UK-based AllSaints has decided to eschew the hype of New York Fashion week and escape to Woodstock to shoot their Spring Summer 2017 campaign. The resultant fashion film, entitled Far From Here, provides a breakout role for Maya Thurman-Hawke – yes, daughter of Uma and Ethan. AllSaints' new collection is an ode to endless summers and carries on in their tradition of sartorial rebellion. Creative director Wil Beedle says, “The collection itself is as much about escapism as the film we made with Maya. The starting point was about escaping the city in search of nature – exploring and contemporizing pastoral textures such as dentelle and broderie anglaise. But before long, the collection had also taken us from the countryside into the youthful innocence of the stars and outer space.” The film also features a piece of music by the great Cherokee folk singer Karen Dalton - recorded at the iconic Bearsville Studios, near Woodstock, in 1971. See more from the collection here.
Supreme Honors The Late Dash Snow For Their Autumn/Winter 2016 Collection and Skate Deck Series
Dash Snow was an American multidisciplinary artist born in New York in 1981. With his charismatic personality and spontaneous output, he became a pivotal figure in downtown culture from a young age, embodying its creative and subversive spirit. Writing graffiti prolifically as SACE, he was a member of the world famous IRAK crew. Snow’s gallery work would prove similarly influential. Intent on immortalizing fleeting moments in the lives of he and his friends, he took a prodigious number of photographs that have been exhibited and published worldwide. In addition to photos, installations, zines and video, Snow developed a distinctive collage style that splattered tabloid clippings with bodily fluids and glitter. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 27. Supreme will release the Dash Snow collection of skate decks, sold as a set, alongside a T-shirt featuring the artwork of Dash Snow both in-stores and online on September 8. Japan will see a parallel release on September 10. photo courtesy of Supreme
Claudia Li Spring Summer 2017 Presentation During New York Fashion Week
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Watch "Move On" A Fashion Film Featuring Claire Barrow's AW 2016 Collection
Fashion designer Claire Barrow and photographer Eloise Parry have been friends and collaborators since they attended the University of Westminster to study fashion. Though they moved in different creative directions (Claire to design, Parry to photography) the women have cultivated a fascinating visual aesthetic in Barrow's campaign ads. Parry, who was drawn to Barrow's style defined by black drainpipe jeans and Slayer patches, understands the values, beliefs, and ideas that Barrow filters into her clothing, allowing for a synchronicity that is difficult to find within the confines of high fashion. Parry has shot a film to promote Barrow's recently available FW 2016 collection. Entitled 'Move On,' the video finds a room full of female and male-dressed-up-as-female unknown models in a room, scowling and looking disaffected, dressed head to toe in Claire Barrow. Styled by Haley Wollens, who is known for a gender blurring aesthetic through campaigns with Martine Rose for dis Magazine and Blood Orange's Champagne Coast Music Video, the campaign video purposefully downplays background settings and narrow notions of gender identity. 'Move On' focuses solely on the quality that defines the essence of the Claire Barrow brand: attitude. Text by Adam Lehrer
Watch The New Kenzo World Perfume Campaign Directed By Spike Jonze
Carol Lim and Humberto Leon release their first KENZO fragrance, created in collaboration with famous perfumer Francis Kurkdjian. Evocation of one of the brand’s most iconic prints, KENZO WORLD’s flacon offers a mix of black rubber, pink gold and opaline. In the spirit of this irreverent and lively fragrance, Spike Jonze directed an electric film in which actress and dancer Margaret Qualley performs an unforgettable choreography imagined by Ryan Heffington on an exclusive track by Sam Spiegel & Ape Drums featuring Assassin.
Rest In Peace Sonia Rykiel (1930 to 2016)
photograph by Bertrand Rindoff Petrof
Watch Alyx's 360-Degree Fashion Film Shot In New York's Times Square Featuring The Brand's FW 2016 Collection
Shot and edited by Tyler Ross, Dave Hung and Jacob Smith, featuring Alyx's Fall Winter 2016 collection.
Breakfast and Chill: Watch "Croissant Castles" A New Fashion Film From Down Under
Starring Helen Bedz from Folk Collective and directed by Amy Dellar, aka Indoor Fountains, Croissant Castles is a fashion film for breakfast gluttons, featuring clothing by Base Range and new Melbourne fashion by Sister Studios and Nylons jewellery – all styled by Cecile Huynh with makeup by Rob Povey and hair by Xeneb Allen. The short film also features original music by Mitchell Wood from Leisure Suite and production design by Sara Glaoua.
The Interminable Apprentice: Read Our Interview Of Fine Jewelry Designer Elie Top On His New Collection and Working With Yves Saint Laurent →
Elie Top may just be one of the most glamorous men in Paris. Working silently under the likes of Yves Saint Laurent before his passing, and Alber Elbaz for Lanvin before Elbaz left the helm of the fashion house, Top has gained a keen and sharp insight into the world of luxury jewelry and accessory making. Elbaz’s exit was a perfect excuse for Top to take what he learned as an interminable apprentice and start his own eponymously named label. His new collection, entitled Mécaniques Célestes, is an insight into the ornamental aesthete’s lifelong fascination with all things baroque, classical and talismanic. Gold, diamonds, precious stones and other metals reinterpret the armillary sphere – tiny universes atop a finger, atop a breastbone; perfect and encapsulated. When we met Top, we ambushed him with an interview proposal during a cigarette break from hosting his recent pop up at Maxfield’s in Los Angeles (it was his first ever visit to Los Angeles). Our conversation oscillated between his memories of working with Saint Laurent, his love for jewelry and his new collection. Click here to read more.
Artist Ward Roberts Collaborates With Gucci On #24HourAce
Artist Ward Roberts, who Autre interviewed in March, has released a limited edition shoe as part of Gucci's #24HourAce collection, along with a number of other artists. Ward will be signing copies of his new book Courts 02 on Thursday, July 28, between 5pm and 7pm at Arcana Books in Los Angeles.
Todd Snyder Spring Summer 2017 Runway Presentation During New York Fashion Week: Men's
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Siki Im Spring Summer 2017 and Siki Im Cross Debut Presentation During New York Fashion Week: Men's
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Devon Halfnight LeFlufy Spring Summer 2017 Presentation During New York Fashion Week: Men's
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Rochambeau Spring Summer 2017 Runway Presentation During New York Fashion Week: Men's
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Rideau Spring Summer 2017 Presentation During New York Fashion Week: Men's
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Mark McNairy "New Republic" Debut During New York Fashion Week: Men's
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Krammer and Stoudt Spring Sumer 2017 Presentation During New York Fashion Week: Men's
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Chapter Spring Summer 2017 Presentation During New York Fashion Week: Men's
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Private Policy Spring Summer 2017 Presentation During New York Fashion Week: Men’s
Click here to read the full review. photographs by Adam Lehrer
Read Our Review Of Vetements' Spring 2017 Couture Collection →
From the very beginning, Vetements connected with fashion lovers not because of how different it was, but because of how oddly familiar it is. Demna Gvasalia and his radical collective of European designers are primarily interested in the ways that mainstream products have been co-opted and used by various sub-cultures as signifiers, protectors, and weapons. Demna will tell any interviewer that asks that Vetements is not a “conceptual” brand; that it’s really “just about clothes,” as the brand’s name would lead you to believe. But the fact of the matter, the “just clothes” mantra is conceptual in and of itself. Demna, and stylist Lotta Volkolva, use the identities of clothes to extrapolate ideas from them: a hoodie sized to this means X and jeans with this particular cut mean Y. It’s almost like the viewer or the wearer can project his or her own ideas onto the clothes, like a blank canvas. The skinhead and his bomber jacket, the DJ and his tracksuit, the model and her stilettos: Vetements constantly finds new ways of looking at products we’ve seen, and probably worn, 1000 times. Click here to read more.