Now available on the Bonnie&Clyde’s webstore is the our remaining Rick Owens SS10 Collection accessories.

Rick Owens Runway sneakers

Rick Owens Runway Collection bags

Be sure to check out the Rick Owens SS10 Runway accessories now available on www.bonnieandclydes.com

http://www.bonnieandclydes.com/store/index.php?o=mens_new_items

Cheers,

Alexandrew

Check out this new blog that, Jonny Cota – designer of Skingraft – showed me last night.

It’s called Twisted Lamb (www.twistedlamb.com) and it is incredible! Full of inspiring images with a cohesive aesthetic to the vision of Bonnie&Clyde’s.  Here are a few images that I pulled myself.  

Be sure to check it out!

Also, a new shipment of Rick Owens DRKSHDW SS10 is about to arrive! Be sure to stop into the shop or keep an eye on the webstore to see the new merchandise!

-Alexandrew

Rick Owens is that rare figure whose story, work, and success are so terrifically singular and unique that my attempt to capture them in summary and reference feels like holding a mirror before a blind man in attempt to explain to him his appearance.  Rick Owens stands, in my eyes and those of many others, as an artist of the highest order.  A master of his craft, an ardent student of its history and endless variables, his tale is something of modern myth, a living contemporary narrative of a genuine artist’s journey.   His work is defiantly original and impeccably realized and over the years has acquired the support and admiration of critics, celebrities, and patrons alike.  Above all, his success has come without compromise to the integrity and identity of his creations.

Fashion, like all artistic mediums, is full of both original and borrowed ideas and concepts. In the same way that painters walk a fine line between taking inspiration from another’s style and outright plagiarism, designers constantly pull from past ideas as well as from those of contemporaries.  The boundary between original and copied ideas can be blurry and sometimes indistinguishable.  But for discriminate appreciators and consumers of art and fashion, finding the origin of certain ideas, movements, styles, and concepts is a vital mission, one that can be extremely difficult, often yielding fruitless results.

For those of you whose quest is to find such authenticity and freshness of vision, Rick Owens is your guy. The man is a genuine original. As avant-garde becomes more and more tangible and accessible to a wider audience, it becomes all the more difficult to create.  Something minimal can only be nuanced in so many ways before becoming a tired imitation of itself.  Somehow though, Rick Owens continually creates work that is new, that is challenging, that is ever true to an aesthetic identity all his own.  His design is perpetual invention, continually spawning an entity that does not exist before he has created it. And whenever Rick Owens’ work is not an outright invention, it is a solecism of tradition executed so perfectly that it produces a new kind of standard.

In some designers, avant-garde and asymmetrical elements feel hollow and listless.  The same can be said about some painters in abstract movements such as Cubism and Constructivism.  Picasso showed an impeccable talent at painting photographically realistic images early in his career before moving beyond that to the more abstract, minimal Cubist work for which he is renowned.  Picasso’s command of traditional art fundamentals served as a platform on which his abstract work could stand.  As Rick Owens’ told John Colpatino in an article for the New Yorker, “Picasso did classic figure drawing in the beginning, and then, after that, he abstracted.  You can’t convincingly get abstract until you really know the fundamentals. You can’t start distorting things unless you kind of know what you’re doing.”

INJURY is a new line being carried Bonnie&Clyde’s for SS10. Eugene Leung of Sydney, Australia started Injury in 2004 and has continued to claim his place in fashion since.

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A very exciting element to the Injury line is the modern silhouette the clothing makes against the body and the dark gothic undertones of the graphic prints throughout the collection. Injury has a certain minimalist architecture to the cut of the jackets and pants, which mixes street-wear ethics with the cleanliness of fine European tailoring.

Most of Injury’s line is unisex, further mixing gender norms in fashion by bridging personal style and individuality with transcending the limits that gender can play in dressing. Because Injury is on the pulse of the present in fashion and steering the path of fashion tomorrow, it is a growing and increasingly finding its way to the global fashion market

The SS10 collection for Michel Berandi has me all hot and bothered and filled with anticipation of its arrival in Bonnie&Clyde’s this season.
Berandi’s Spring 2010 look offers a tailored silouette complimented by beautifully constructed leather pieces that seem edgy but upon further inspection are quite delicate.

Michel Berandi’s former line, MB99, which is still available at Bonnie&Clyde’s follows a dark pallete that is consistent with his Michel Berandi line.  The current line, bearing his name, is composed of various fitted neutral leathers. Such looks are completed with offerings of slim cut pinstripe jackets, vests and suits.