The Capsule Tradeshow: Pick of the Best
- story Chioma Nnadi
The Capsule tradeshow in New York expanded to five floors of fashion this season, with the Oak showroom perched up in the rafters. It took us an entire afternoon to work through all the awesome menswear and here is a smattering of what we’re penciling in for next spring.
1. Yuketen boat shoes (above)
Yuketen are known for their sturdy US-produced boots which are virtually unkillable. The shoes they are doing for next spring are a little softer and more moccasinesque than regualr boat shoes, but just as artisanal as the footwear they make for the snow.
FADER TV: On The Street With Mobolaji — The Capsule Edition
- story THE FADER
Mobolaji Dawodu wears transition lenses and Walmart jeans and is still the coolest person we know. He also understands that personal style is a conundrum. To unpuzzle that puzzle, we’ll be sending Mobolaji out into the world untethered by anything but his own sense of sartorial equilibrium. For this edition of FADER TV’s On The Street, he queried folks at the recent Capsule menswear show in New York City.
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posted on Jul 30, 2008 in STYLE CHANNEL, STYLE ON THE STREET SHOW tags Capsule, On The Street With Mobolaji
Stylee Fridays: Mjolk at Capsule
- story THE FADER
It’s always tough to pick favorites at Capsule, just because this particular menswear tradeshow is already a big favorite of ours in itself. As we browsed the clothing racks and neatly stacked piles of button-downs and brogues, it didn’t take long to figure out that the Scandinavians had clinched it again. From the geometric covered booties we saw at Stockholm-based footwear line Gram to the black rose printed shirts at Gothenburg-based Velour, all roads seemed to be leading north. Mjolk is actually a menswear line out of London, but Lars, the founder and designer is from Denmark (Mjolk is Danish for “milk”). He’s lived in the UK for 14 years so his accent has a London wideboy twang to it with a tiny Nordic lilt. He moved to New York a couple of months ago and we were lucky enough to bump into him at the Mjolk booth (the sales people were having a cigarette break). Lars is really the ultimate posterboy for the line. He wears the cropped sweat-meet-dress pants in a way that makes you want to jump into your own pair and give this new take on casual dress-up a go yourself. It’s a good combination of that Scandinavian style we’ve been banging on about, chopped with a good helping of London eccentricity. The idea for Spring ‘09 (yes, ‘09 mind-blowing we know!) was to take the formal out of men’s formal wear, so lots of the blazers were amazingly casual with matching pants made from sweatshirt material. It was all we could do not to swipe a pair of Spring ‘09 shorts while Lars wasn’t looking, but honestly the collection is one worth sitting tight for—one we will still be psyched about when it finally hits stores next spring.
