Stylee Fridays: Hood By Air Spring 2010 Video
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Right before the seasonal round of runway shows cranks up, fashion people all over the world start to get ants in their pants. Hood By Air will be showing spring 2010 on the 14th of September, right at the tail end of NY Fashion Week, which makes us kind of anxious and excited. Earlier this week photographer and filmmaker Reid van Renesse emailed us a little something to relieve the tension—or at least keep the nerves at bay—a collaborative video with HBA’s Shayne Oliver featuring clothes from the new collection.
If the video is a sneak preview of what’s in store for the show, then we’re definitely not mad at the new Hood By Air sneakers and crazy backpacks, pretty amazing accessory additions to their growing line of custom jewelry. The big theme here seems to be worship, which works really well in the signature HBA monochrome palette. The bondage whites also tie into the idea of surveillance and entrapment—that big-brother-is-watching you intro could be the voice in a cyber space boot camp or futuristic loony bin. And though this obviously doesn’t mean that HBA will be presenting their collection in a high-security church, we’ll be interested to see where the mood will take them this season.
Style: And On The Seventh Day There Was Flannel — Day 4
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For Fall/Winter ‘09 New York fashion week, FADER style assistant Erin Hansen will chronicle everything in a uniform of flannel. Will anyone really give a damn if she wears flannel for a week straight? Who knows? Stay tuned for the fascinating fashionista reactions.
Style: HOOD BY AIR / Classics Launch Party
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Last Tuesday, clothing label Hood by Air launched their “Classics” collection with a party at the Oak Showroom, jams pumped up by Kid Cudi and Brooklyn favorite DJ Kingdom. The “Classics” collection features designers Shayne Oliver and Raul Lopez’s popular and much beloved styles at a less costly price. Lopez told us they wanted to give something back that was a little more financially “accessible.” A concept that made our eyes grow wide with hungry shopper’s dementia, as we’ve had our eye on their unisex styles for more then a year now. The collection includes their signature leather accessorizing, but also shiny-coated tees, an awesome screen-printed sweatshirt (after the jump) and a reversible logo’d pair of shorts for rear-end admiration. To say the least, the occasion was not lacking in downtown style and we spotted a grip of young stylish men and women in shades of black and grey (including a threesome of coordinated fashionistos).
Hood By Air At A.S.S.
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Last night we strolled over to Terrence Koh’s Asia Song Society gallery in Chinatown, a small but appropriate space on Canal Street where we caught Matthew Stone taking a nap a year ago. Brooklyn banjee boys and clothing designers, Shayne Oliver and Raul Lopez, presented their Gigolow and Bird videos, a thematic series that corresponds to their Hood by Air Spring 2009 line rightly entitled “bondage.” Hood by Air’s suggestive taste and playful antics made for one of the more intriguing runway shows at Fashion Week this year, drawing out a few roped and barred models. For those interested in purchasing or just experiencing the pieces for themselves, a Hood by Air pop-up shop will be hosted at the gallery through the weekend.
Stylee Fridays: Backstage At Hood By Air
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We expected dark and brooding high-fashion dramatics at the spring ‘09 Hood By Air show, and that’s exactly what we got. Models in spiffy, hard bottoms and wall-street worthy shirts fastened right to the top were bondaged out, hands tied behind their back with lethal weapons—power drills and crowbars—dangling from their outfits like casual man trinkets. The ghost of Patrick Bateman might as well have been sitting at the end of the runway (the hair nets were a, uhm, dead giveaway), but of course the looks were all definitely signature HBA, with PVC capes and slate grey hood-ready wind breakers a clear nod to the label’s mission statement.
Video: Mickey Factz f. Cool Kids, “Rockin ‘N Rollin”
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Ian just put this up with some opaque references to Mickey being unhappy about it, but as everyone from Barack Obama to your mom knows by now, once it’s on YouTube, you might as well just come clean. We can’t find anything wrong with the video itself, especially since dudes are wearing Hood By Air creations and Hood By Air-ist Raoul even makes a cameo, but we understand how these things can get. Like that Hood By Air video linked above? We fought for days about who was going to get to hold the microphone. Still think about it. Anyway, when you’re done watching that video make sure to download the compiled tracks from Mickey’s Leak series below.
Download: Mickey Factz, The Leak Vol. 1: The Understanding
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posted on Apr 28, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Cool Kids, freeload, hip hop, Hood by Air, Mickey Factz
FADER TV: Hood By Air Fashion Show
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This week marks a very important moment in Stylee Friday and FADER history, folks. Yes, with the help of our very own debonair style correspondent Mobolaji Dawodu we’ve made the first in the series of stylee TV segments!! The FADER fashion team took to the streets last week for Hood By Air’s S/S ‘08 fashion show, a global-warming inspired collection of menswear that we’ve captured on film, with a marvelous post-show breakdown hosted by Mobolaji.
