Kitsune Maison x Colette x Me Magazine
- story Peter Macia
Kitsune Maison, the Parisian purveyors of fine fashion and music, are all over the world this week. The latest issue of New York-based Me Magazine is curated by Kitsune founders Gildas Loaëc and Masaya Kuroki and gives great insight into their inspirations and cultural conspirators, including a few musicians and designers you might recognize. In London and Paris, the duo debuts its Boutique Kitsune Maison at the Shop at Bluebird and Colette, respectively, the latter of which opens today. The boutiques are stocked with Kitsune’s new “Le Lauréat/The Graduate” A/W 09 line for ladies and gents, which if you like looking like a million dollar Rhodes scholar should be right up your gilded driveway. Last but not least, everyone everywhere can pick up their label’s latest compilation now and watch the video of little kids dancing to recent single, “Maximus” by Beni. And please consider this our official invitation to Gildas and Matsui to open the next Boutique inside The FADER fashion closet.
Like Lipstick Traces Launches Stateside
- story Chioma Nnadi
Break down the etymology of streetwear label Hixsept and what you’re left with are the names of two French graffiti writers—Hëx and Hept aka Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Egry. Their latest project, Like Lipstick Traces, is an ode to those early ragtag days and chronicles the lives of 13 graffiti writers across the planet. Each artist was given 100 polaroid exposures to play with, and the results are a hard and fast scrapbook of hair-raising escapades on the job, like swinging from skyscrapers in Sao Paulo, or leaving footprints at the scene of the crime in Oslo. The book launched at Colette earlier this summer and gets the official New York welcome tomorrow at Reed Space.
Video: Shopping With Colette
- story THE FADER
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.
