Divisive designer Thom Browne teams up with Dita Eyewear for the second season in a row to produce bravely innovative glacier glasses, as well as classic aviators and round tortoiseshell shades. And, while the new styles are fantastic, Stylesight can’t help but wonder where the futuristic robot-punk glasses from Browne’s F/W 12 runway show are? Even without these outlandish lenses,
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Esteemed Swiss watchmakers Girard-Perregaux have been producing precision timepieces since the late 18th Century, so it may be surprising to some that the maker of the luxurious triple bridge, rose gold Tourbillon has launched a site devoted to the youth and dynamism of the companies new crop of young craftspeople. Check out Girard-Perregaux’s New Face of Tradition website to meet
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For everyone who ever wanted a Rolex but couldn’t quite afford one, artist Shelter Serra comes to the rescue with his fake Submariner cast in silicone. While Serra’s reproduction of Rolex’s iconic timepiece might not come in white gold or have, say, the ability to keep time, it too can withstand underwater depths of 100 meters, and packs the punch
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Yesterday, lucky Stylesight editors stopped by two amazing showrooms – the CMPR showroom, which showed a range of excellent lines like Scott James, Stone Island, L.B.M. 1911, and MAC JEANS, and Oliver Spencer’s space full of chic UK street goods.
The savvy Spencer always displays a host of hip references and influences, and this collection was no exception, drawing on the
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AMERICAN IN MILAN
New York: There is some sense that Billy Reid, and his preppy, Alabama-based operation, is America’s designer. So it’s interesting that as American-inspired sportswear, with its bright preppy palate and soft shoulders has recently hit so hard in Milan, that Reid would be one to bring us finely-structured suits topped off by dramatically roped shoulders, that most Italian
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BIG PAPA
New York: N. Hoolywood headman Daisuke Obana called his F/W 12 collection “The Kapitan” in honor of its inspiration—Earnest Hemingway. Though the show notes referenced both Hemingway’s time in the Red Cross and his long sojourn to Cuba, much of this gear in solid canvas, rich mouton, and sturdy wool appeared most suitable for hunting and fly fishing in
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SCI-FI SAMURAI
New York: Alexandre Plokhov likes to play with gender and identity, famously combining a love for men in skirts with overtly masculine elements. This collection follows that model, but where the designer’s S/S 12 collection delivered a dose of trim, military tailoring this collection goes another route offering long, languid silhouettes that somehow manage to feel slim and loose
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BOLD BILLOW
New York: Duckie Brown duo Steven Cox and Daniel Silver delivered a collection of contradictions, full of meticulously tailored jackets in fine materials like barathea, that sat atop billowing, slouchy trousers in buffalo plaids and tweeds. Suits came in the same proportions, while some tops, like the standout Fair Isle sweater, matched the bottoms, all creating a sartorial conundrum
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ICEMAN
New York: For his F/W 12 collection NUMBER: Lab designer Luis Fernandez looked to ice climbing to embody Buckminster Fuller’s idea of "ephemeralization", by which humans transcend natural limitations with technology. Fernandez succeeded by pairing technical accoutrements — actual ice axes, climbing helmets, and headlamps — with clean-cut sportswear. Fernandez’s icemen were gentlemen in weather-treated wools and oiled cottons, that
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RIDERS ON THE STORM
New York: Nicholas Kunz claimed her inspiration was Georgia O’Keeffe and her artsy Sante Fe circle this season, but for her menswear the designer produced a look that seemed more Blood Meridian, sending models clad in dark, flowing jersey and wool knits layered with oversize scarves, ponchos, leather straps, dusters, and cowboy hats. The addition of military
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