Dear readers,
Here are some photos of the SILENT line by Damir Doma, Spring/Summer 2014, presented at Pitti Uomo in Florence. The last three pieces are women’s, the rest are men’s. We will post the full look-book shortly.
All clothing: TAKAHIROMIYASHITA TheSoloIst F/W 2013 “AMRCN DANDIES”
Photography: Wenjun Miakoda Liang Styling: Eugene Rabkin Model: Wataru Shimosato
Shot on location in TriBeCa, New York City.
The Japanese label Individual Sentiments, designed by Yoko Ito, has teamed up with the finest Italian artisans to produce a capsule collection of footwear, IS.
All shoes are handmade from vegetable tanned bison, horse, and calf leather.
Available for F/W 2013 at select retails around the world.
Photography: Wenjun Miakoda Liang | Styling: Eugene Rabkin | Hair: Takeo Suzuki | Makeup: Victor Amos
Male Model: Paul Boche at Fusion | Female Model: Jelena Salikova at Muse
Dear readers,
Please check out the work of Nico Uytterhaegen, the Belgian designer who produces some brilliant bags, footwear, jewelry and a perfume series. We are glad to share the showroom space with Nico in Paris during the men’s fashion week next month at 13 rue de Thorigny in the Marais district.
“It’s all about embodiment in the digital age,” – I overheard at the opening of the Iris Van Herpen’s exhibition at SHOWcabinet, Belgravia’s new installation space curated by Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio project. The man who said it was Tobias Klein, one of the artists whose work accompanies Van Herpen’s in SHOWcabinet. His sculptures shown here include an extract from The Invisible Human, a 3D-printed Magnetic Resonance Image of a human abdomen with aluminium sulphate crystals grown over it in a process that echoes those occurring in the body when it is dying. If this sounds a bit complex, it is because Klein’s work, just like that of most participants’, oscillates between art and science.
In case you did not know, GUIDI, the Italian maker of shoes and bags, is also a tannery with a 120 year tenure, called Guidi & Rosellini.
Next season the company pays tribute to its heritage by relaunching the Guidi & Rosellini brand of shoes and bags. All products will be made from cowhide leather that will not be shaved before tanning, rendering each hide unique due to its varying thickness.
First time I came across Taiana Giefer’s work, I spent a while examining one of her scarves. It was majestic, in a fairy tale way, something from another era. I wondered about how it was constructed, the crisscrossing wool felt surfaces that formed a kind of a grid, leaving openings like fortress embrasures. The fringes looked liked dreadlocks; the whole things was tactile, alive. A year later I met the California-born designer when we used her scarves for one of the StyleZeitgeist magazine editorials.
Dear readers, I am happy to announce the launch of OtherFashion, the new e-commerce project curated by StyleZeitgeist. This venture arose quite spontaneously, from numerous encounters with under-the-radar designers who do impressive work but are not necessarily well-known, usually because they do not want or cannot afford to play by the rules of the…
Dear readers,
We wrote about the otherworldly work of Aoi Kotsuhiroi in our second print volume. Those of you who will be attending the Arnhem Fashion Biennial in Holland, curated under the theme “Fetishism in Fashion,” will be able to experience Kotsuhiroi’s creations in the flesh, but we offer a little preview here.