the first time since Easter 1988. Kimmel, with the filmmaking assistance of Ari Marcopoulos and pals, dressed up skateboarding nutjobs Noah Sakamoto and Patrick Rizzo in spring casual and sent them, at fucking terrifying speed, down a hill in Claremont, California. Our challenge to you: watch this and try not to move your head in attempt to steer away from cars and certain death.

May 23, 2008

Video: Shopping With Colette

Listen, we love our jobs, but sometimes it takes a Parisian to make us feel like maybe we spend a little too much time working and not enough time Jazzercizing with Zorro. At the Colette shop, Kate Moss performs musical numbers, Zorro wears Justice leather, Busy P is a violet and Menthos turn staffers into murderous zombies. All in the name of capitalism.

May 2, 2008

Video: Barkley L Hendricks: Birth Of The Cool

“What I might call her élan, her soul,” says Rick Powell, Duke University professor about one of Barkley Hendricks ’70s portraits of black Americans. It’s a funny mashing of experts talking art and some really old rad personal style that we just cannot replicate in current times. We wrote about Hendricks’ first retrospective happening now at Duke’s Nasher Museum but have yet been unable to make it to North Carolina to see the exhibit (though we—and you—have until July). This video tour of the exhibit is second best, but we’ll take it. Because even if we went right now Hendricks wouldn’t be there rocking a sweet neckscarf and he is on YouTube. Win some/lose some.

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