Bonjour! Stephen and I just got back from Paris Fashion week, and next season is absolutely mind blowing.  Men’s platform high heels – Ninja coats and FUR.  The already graying line between men’s and woman’s apparel has been blurred even further and men’s fashion has expanded it’s boundaries ten fold.  As the world begins to [...]

From Helsingborg in the south of Sweden, designer Richard Söderberg.  Söderberg is an immensely talented young designer from Sweden whose label is called Obscur (previously “Macabre”). He designs his edgy pieces using a basic dark color palette infused with mass amounts of well constructed creativity. Obscur exemplifies impeccably executed, edgy yet minimal designs. His design palette [...]

Junko Hirata and Atsuko Yanase are the designers behind New York label Ideeen. Ideeen blends a certain intellectual, Japanese aesthetic with a New York goth/streetwear vibe. The designers met while working at Catherine Malandrino and launched their own line in 2007. AW/2009 is Ideen‘s fourth season and featured an edgy downtown mix of knit-and-fur combos. [...]

The “Rudolf Dassler Schuhfabrik” collection is inspired by the timelessness that is sports. Its character is stamped by the influence of cultural styles such as Cubism and Bauhaus, Dadaism and Jazz, Modernism and Avant-garde. With its natural and clean style The Dassler collection is provocative and modern, going back to the origin of sports and [...]

Based on the Freudian concept Pleasure Principle is a line that reflects the human desire to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Founded in 2002, Pleasure Principle is the result of a harmonious collaboration between New York artists/designers Adrian Cowen and Diva Pittala. Cowen and Pittala wanted to bring a conceptual artistic approach to fashion and particularly to [...]