Stylee Fridays: Haversack Shows Us Why Old Dudes Do it Better
- story Chioma Nnadi
There is little information on the Haversack website, aside from a mission statement laid out in four simple bullet points, which can basically be summed up in one sentence: solid vintage-inspired menswear that has an eye to the future and its soul in the past. They’ve broken down their current collection into three bite-sized chunks, and the jazzy beachside delivery is clearly the pick of the bunch. Mjolk’s spring 2010 offering edged us in similarly awesome direction when we previewed the line at Capsule last year, and designer Lars Stoten cited the Lost Generation of artists (Hemingway, Pound, Picasso) as a major inspiration, presenting a closet of clothes you might pack for a 1930s vacation on the French Riviera. Haversack takes that idea one step further, using a gentleman that could easily pass for one of the crew to model all three collections.
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posted on Jan 29, 2010 in STYLEE FRIDAYS
On The Street at Capsule 2009
- story THE FADER
The Capsule tradeshow in New York is a rare opportunity for the dudes of independent fashion to get their shine on. Contributing style editor Mobolaji Dawodu caught up with some of the most dapper gents at the show last week, including Mjolk designer Lars Stoten.
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posted on Jul 30, 2009 in FADER TV, FADER TV STYLE CHANNEL SPOTLIGHT, STYLE CHANNEL, STYLE ON THE STREET SHOW
Stylee Fridays: Mjolk Spring 2010
- story Chioma Nnadi
If you were to take the wardrobe wishlists of every FADER staffer and fuse them together at random, the collective fantasy closet would look something like this:
1. A blinged-out Topshop bodycon dress
2. A pair of Cutler and Gross perspex specs
3. A Military camo button down (one that actually went through a war, the more fucked up the better)
4. One bright red union suit (just to chill around the house)
When it comes to constructing an entirely new look though, it helps to start with a person, or group of stylish peoples for inspiration, which is why Mjolk’s new spring 2010 collection—previewed at Capsule—really got us thinking. Mjolk designer Lars Stoten had the Lost Generation of artists in mind when he was designing the new collection, specifically Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. That ’20s set of artsy ex-pats spent most of their time in Paris, but Stoten re-imagines the crew on vacation in the south of France, and the outfits they might have worn while sipping Chardonnay with Picasso or frolicking on the beach with Kiki de Montparnasse. The pants are all loose, lovely and painterly, with Limoncello-colored jeans and a casually polished powderpink suit that seems just as fit for Riviera living back then as it would be now.
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posted on Jul 24, 2009 in Uncategorized
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.
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posted on Jul 25, 2008 in STYLEE FRIDAYS
