Presentation Of The Spring/Summer 2017 NoSesso Collection by Pierre Davis @ Wayside LA in Los Angeles
photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
NoSESSO named after the Italian wording for "no gender", is an LA based fashion brand that aims to blur the lines of traditional male/ female dress through fluid styles. The brand allows beauty to be the chief force behind each creation instead of gender. That paired with the elaborate hand done details makes each piece feel more art than garment. Tonight, NoSESSO will premiere their Spring Summer 2017 collection, entitled Working Girl, along with a soft sculpture installation and an accompanying video about the new line, at Wayside LA (857 S San Pedro Street Unit 310, Los Angeles). Wayside LA will also be hosting a pop up on Saturday where you can purchase NoSESSO items - follow them on Instagram for times.
Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer born in Tokyo in 1940. Araki started his career as a commercial photographer before turning to diary-like documentation which included subjects ranging from the mundanity of everyday life to Japanβs underground sex industry. Continuing his exploration of erotic subjects, Araki incorporated Kinbaku, the Japanese art of bondage with other traditional Japanese themes to create what is now his defining aesthetic. With over 350 books published, Araki is one of the most prolific artists living or dead. This Fall, Supreme has worked with Araki on a Hooded Sweatshirt, Long Sleeve T-Shirt, Short Sleeve T-Shirt and a Zine featuring original photography. Available in-store NY, LA, London, Paris and online November 3rd.
The Trust Building in Sydneyβs Central Business District was transformed into a jungle playground last night for the Australian launch of H&Mβs latest designer collaboration with Parisian fashion house Kenzo. The collaboration officially launches today worldwide. Click here to shop. photographs by Darren Luk
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First look: the Gucci Cruise 2017 campaign, set in the grounds and interior of Chatsworth, captures a cast of eclectic characters alongside acclaimed actress Vanessa Redgrave.
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