Vintage Inspired Menswear
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..
First things first, we take a look at this huge lookbook for Fall Winter 2012 from Gant Rugger. An excellent collection of smarter looks without any stuffiness or formality. Suits, slim but not skinny, in some great wool fabrics alongside camel overcoats, wintery knits and impressive accessories. A meeting of American classics and that Pitti Blazer-centric approach. Second order of business. Gant introduce the ‘Cook GANT Rugger‘ project. The beginnings of what will eventually become a cookbook, designer Christopher Bastin shares some of his favourite recipes and encourages us, the general public, to submit our own. As you may remember in our preview, Fall 2012 has apparently been hugely influenced by food, the New York downtown restaurant scene and a selection of chefs turned models. We’ll let you head over to the site and figure it all out for yourself.
Two classic American brands come together to create this smart take on the 4553 boot. The iconic Red Wing Heritage 6″ moc-toe cut is given some traditional Brooks Brothers styling with a hard-wearing panel of Halley Stevensons tartan plaid oilcloth. The collaboration coincides with a series of events running through October and November at Brooks Brothers locations throughout the United States and Canada. For the first time since the 1900s the Red Wing Heritage collection, in its entirety, will be available to purchase direct from Red Wing representatives waiting to answer any of those nagging boot questions you’ve been dying to ask. Check the schedule below for Brooks Brothers location details. October 11 – 14 Flatiron, New York City October 19 – Royal Bank, Toronto, ON October 20 – Bloor Street, Toronto, ON October 20 – Georgetown, Washington, DC October 20 – Maple Grove, MN November 10 – Newbury Street, Boston, MA November 16 – Princeton, NJ November 17 – Durham, NC
Unis and Common Projects have come together to create a special colorway for the Original Achilles sneaker. Offered in a special dark army green color, the shoes are crafted in Italy from soft and durable Nappa leather with a stitch reinforced rubber cup sole. As with all Common Projects shoes, the branding is subtle and consists solely of the gold stamp on the back quarter of the shoe. An understated and classic model, these look to be the ideal shoe for dressing up and dressing down this season. Available in both mid-top and low-top cuts, these shoes can be found at Unis boutiques and the Unis online store. Source: Jake Davis Blog
Art of Shaving Badger Brush and Straight Razor
Herme's Tee
Konica FC-1
Leather Duffel
Rolex Submariner and Gold Bracelet
Wallet
iPhone 4 and iPhone 5
Apolis Keychain
Bally Loafers
Tiger Stripe Camo Pants
Matte Black Ray-Ban Wayfarers
101st Airborne Patch
Ernest Alexander impresses us once again with these quality "Mitchell" Chambray Shirts. Made right here in the USA in NYC. Some of the key features of this shirt include:
“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.
Set on the back roads of Northern California, San Francisco’s Acrimony presents its Fall 2012 lookbook highlighting its latest stock of menswear. Inspired by the idea of a “road to nowhere,” the sparse landscape of the lookbook’s imagery showcases trousers, sweaters, button-downs and footwear alongside bags, beanies and more from Robert Geller, DRKSHDW by Rick Owens, wings + horns, Reigning Champ, P.A.M., Makr Carry Goods, Gitman Bros. Vintage, Miansai and Lifetime Collective. Each of the ready-to-wear pieces from the various designers’ Fall 2012 collections are now available in-store at Acrimony’s two Bay Area flagships and online.
A great film from Kevin Steen, Jon Contino‘s work is probably familiar to most throughCXXVI Clothing Company, the business he co-founded as an outlet for his endless stream of designs and ideas. However he’s long been in demand, hand-drawing incredible things for the likes of Coca-Cola, Nike, NYT, Absolut, Billykirk and many many more. Here he talks about his early days of non-stop scribbling and his hopes to inspire other budding artists in the future.
Maiden Black prepares to celebrate its seventh anniversary with this capsule collection in collaboration with seven different brands: Challenger, Stussy Deluxe, NexusVII, New Era, Porter, Timberland and Skookum. Pieces designed for the occasion will be available from September 15, exclusively in a pop-up shop in the Stussy Harajuku chapter store and for a period of two weeks. The pop-up shop will then open its doors to New York (NYC Stussy), Toronto (Haven), Los Angeles, and finally Seattle.
Our Legacy continues to express control in their designs never edging too far away from their Scandinavian roots. Garments express change in color material while the shapes and fits remain safe for most. Patterned prints on suits and PJ’s may work for some. All products available at www.thehipstore.co.uk Photographed by www.liamalvy.com
Corter Leather is a super-small, one man operation. Every product is 100% hand made by maker Eric Heins in a small apartment studio in Boston, Massachusetts. Each piece is designed in house, cut by memory, hand punched, and hand sewn. Templates are never made, so no two pieces perfectly alike.
Among the various magazine editorials out there representing WTAPS, GRIND‘s are perhaps the best at conveying how a WTAPS photoshoot should be done. This month is no exception, with another solid production that features Japanese actor Jun Murakami. Everyone knows by now that a WTAPS collection means a range of military-inspired garments, and this season doesn’t disappoint. The emphasis is on outerwear, with particular focus given to one of this season’s standout pieces: the ¥210,000 JPY (approximately $2,680 USD) horse leather DAS BOOT jacket, along with the BLACKWATCH Melton wool pea coat, MA-1 and B-9 jackets. Rings, necklaces and another look at the WTAPS x WOLF’s HEAD collaboration belt help complement the looks perfectly. The 2012 fall/winter “YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE” collection from WTAPS is available now at the GIP-STORE, HOODS stores and all other WTAPS stockists worldwide.
Distinct Life has gotten together with the Detroit Denim Company to create a pair of limited edition jeans as a part of the first offering of Distinct Life’s Dry Goods collection. The jeans were hand made in Michigan with Cone Mills white line selvedge denim. Features include a top button milled from a solid piece of copper and attached with a screw and contrasting pocket bags that reflect the Distinct Life corporate colors. Another notable detail is the Horween leather patch co-designed by Rick Williams and Frank The Butcher.
Vintage Inspired Menswear and Lifestyle
