A 1970s cabinet from the German Democratic Republic with a frameless mirror on top, a low and narrow single bed, an Uzbek patterned carpet: the furnishings that fill the newly-assembled living-room in the basement of Dover Street Market are unmistakably Soviet. As someone born and raised in the USSR I immediately recognize the utilitarian shapes, [...]

  Dear readers, We would like to present the Fall/Winter 2013 collection by the German artisanal jeweler Werkstatt:Munchen. This season, in addition to their usual offerings, W:M wanted to experiment with leather and added a few interior design pieces with new treatments. http://www.werkstatt-muenchen.com/  

  Earlier this month we presented Barny Nakhle’s men’s collection of footwear. Here is the women’s counterpart for next season. Nakhle’s footwear is available at LN-CC in London, H.Lorenzo in Los Angeles, and other shops around the world. For more, please visit http://barnynakhle.tumblr.com/  

Rigards, the eyewear brand, began as a collaboration between two friends in Los Angeles. Jean Marc Virard and Ti Kwa, both self-professed “four-eyes for life” and avid collectors of glasses were not quite satisfied by what was available on the market. In particular they were drawn by the traditional way of making frames from horn, [...]

  Dear readers, I met Filep Motwary almost a year ago. Filep is a costume designer, photographer, and fashion features editor for Dapper Dan magazine. He founded  Un nouVeau iDEAL in 2006. We have corresponded regularly since, sharing our views on fashion. We finally realized that we should share our insights with the larger audience [...]

HAIKU (click on any image to enlarge) photographer: CHRISTOS KARANTZOLAS stylist: BRIANNA BRUNSON make up: YUUI YUUI hair: JUNYA NAKASHIMA models: LI WEI  @ FUSION MODELS         EVE LIU @ MAJOR MODELS NY All traditional kimonos are from a private collection.

Dear readers, We are happy to present the current women’s collection from Forme d’Expression. http://factoryofaith.com/

We are happy to present the Spring-Summer 2013 collection by Forme d’Expression. We will post the women’s looks tomorrow. Click on any image to enlarge. http://factoryofaith.com/  

The new exhibit on punk and its influence on fashion by the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York may, naturally, raise questions, such as “What the fuck”? What is punk, with its emphasis on anti-establishment and disobedience, doing in the halls of this grand dame of culture? Would Sid Vicious [...]

  I first met Barny Nakhle in Paris a year ago. I was preoccupied with finding a perfect pair of derbys at the time and therefore developed an unbecoming habit of staring at other men’s shoes. His were the first I liked in a long time. Hoping to score the same pair I asked where [...]

Within Comme des Garcons’s impressive collection of fragrances, now totaling over 50, sits a small series of scents reserved for the luxury market. The aptly named LUXE collection, released in 2007, consists of two scents, Patchouli, a dark and brooding concoction of herbs, resins, and woods, and Champaca, a rich floral accented with peppered spices. [...]

The new Sruli Recht store is located in the cent re of Reykjavík. The new store presents Sruli Recht’s complete collections, show pieces, and arsenal of non-products over two floors. The fittings and tables are made using laser cut layer slices of three dimensional models, then hand assembled and stained white. The lighting fixtures designed [...]

Photography: Jeff P. Elstone II Model: Michelle @ Muse Scarves/Wraps: Taiana Design Headpieces: Selina Elkuch Make-up: Cheyenne Timperio Hair: Takeo Suzuki (click on any image to enlarge and flip through the story)

Zam Barrett fall-winter 2013. Continue reading for a preview shot for StyleZeitgeist at the Paris showroom.

Here at StyleZeitgeist we are fascinated with all things Belgian. There is just something in the air in that country – a mix of unparalleled cultural literacy and awareness coupled with a lack of snobbery so often found in design capitals of the world – that makes Belgian design both prescient and fresh. Below, our [...]

It is with incredible sense of sadness that I write about the departure of Yohan Serfaty, who succumbed to cancer earlier today. Yohan was a talented menswear designer, but, more importantly, a sweet and gentle human being. He worked quietly and showed his menswear in Paris without fanfare. He designed from the heart and the [...]

When in 2006 the German art book publisher Steidl first released the book by one of the most famously provocative photographers, Guy Bourdin – A Message for You, it quickly sold out. The gorgeous two-volume series documented a period of Bourdin’s work from 1977 to 1980 with the dancer-turned-model Nicolle Meyer as his muse. Seven [...]

Exclusive photos of the fall-winter collection from A1923 / Adiciannoveventitre, by Simone Cecchetto.

The work of the Swiss photographer Rene Burri is well known, especially the iconic photos from his Magnum Agency days. Just search Google Images for Che Guevara and his famous shot of Guevara smoking a cigar is one of the first that pops up. Though most of Burri’s famous images are black and white, he [...]

It’s no secret that fashion was late at adopting the Internet. The photographer Nick Knight is one of the few figures who early-on realized its potential as a platform for doing awe-inspiring things with fashion, especially the role of video. In 2001, he created what would become his virtual project lab, SHOWstudio. It is only [...]

In 2009, in response to recession, Comme des Garcons created BLACK Comme des Garcons, a line of reasonably priced classic CdG garments replete with their own boutiques around the world. The practical nature of the project was reflected in the small, minimalist spaces themselves. As part of the ongoing effort to outfit the various sides [...]

“I’d say most of my inspiration was drawn from old-school American values mixed with a little punk-rock enthusiasm.” – Mike Brodie in Q&A with The New Yorker I’d say that’s about accurate if by old-school American values one includes the freedom of the open road, the color palette and compositional story-telling sensibility of a Winslow [...]

  We are happy to share the lookbook of Sruli Recht’s Fall/Winter 2013 season. The collection is called Concentrated, a meditation on the many holocausts committed by humanity, past and present. www.srulirecht.com  

So finely attuned is Peter Hujar’s (1934-1987) photographic voice that the eighteen black and white photographs comprising the mini-retrospective at Pace/MacGill are more than sufficient to present his world and his take on it. A prominent artist in 70s and 80s New York, the at-ease portraits of William Burroughs, Vince Aletti, Paul Thek, John Waters [...]

London’s favourite progressive retail store is located as far as possible from the obvious touristic shopping routes – in the heart of Hackney – and is only open to customers who request an appointment by phone or email ‘to control the amount of people in the store’ as its co-founder Dan Mitchell explains it. Though [...]

Fashion can be many things, likeable or not. Among these, fashion as theater is one aspect that gives it a certain kind of excitement. And by theater I don’t mean a mere parade of lavish outfits, but a convergence of the immaterial, in the form of designer’s ideas, with the material, in the form of [...]

Entering Boudicca space at Vyner street, 45, I suddenly remembered why this address sounds familiar – designers used to host Halloween events here, for which they invited their fans to participate and show their baking skills in creating craziest cakes for the occasion. Results were unpredictable and sometimes impressive – cakes in shapes of human-size [...]

Dear readers, If you happen to be in New York this Sunday, you can stop by Atelier New York (304 Hudson St.) where the Russian-born designer Alexandre Plokhov will be holding a trunk show. You will have an opportunity to meet the designer and order items from his Fall/Winter 2013 collection, which we thought strong, [...]

Pattern, the new volume aiming to survey contemporary fashion from Phaidon ($79.95) is quite a tome to behold, with over 400 gorgeously laid out pages, printed on high-quality paper and with a beautiful cover, embossed and gold-foiled. It also comes in a paper Tyvek tote (no, you cannot rip Tyvek, ask me how I know). [...]

That graphic design can unite fashion, art, and music is an unusual proposition, certainly one I haven’t thought about, but going through the new book M to M of M/M (Paris) (Rizolli, $85) was an eye-opening experience. It makes sense on a basic creative level. All three disciplines demand visual representation and M/M, the design [...]

Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama is so prolific that his official website can hardly keep up: the ninety-one-book list is already out of date and omits a lot of past titles too. If we wanted to, we could bury you with book reviews for this septuagenarian artist. In this blur one particular title, Labyrinth, co-published by [...]

It was the last night of their North American tour and Enslaved, the Norwegian black metal band, did not seem tired in the least. Coming off a stretch of shows to promote their new album RIITIIR, Enslaved toured the states with fellow bands Pallbearer, Ancient VVisdom and Royal Thunder. The Bowery Ballroom was sold out [...]

Hey SZ Fam, As a fan of the “harder” side of music I decided to start by putting together a small collection of Doom-Metal together for your aural pleasure. These are some greats, both old and new, from bands like Neurosis, Jesu, Ahab, Isis and My Silent Wake. Each of these tracks will lull you [...]

Dear Internet, Here is my aural journey: Beginning with When Gravity Fails, two tracks, Moving through Cast By Shadows, Field Dressing, and up through Circumsolar, the birth of my son and the songs that put we sing to entertain or put him to sleep, and most recent collection Concentrated – these are the various and [...]

The nine grand Dan Flavin works and one big five-unit Donald Judd aluminum cube installation, now collectively up at the David Zwirner gallery on 20th Street will serve as a slap in the back of the head for anyone who thinks they’ve had enough of minimalist art. And, as much as I want “to get” [...]

Yesterday I stopped by the installation/trunk show of the New York label InAisce held in West SoHo at the menswear boutique Atelier. It is a first event of this kind for InAisce, where you can view the entire Fall/Winter 2013 men’s and women’s collections, pre-order the garments that you like, and chat with the entire [...]

“Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.” Charles Baudelaire In recent years museums have paid quite a bit of attention to the dark side of human emotion, from the brilliant 2006 Czech exhibit “In Morbid Colors,” to the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met in New York, where McQueen’s own [...]

  Yesterday I visited Alexandre Plokhov’s studio in New York’s Flatiron district to check out his Fall/Winter 2013 collection. Plokhov was in a pretty serene mood despite his mind-boggling schedule (he was hopping on the plane the same afternoon to go to Premiere Vision in Paris.). The collection reflected Plokhov’s continuous refinement of his style. [...]

Dear readers, Check out the video for the new Alexandre Plokhov collection. And watch this space for an exclusive update from his showroom next week.

Dear all, These songs were my daily bread in the 90s, when as a teenager I would speed my skateboard through the stony streets of my Traunstein suburb that were so ill-fitted for skating. It felt like total freedom to me and it still does today on the smooth, skateable streets of Barcelona. I really [...]

Lost & Found is one of our favourite labels to visit, not just for the heartful welcome given by designer Ria Dunn and her husband Alessandro Esteri, but also because they are consistent in presenting a strong and beautiful collection season after season. Fall-winter 2013-14 was no exception, this time introducing some more technical materials alongside the raw edged knits and leathers [...]

To stand in front of a painting by Luc Tuymans means accepting that while you can “get” what it’s about you can never really say you fully understand it. This later point stings in that his paintings calmly stand as a rebuke that so much of what we think we have independently earned in terms [...]

Australian label Song for the Mute presented its 7th collection during men’s fashion week in Paris. This season, the collection also features heavier weight pieces for the winter, and creates an interesting correlation between hard and soft -sharply cut and tailored garments as well as more relaxes and comfortable ones. The materials used, many created [...]

  On a snowy and gloomy sunday afternoon last week, the Stylezeitgeist crew invaded the showroom of Boris Bidjan Saberi, hidden inside the massive Institut Français de la Mode on the left bank of Seine. The runway show, which had taken place the day before, showcased the fall-winter 2013-14 collection in a way which could [...]

Photography by Eugene Rabkin

Two days ago, Daniel and I were sitting in a cafe in Paris and he said, “We should’ve tracked down Tobias Wistisen since we are here; he makes great jewelry.” That’s why I was pleasantly surprised to find Wistisen a few hours later at the Tranoi fair. The Danish designer cut his teeth assisting John [...]

Continue reading for the runway video as well as an exclusive preview of lookbook images for Sruli Recht’s fall-winter 2013-2014 collection, “Concentrated”.

If you happen to be in Paris during the men’s fashion week, make sure to stop by L’Eclaireur on Rue Herold where the artisanal jeweler Werkstatt Munchen set up the most comprehensive installation of their work to date. Along the classic products, WM are displaying their forays into mixing siliver with leather to make belts, [...]

Photography by Eugene Rabkin

  Photography by Eugene Rabkin

Photography by Eugene Rabkin

Photography by Eugene Rabkin

Inaisce fall-winter 2013. The collection – Seeking Aether. Continue reading for an exclusive view at the lookbook. 

A video preview of the upcoming fall-winter 2013 collection from Inaisce, which will be presented during men’s fashion week in Paris in January. Video by Jeff P. Elstone II.

Here is the video preview of Sruli Recht’s Autumn/Winter 2013 collection titled “Concentrated.” It will be presented in Paris during the men’s fashion week on January 19th, 2013 in Carrousel Du Louvre.

Lost & Found, the artisanal Italian label designed by Ria Dunn, has launched an online shop called Rooms. Here, you can buy L&F archival pieces in addition to their adorable children’s wear, which sprang up from Dunn’s desire to make clothes for her own two kids. Taking the creative approach, Dunn’s husband, the photographer Alessandro [...]

Christopher Wool the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris To think of Christopher Wool only as a painter is to deprive oneself enjoyment of his accomplishments as a bookmaker and photographer.  For three decades now Wool has brought to bear his trademark attention to detail, professionalism, intelligence and disquieting use of copy and [...]

A new menswear store bowed in Chicago two weeks ago – Gallery Aesthete. A brain child of Stephen Naparstek, the owner of Bonnie and Clyde’s, the new shop offers a carefully selected designer lineup in a stark space designed by Lukas Machnik. Next to the established names like Ann Demeulemeester, Comme des Garcons, and Rick [...]

Here is a mix by our editorial photographer Jeff P Elstone II, who has worked with us since volume one and has created unforgettable images based on Herman Hesse’s book Narcissus and Goldmund, Joseph Beuys’s infamous “I Like America and America Likes Me” performance, and the Norse goddess Freyja. “Autumn is a melancholic and magical [...]

  Dear readers, Volume 3 is now available for pre-order and will start shipping at the end of the month! We are proud to present two new special edition products available with volume 3. You can preorder these items, which include a copy of volume 3 in our Market section.

  Last Saturday we were honored to be a part of another important celebration. Atelier New York, the cutting edge menswear boutique, feted their ten year anniversary. It was an intimate gathering, with designers and representatives from various labels the shop carries flying in from Europe. To mark the occasion, designers from Yohji Yamamoto to [...]

  Thank you everyone for making yesterday an overwhelming success: to all those who came and packed the place full, to Jennifer Tzar and her musicians for putting on a kick-ass performance, to teams from Boris Bidjan Saberi, _Julius, Guidi,  M.A.+, Augusta and Werkstatt Munchen for coming half the way across the world to be [...]

As I was packing for Europe last Monday I got an email about the opening of Deborah Turbeville’s new show “Unseen Versailles.” It was to be on the one full day I was in Paris, and Turbeville would be attending. There is something especially joyful about meeting someone half way across the world from whom [...]

  Ever since its doors closed, followers of Carpe Diem have been anxious to see something new from its creator Maurizio Altieri. Their hunger has been fed slowly. In 2009 Altieri showed Avantindietro – a small collection of footwear and garments which followed the ethos of Carpe Diem and its sister labels in the sense [...]

This past week we were honored to be a part of festivities at Dover Street Market in London.  We found ourselves in good company; throughout the store there were installations by designers whose work we respect and value. Maurizio Altieri had created an installation that ran through the building – from the rooftop to the basement [...]

For spring-summer 2013, designer Mariavittoria Sargentini continues her ReCikli project with the same ethos that was implemented for the current fall season, presenting 15 new unisex patterns in special materials from Marvielab’s archives.

Continue reading for updated information regarding our New York launch event, which will be on October 19th at 8.30 pm.

  VOLUME 3 COVER: Jamie Bochert in Dries van Noten CONTENTS: 1.    Comme des Garcons – Perfume In this article on CdG PARFUM, with interviews of Rei Kawakubo, Adrian Joffe, and the creative director Christian Astuguevieille, we examine the history and impact of Comme des Garcons’ perfumery business. 2.    A.F.Vandevorst – Independent An interview with [...]

  StyleZeitgeist volume 3 – October 2012.  

“The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, and the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.” – Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way I first [...]

Here is my StyleZeitgeist mix. These are some of the songs that I hold dear for various reasons; some reflect my thoughts and emotions, some have influenced my style, some possess the sheer excruciating beauty that needs no comment. Naturally, quite a few of the songs are from the 90s and the 00′s – the [...]

It takes a show like the current exhibit of early Russian photography at the Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York to remind us of several things. One, that the visual age we live in is neither as sophisticated nor as original as we think. Another, that the size of a photograph is part of its [...]

While the rest of the world is showering you with street style porn from the New York Fashion week, we would like to do something different. Here is our second installment of StyleZeitgeist mixes. This one is by Karlo Steel, the mastermind behind the iconic men’s boutique, Atelier. In our first volume, Cintra Wilson interviewed [...]

There is no doubt in our mind that the Iceland-based designer Sruli Recht is one of the most interesting creators out there. Finally, there is an opportunity to buy his otherworldly designs from his newly relaunched webshop. We highly recommend the wallets, bags, and of course the special edition of StyleZeitgeist magazine. http://store.srulirecht.com/

Here is the new section of our blog, where we invite people who have participated in StyleZeitgeist Magazine, whether as subject or contributor, to create their own mixtape. Fashion is often intertwined with music, so we thought why not? Our first mix is by Rick Owens. Rick contributed the flagship piece on his role models [...]

Following the success of their first shop Desenzano del Garda, Italy, the founders of Tabo, Riccardo Bettoni & Nicola Tononi, now opened a second boutique in Brescia. The unisex boutique, housed on two floors of a 1940s building is an exercise in aesthetic restrain, with a white interior and minimal decor. Among the more established [...]

To hear “Quay Brothers” is to instantly think of filmmakers famous for handmade, dusty, stop-motion puppet films that harken to some marginal eastern European animation tradition legible to a select few is more a result of the haphazard way we have come to know their work. The principal achievement of the Quay Brothers retrospective at [...]

At StyleZeitgeist magazine we count the menswear editorial, “America Still Likes Me,” one of our proudest moments. Based on the Joseph Beuys’s 1974 infamous performance piece, “I like America and America Likes Me,” it was published in volume 2. We have tried to recreate everything as it was, down to the hay, the felt, and [...]

Spring-summer 2013 marks the fifth mens collection for New York based, Jamaican born designer Zam Barrett. Presented in Paris – handmade in the designers atelier in Brooklyn, the collection compiles wearable clothing with influences from tailored and work wear as well as military garments, and fabrics sourced from Barrett’s homeland as well as the US.

Acrylic sheets, neon tubes, cement, steel plates, glass, rubber, cloth, paper, cotton, sponges, light bulbs, electrical outlets, wire, stone, earth, water, fire, wood, charcoal, and oil – industrial materials, household products, and natural materials were placed together in neutral arrangements. They were brought into temporary involvements or confrontations with a variety of spaces and phenomena, [...]

Boris Bidjan Saberi spring-summer 2013, Paris. Continue reading for the runway video and highlight photos.

Lost & Found by Ria Dunn spring-summer 2013, captured for StyleZeitgeist. Continue reading for photos from the Paris showroom.

The Italian shoemaker showed its spring-summer 2013 collection in Paris during men’s fashion week. The lineup consisted of their signature footwear, bags as well as leather jackets designed with Italian label Layer-0. Continue reading for more pictures from the showroom.

Sruli Recht spring-summer 2013, June 30th, Paris. Continue reading for photos of the full runway presentation photographed for StyleZeitgeist.

Ann Demeulemeester spring-summer 2013, June 30th, Paris. Continue reading for our highlights of the collection.

Preview of the new spring-summer 2013 collection from Julius. Stay tuned for showroom coverage later this week.

Rick Owens spring-summer 2013, June 28th, Paris. Continue reading for the full runway presentantion.

Dear readers – below is the exclusive sneak peak at the upcoming Lost & Found men’s collection. We hope you enjoy it.

Exclusive preview of the upcoming spring-summer 2013 collection IN/YO from Devoa. The collection, featuring entirely new patterns done in very special materials such as Japanese paper-linen, is the label’s first to feature garments for women.

A first look at the spring-summer 2013 collection, from New York based label Inaisce. The collection, entitled Columna Cerului, will be shown in Paris next week. Continue reading for the full lookbook.  

Continue reading for lookbook shots of the current spring-summer 2012 collection from Individual Sentiments, designed by Yoko Ito.

Dear readers, We wanted to share with you the case study our designers, Hi-Res!, did. It includes some gorgeous imagery from the magazine.

ReCikli is a new stand-alone project by Marvielab and designer Mariavittoria Sargentini, presented in January during men’s fashion week. The concept revolves around archived fabrics which undergo a series of treatments and dyeing techniques, giving them a unique, weathered texture.

Boris Bidjan Saberi spring-summer 2013, Paris. Continue reading for the runway show video and highlight photos.

Last Friday night I met Uma Wang, one of the most promising contemporary Chinese fashion designers, whose work I’ve been following for over a year. Currently in New York for forty days, courtesy of the CFDA, Wang is learning the ropes of the American way of doing business at companies like Theory and Google. We [...]

Opened late last year, Eastern Market Fabrica is the second location for the Melbourne based renowned retailer. The original location, named Capela after the old chapel it occupies, is one of the most impressive retail spaces we’ve come across, and the new shop doesn’t fall short. The old, tall industrial space has been left minimal [...]

We are happy to share our newest limited edition covers by Sruli Recht. They are made in Recht’s studio in Iceland from shark skin in edition of ten. All text and logos are etched by laser. Each one is individually numbered. You can purchase them from our website.

For her current show in the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York, titled “Now and Then,” the photographer Sarah Moon had the following quotation from T.S Eliot stenciled on a column – What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present While Moon may be associated in the popular mind [...]

Yoko Ito, the designer behind the Japanese brand Individual Sentiments who cut her teeth at the now defunct Carpe Diem, has launched a capsule footwear collection called IS. Made in Italy, the line will be available in select stores this fall. All we got from the reticent designer was the rather cryptic, “IS has the [...]

The Aperture Foundation’s description of their newly opened exhibition, “Delpire & Co”, is that it “showcases [Robert] Delpire’s rise to prominence in the world of photography through his pioneering and seminal work in magazine and book publishing, films, curatorship, and advertising for the past fifty years.” This it certainly does — in a herculean installation [...]

Dear readers, we are proud to offer a peek at StyleZeitgeist Magazine volume two, which will start shipping very soon. Pre-order your copy here, and continue reading for more shots of the magazine.

A question relevant to contemporary concerns quietly resonates in the elegantly understated show of 30 or so vintage prints shot by Constantin Brancusi in the 1920’s and 30s, currently showing at Bruce Silverstein gallery in New York, and it is namely one of intent. What are we to make of photographs taken by an artist [...]

The launch for Volume 2 of StyleZeitgeist Magazine was held at Atelier New York on April 26th. Continue reading for a video shot by Wataru Bob Shimosato from An Unknown Quantity blog, as well as photos from the party last Thursday.

Dear readers, We are proud to announce the new issue of StyleZeitgeist magazine. The second step is as important as the first, and we have poured our hearts into the making of this volume. Our flagship article is about the deep friendship between PJ Harvey and Ann Demeulemeester and her husband, Patrick Robyn. It is [...]

Upon parting ways with the 120 or so vintage photographs, artist books and short videos installed in the Guggenheim’s Francesca Woodman retrospective, I found myself feeling, oddly, a little more solid in my own skin.  Because these photographs emphatically exclude any sense of exterior setting, color, narrative, time, the weather even, and, in withholding anything [...]

Here is a little preview of one of the editorial photo shoots that will appear in the second issue of StyleZeitgeist magazine. Joseph Beuys: America Still Loves Me from jeff elstone on Vimeo.

Dear readers, We will have a gathering during the New York Fashion Week. We hope you can make it. Best, SZ Team    

Yesterday evening we visited the opening of The Smallest Traveling Store in The World, a mini-guerilla shop by the Belgian design duo A.F.Vandevorst. The store-within-a-store took up residence at Patron of the New, a multi-brand boutique in Tribeca, New York. This is its first stop in the U.S. after being featured at places like The [...]

Last week Geoffrey B. Small, an American designer who lives and works in Italy, presented his new collection in Paris. Small works outside of the confines of the fashion system and he is a civic activist, so when he puts on a show it’s usually because he is engaged with a political issue that is [...]

During my recent visit to Italy, I caught up with my favorite scarf makers, Faliero Sarti. Here is a look at the highlights from their F/W 2012 collection. The scarves and shawls looked impeccable as usual and Federico Sarti explained to me some interesting fabric treatments and weaving techniques. It turns out that one of [...]

Our friends at Lumen et Umbra are cooking up something special for next week in Paris. Here is a little preview video they did for the concept of their new collection. LEU AW2012-13 / ANATOMICAL STUDIES from Alessandro Tinelli on Vimeo.

It’s an open secret in the fashion world that New York offers little in terms of creative design and much in terms of hype. But there are exceptions, the label InAisce being one of them. Its designer, Jona (last name undisclosed), was happy to offer us a preview of his new collection for men and [...]

‘Tis the season to be jolly, and not because of Christmas. The super-duper limited edition definitive Sarah Moon monograph “12345,” whose first printing several years ago sold out in weeks, has been reprinted by Thames and Hudson. The five soft cover volumes come in a sturdy slip case and it is the most comprehensive body [...]

Dear readers, You might have seen our beautiful photo essay on Guidi. Well, our friends at Atelier, undoubtedly New York’s best menswear boutique, are having an exhibition of the photographs from the same series that went into the article. Moreover, from December 2 to the 4, you can order your own custom pair of Guidi [...]

Dear readers, We just wanted to let you know that more photos of StyleZeitgeist Magazine, Issue 1, are available on the website of our designers, Hi-Res! Enjoy!

We reviewed the newest Deborah Turbeville’s book, The Fashion Pictures, in the first issue of SZ magazine. This week I was pleasantly surprised to find out that a selection of Turbeville’s photography is on view at Staley-Wise gallery, hidden above the hubbub of Broadway in SoHo. The exhibit consists of twenty-one prints that transport you [...]

We covered the brilliant creations of Iris van Herpen, the Dutch haute couture designer who makes her otherworldly creations using 3-D printing, in the first issue of StyleZeitgeist magazine. Here is a video of her beautifully haunting show in Paris that took place this past summer. The clothes take on a completely different dimension when [...]

We are very happy to share this video interview by Getty with Florian Schmitt, the co-founder of Hi-Res!, the agency that designs our magazine. They are truly amazing, creative, and gracious. Getty profiles Hi-Res!

Lumen et Umbra, the under-the-radar Italian label known for its deceptively simple menswear, introduced their first collection of womenswear in Paris earlier this month. Issei Fujita, the Japanese-born designer who has been working in Italy since 1999, has transferred the same understated complexity of his men’s garments into tops, skirts, pants, and jackets for women. [...]

If the thought of peeking into a wealthy woman’s closet makes you feel uncomfortable, you are not alone. Surely there’s something odd about finding in a museum context what is ostensibly a display of personal taste (and a taste made possible by vast and inherited means, at that). And isn’t there also something improper — [...]

One of the best things about StyleZeitgeist is that it brings an amazing amount of creative and talented people together. We would like to reflect that in the magazine. If you would like to write, photograph, style, do makeup or hair for issue 2 of StyleZeitgeist magazine, we will be happy to consider you. We [...]

EXCLUSIVE TO STYLEZEITGEIST: Lost & Found shawls, limited edition of 10. 88% linen, 12% silk. Width, 135cm, length, 200cm. $250US/$275 global, including a copy of StyleZeitgeist Magazine, Volume 1, available in our market.  

We had a fantastic time at our London launch party and here are some photos to prove it. A big thanks to Layers for making it happen.