Backstage At The Monse Spring Summer 2017 Presentation During New York Fashion Week
photographs by Mekko Harjo
Introducing Maya Hawke in our Spring 17 Campaign Film. Shot on location in Woodstock, NY, our latest short film 'Far From Here' debuts our upcoming Spring 17 Collection.
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 β 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, βThe 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 β 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.β 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.
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. Snowβs 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
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
Carol Lim and Humberto Leon release their first KENZO fragrance, created in collaboration with famous perfumer Francis Kurkdjian. Evocation of one of the brandβs most iconic prints, KENZO WORLDβs 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.
photograph by Bertrand Rindoff Petrof
Shot and edited by Tyler Ross, Dave Hung and Jacob Smith, featuring Alyx's Fall Winter 2016 collection.
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 β 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.
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. Elbazβs 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 MΓ©caniques CΓ©lestes, is an insight into the ornamental aestheteβs lifelong fascination with all things baroque, classical and talismanic. Gold, diamonds, precious stones and other metals reinterpret the armillary sphere β 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 Maxfieldβs 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, 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.