The Great Divide would like to present their new AW12 lookbook featuring the familiar names such as Our Legacy, Penfield, Reigning Champ, Gant Rugger & Wood Wood. And some less familiar ones like Key & Eastie.
Despite its relative anonymity in North America, Italian menswear label Esemplare has been crafting its clothing at Manifattura Riese since 1961 – collections founded on values such as creativity, quality and research. The label’s intention was always to create garments that adapt to one’s personality — not vice versa — and for Fall/Winter 2012, presents another strong offering of outerwear, tailoring and knits. A merging of past and future, technology and handcraftsmanship, and aesthetics and function, the garments include everything from down parkas and heavy knit cardigans to soft-shouldered blazers and duffel coats. Above all, each garment complements the wearer and should be the kind of artisanal heirloom pieces handed down with a wealth of stories and personality. Esemplare’s fittingly exemplary collection for Fall/Winter 2012 is available now online and from a growing number of Italian and international stockists.
Tokyo-based retailer/brand BEAMS presents its Fall/Winter 2012 collection in its entirety. Focusing on faithfully recreating American classics using only the finest Japanese fabrics and craftsmanship, the collection also heavily employs Harris Tweed across an assortment of menswear staples – including coats, vests, sweaters and trousers. With an undeniable functionality achieved due in large part to the trim cuts, one can’t overlook the accessible colors employed which includes indigo, grey, green, brown and red. Expect to see the Fall/Winter 2012 collection from BEAMS at their retail shops all across Asia.
Japanese label Phigvel Makers Co. today introduced the lookbook of their new collection for Fall / Winter 2012. Drawing inspiration from vintage American workwear, the collection offers timeless silhouettes with beautiful jackets, pullovers, shirts, pants, t-shirts, etc..
Publish is a brand that prides itself on timeless products “that transcend the realms of art and fashion.” For Fall/Winter 2012, the label’s collection is titled, “The Officer and Gentleman,” with its primary influences being military garments refined for the modern gentleman. As such, the clothes take on a more sophisticated polish for the season while still leaning heavily on technical details and prints. Included in the line are familiar styles and motifs — elasticized jogger pants, contrast pocket tees and camouflage patterns that all make encore appearances in fresh makeups. Meanwhile, the label’s range of seasonal outerwear is the collection’s real standout, a blend of classic outdoors-inspired styles and street elegance. Publish’s “The Officer and Gentleman” collection for Fall/Winter 2012 is available now at the brand’s worldwide stockists and online.
“Sweden from above” provided the inspiration for J.Lindeberg‘s Spring/Summer 2013 collection. As seen through the Swedish label’s design lens, this bird’s eye view of the country translated to clean lines, watery shades of blue, forest hues, and sandy neutrals. Black leather and bright flashes of orange, meanwhile, hinted at other, slightly less rustic influences — in this case, motorcycle culture. Long a Lindeberg affinity, biker jackets came in nylon-lined makeups, layered under and over suit jackets. Speaking of suits, there was an increased emphasis on tailoring for the new collection — as CEO Stefan Engström had pronounced earlier, “We want to really establish ourselves as a Scandinavian fashion house.” This meant slim-cut suits with high armholes, many of them double-breasted, showing a renewed initiative towards higher levels of sartorial relevance.
The collections of A Kind Of Guise feature a mix of a wide variety of styles, putting effort into every piece’s uniqueness with a special focus on color and detail. Their Fall/Winter Collection 2012 is entitled ’The Carpathian Season’. This is their discriptive text to the concept of the collection:
A year ago a good friend of ours decided to leave everything behind, to live a lonely life somewhere in the outback of south-east europe. His journey led him to an ostrich farm near the serbian border. Ever since he lives there raising ostriches.He kindly invited us and early this winter we decided to pay him a visit.
Once being there we took the chance to travel across nearby countries, getting to know their culture and people..
As it was in previous collections this experience of changing our environment and getting to know something new heavily influenced our next Autumn/Winter collection for 2012.
The way of life and the attitude of the people we meet is what we try to translate into our products. This time the “Carpathian Season” is the outcome of this process.
A look through the Private White V.C. men’s collection for Fall Winter 2012. The British made menswear line featured a complete range of outerwear for all conditions and more importantly for all consumers. The DB Trench in navy blanket and SB Tweed belted navy coat are just two of the standout jackets in the collection. Browse the Private White V.C. collection in our gallery.
The 28-year-old is part of a school of designers who through their work consider the effects of emerging technology on daily life. In particular, he examines the shifting role of architecture - an area in which he has trained, having spent two years after university working at Atelier Bow Wow, the much-lauded Tokyo architects known for their innovative use of urban space.By way of illustration he begins to describe his upcoming project in collaboration with Veuve Cliquot, opening at the V&A this September as part of the London Design Festival. Prism will be hosted in the museum's cupola room - the building's domed tower - and aims to express this virtual-physical boundary by using the city itself as an illustrative device.
Available on Pre-Order, Japan’s United Arrows create two jackets for Monocle. Soft, lightweight woven gauze blazers, the store offers two models, the ever reliable Navy and a well chosen check in Autumn colours. Find them both here.
