A Visit to the Foundation: New Goodies from Play Cloths, Ksubi and Super

The folks at The Foundation invited us up to their showroom, to take a look at their new collections. They’ve added some new names to the list of fashion brands, including Native a new footwear line from Canada. Check out a few of our favorite new season picks after the jump.

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Gosha Rubchinsky’s Teen Dream

Russian designer Gosha Rubchinsky made this beautiful video to accompany his A/W 2011 collection, a shaky VHS of a film that documents a particularly dimlit, hazy day for a young boy. It’s the perfect companion to Gosha’s work because his clothes are always a total teen dream, filled with the punk and queer iconography of his high school days. He opens up that private world here, a voyeuristic window into the boy’s bedroom, while he narrates in Russian. There’s not much focus on clothes, but we get Gosha’s point entirely. More images after the jump. (via DazedDigital)

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PRO-Keds Brings Back The 69er

The ironic thing about canvas skippies is that in order for them to look relevant and fresh, they’ve got to look really 20th-century old, like something your mom or dad would wear. PRO-Keds has this covered, re-introducing a style they first made popular—extremely popular—in 1969, as the PRO-Ked Super. Re-dubbed The 69er, it’s being released in both high and low top versions just in time for summer games of basketball.

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Celebrate Spring at the Ivana Helsinki Pop-Up Shop

If the recent bout of warm weather in New York has you itching to get out of the house as much as us, why not pop your head in at 238 Mulberry Street, the site of Paola Suhonen’s month-long pop-up shop. As the designer behind Finnish clothing line IVANAhelsinki and editor-in-chief of the modern erotic magazine Love Contemporary, Suhonen has taken this opportunity to celebrate the full breadth of her talent. The store’s offerings include a wide range of items from IVANAhelsinki’s spring collection, as well as a dazzling array of futuristic-looking “pleasure toys.” Appropriately enough, however, it’s at night that the real fun begins. Every evening after 7PM, the rolling racks are stowed away and the space is transformed into a venue for music, movies, storytelling, arts-and-crafts and photography, hosted by bright young things including Au Revoir Simone’s Erica Forster and singer Alexa Wilding. Although the store closes its doors on March 17th (with an all-day sale), there’s still time to catch a DJ set by jewelry designer Pamela Love while you get your portrait snapped by Skye Parrot. Check out Love Contemporary’s blog for a full listing of events.

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New Swimwear from Bantu

Yodit Ecklund grew up building sandcastles on beaches across Africa and has taken her water-baby status into adulthood with Bantu, her line of swimsuits. The Cali-based designer recently relaunched her website, and the new collection is shot Sahara-style, amongst sand dunes and camels. Ecklund has a soft spot for ’70s Ghanian prints—there’s a great new one-piece with plunging neckline that’s covered in a green, blue and pink print—and sources all her patterns there before producing the label in Kenya.

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Our Legacy Spring 2010

Entitled “Hidden Harvest,” Our Legacy’s spring 2010 collection is purportedly centered on the “epic life of a well-made garment.” A lofty claim perhaps, but one they’ve managed to make seem more than plausible. Filled with exactly the type of easy charm we’ve come to expect from smart Scandinavian menswear, the clean, unfussy pieces are injected with just the right amount of unexpected detailing—floral print vamps up a pair of otherwise tough-looking suede boots, corduroy pants cuffed just enough to let a flash of bare ankle peep out over sturdy leather loafers. OL adds a touch of whimsy to one’s outfit without ever detouring into smarminess. Photographed on their website as a series of lovingly-arranged still lifes, Our Legacy’s eye for clever minutiae clearly extends beyond their sharp tailoring and discerning use of pattern. Suffice to say that “Hidden Harvest” will no doubt see you through a few sagas of your own long before out-wearing its welcome.

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Project No. 8 Online Shop Now Open

Project No. 8, New York’s finest shop of fashion curiosities, tricked out their website last week, adding a new online shopping section with assorted springtime goodies. As always, there are a ton of great Margiela pieces, including a denim bucket hat and some gorgeous snakeskin tango shoes. Items most likely to fill our shopping cart this week come courtesy of Austrian label Fabric Interseason, and include a Madagascar root necklace, an origami bag and this bra pendant.

Oneupmanship Gets The Shoe Of His Dreams

We took note many months ago when Nicolas at Oneupmanship Journal introduced us to his ideal shoe, the Clarks Oberon. It’s a perfect style, all soft leather and elementary school innocence, the kind of sensible shoe that your mom would force you to wear but that would still make you the flyest kid on the playground. Poor Nicolas, though, had to wait. Clarks hadn’t reissued the shoe yet, Nicolas didn’t have a solid release date, and so the British blogger was left pining for his Oberons, filling up the Oneupmanship Journal with pictures of shoes that he could buy, ones with close resemblances to the Oberon, like the Jacoform. We’re happy to report that just a few days ago, Nicolas received his re-issued Oberson and showed them off like a proud peacock. Now we just need a stateside release date.

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Frederick Wiseman’s Model is the Original September Issue

Back in the ’80s, famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman made a movie about the modeling industry, and while he did not pass the pearly gates of Vogue to make Model, his exposé on fashion is said to be just as awesome and revealing. The film’s mise-en-scène moves around the frothy comings and goings of an Oscar de la Renta fashion show and a panty hose commercial, with Wiseman trailing models from the now defunct Zoli agency. Warhol makes a cameo, and there are plenty of recognizable ’80s glamazons around too (Jerry Hall), as well as tons of great Alexis Colby-worthy fashion moments. The documentary showed at MoMa last night, and will be screening at the museum again on March 22, at 4pm.

(Via Refinery)

Made in Africa: Sawa Shoes

Feted as the first 100% authentic African-made sneaker, Sawa shoes had their official worldwide launch today. The label’s assembly line spreads a little love at all four corners of the continent: the laces are made in Tunisia, the rubber soles in Egypt, the leather in Nigeria, the canvas in Cameroon, the packaging in South Africa and the final product is cooked up by craftsmen in Cameroon. For now the kicks will be available at Soula in Brooklyn and Dover Street Market in London (probably one of the best stores ever)—Comme des Garçons has put in an order too. An online shop featuring the footwear and other Sawa-related treats is also in the works, and their African school notebooks will probably replace our obsession with French scribble pads as soon as it goes live. (via Valet)

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