Filed under: Models
I always fall for/find interesting the ones with hard-to-pronounce names. Dziahileva, Stojiljkovic, and now… Julija Steponaviciute.
Also do you or do you not see just a little but of Freja in her?
-Elliot
Filed under: Chanel
This is insane. Like actually insane. It includes the most beautiful group of friends in the world (Freja), gratuitous Leigh Lezark shots, Baptiste (ehh), Les Caves, and in the end it is just… just insane! Not sure if it’s good or bad. Actually it’s bad – very stereotypical. Very Karl. But it is shot beautifully. I don’t know what else to say! I’m kind of dumbfounded!
It makes me want to drop absolutely everything and go to Saint Tropez like…tonight…on the Delta flight to Nice out of JFK at 8:48…there are still tickets available… Re-watching now… seriously…
-Elliot
Filed under: Uncategorized
Today I woke up and decided I wanted to spend money online. So after checking out the regulars (Luisa via Roma, Brown’s, Barneys, AlohaRag) I remembered that Opening Ceremony has an e-commerce option (don’t know why I always forget about OC…)
And looky-here! These pieces are from a designer named Dana Lee. IDK if Dana is a boy’s or a girl’s name in this instance. I really like it, but I also like how some people will see it and think that it’s hideous. I support ombre. I also like how the leather jacket is a way more affordable, men’s version of Alex Wang’s signature denim x calf blouson.
Available here if you want it.
-Elliot
Filed under: Ksubi
So I thought a bit about Ksubi. In honor of Australian fashion week and Elliot’s ownership of many jeans. As far as their jeans go, I REALLY DON’T LIKE that, in order to buy a pair that fits properly (without using pliers to zip them up and then doing squats for an hour in their LES dressing room. No, this never happened to me, I’ve just seen it happen to unfortunate size 25′s), you have to go up at least ONE WHOLE SIZE. Models must enter therapy after a fitting. BUT, Ksubi is one of the most talented, interesting, and impossibly cool–cool in the way Erin Wasson and lot’s of boys that sort of skateboard wish they were cool–brands that has happened in the last ten or so years.
This coolness factor is further justified by Ksubi’s quirky, kinda confusing, but really, er, cool website. Someone who has problems concentrating might either never leave the site or their brain might explode as there are links to other links within the site that lead you to projects that have been done and then you can arrive at this photo, which is called “August Death Machine.”
Or this photo, which is part of the “Eyewear” icon, which is also, elsewhere in the site, called “bookclub.”
And this is George Gorrow, Ksubi Creative Director, and his studio.
Thanks Selby for the photos.
-Isabel
Filed under: Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn_QV4qG7Hg&feature=player_embedded#!
I aggressively don’t like this.
-Elliot
I find Australia daunting – I have met some amazing, talented people from the island continent – but it seems like a long way to go for a world that’s not much different from…say…a West Coast USA city. I’ve heard all ranges of accounts – “it’s amazing, you’d love it, you’d fit right in,” and, “just go to LA, Sydney is like a not-so-great version of LA.” (not sure how much validity this claim has).
Either way, Tommy Ton of our continually prominent obsession Jak + Jil has been in Oz for “Sydney Fashion Week.” Being a pretentious New Yorker now (left Miami permanently two weeks ago, but only because of logistical and career reasons. I miss Isabel more and more every day), I chuckle a little at the idea of Sydney Fashion Week, but then I realize this is where labels like Ksubi, Sass and Bide and Kirrily Johnston come from. I have no idea what Johnston’s clothes look like, I just did PR for her once, but her name alone is worth having a label. Naming one of my daughters Kirrily.
Anyway see below for some nice images taken by Ton.
Givenchy. We don’t actually like these but they remind of us “Miami fashion mecca”/arguably insanely overrated shop The Webster. Did this mystery woman shop at the Webster? Probably not. Probably not at all.
Proenza Schouler PS1, small version. For some reason the color, to me, just screams Australia. Can’t explain it, it just does.
These kicks actually inspired this post. They are a variant of the Marni SS2010 kitten heels that caused a reporting stir when they appeared in Milan way back when. Nice, right? Isabel and I enjoy a close relationship with the brand, and we were skeptical at first but these look like a commercially viable solution… and they look comfortable, I think??
June 2010 Vanity Fair cover for your time. I have a love/hate relationship with this cover. The love part I think is obvious. The hate part I can’t really talk about as it is a conflict of interest with work. But yeah. Hope everyone’s week is going well.
-Elliot
Filed under: Photography
Meet V Magazine featured photographer Teng Phour. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to have heard of him, but according to W, where he was a finalist in the W curated W: The Art Project, has an “obsession” with fashion despite being just a photography student at Savannah College of Art and Design. I honestly don’t see anything “fashion-y” about the photographs, just that’s it’s really nice photography (and he uses hot models).
Click here for his website.
-Isabel
Filed under: Uncategorized
Thanks Sartorialist. And Paris + Giovanna.
-Isabel
Filed under: Musings
“Someone had a good time at the concert last night.”
I know that it’s May, but here is The Cut’s monthly “Best and Worst” slide show for April. For those that take fashion far too seriously (like moi) then you will laugh even harder. Keep reading for May (or you can just go on their website).
Click here to see the all the pictures.
-Isabel
