stylist & photographer: Hakan Solak
model: Ilias Paci (@ Viva Models)
FRIENDS: A Sustainably-Minded Fashion Editorial By Byron Jesus
Shot by Allison Nguyen, featuring (model) Cameron Rose, (painter/model) Lila Doliner, (photographer) Bradley J Cooper, (designer/Model) Kristian Kane, styled by Marilyn Monroy and Byron Jesus, creative direction by Byron Jesus, casting by Büst Agency.
Featured brands: Bonfire of the Vanities @bonfireofthev, PHLEMUNS @phlemuns, Comme des Garçons @commedesgarcons, Boy Kloves @boyagainstthesea. @blk_pr, @jjjordandouglas,
A Preview Of "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between" @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute In New York
The Costume Institute's spring 2017 exhibition will examine the work of Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, known for her avant-garde designs and ability to challenge conventional notions of beauty, good taste, and fashionability. The thematic show will feature approximately 150 examples of Kawakubo's womenswear for Comme des Garçons dating from the early 1980s to her most recent collection. The galleries will illustrate the designer's revolutionary experiments in "in-betweenness"—the space between boundaries. Objects will be organized into eight aesthetic expressions of interstitiality in Kawakubo's work: Fashion/Anti-Fashion, Design/Not Design, Model/Multiple, Then/Now, High/Low, Self/Other, Object/Subject, and Clothes/Not Clothes. Kawakubo breaks down the imaginary walls between these dualisms, exposing their artificiality and arbitrariness. On view from May 4 to September 4, 2017 at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Read Our Round-Up Review of Paris Fashion Week 2015 →
Again, I will have to touch upon what makes this particular round unique to the industry and important for fashion. But honesty, do I actually need to make an argument concerning Paris and its total domination of conceptual fashion? OK, here’s an argument for you: Raf Simons, Rick Owens, Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yammamoto, Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela, Junya Wattanabe, Olivier Rousteing, and need I continue? A lot happens at Paris: some bad, some good, and some utterly transcendent. It’s too much to write about really. It’s the longest of the fashion weeks and it can be easy to forget about incredible shows mere days after they happened. Today as I am baffled yet excited over the announcement of Demna Gvasalia of Vetements being named creative director to Balenciaga while former Balenciaga godhead Nicolas Ghesquiere continues to alter the fabric of what we know to be Louis Vuitton, I almost forgot that Rick Owens put on the funniest and most conceptual collection of the week. So another season is over, and the buying begins. See you at the menswear shows. Click here to read the full review. Text by Adam Lehrer.
Hippopotamus Clutches & Stalactites
Continuing its tradition of amazing window displays, multibrand boutique Dover Street Market (an initiative of Comme Des Garcons) in London has commissioned Paris based fashion designer Damir Doma to create a temporary window display for for its Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Damir Doma, in collaboration with Parisian design and production studio Les Diplomates, using ancient cave formations as inspiration, have created a giant stalactite like structure made from wood that was burned by hand that will ultimately contrast against the pale linen and bright golden garments by the designer. There will also be a limited edition collection of 10 clutches made from rare hippopotamus skin exclusively available at Dover Street Market. You can see the window display February 24 to March 16 – DSM, 17-18 Dover Street, London.