SUPER "W" Frames

The newest release (available early Spring 2010 so hold your horses) from SUPER are absolutely filthy. Making their way through the celebrity ranks now they will be available to all (for under $150) come spring time. Keep your eyes peeled!

Jeremy Scott has had a HUGE 2009

For our designer of today we take a look into some of Jeremy Scott's work from this year. Between his work earlier this year with Linda Farrow eyewear (my favorite being the flinstones inspired television collaboration). Now some of the latest Originals by Originals collaboration with Adidas can be peeped below (full coverage at High Snobiety). The kicks were a big hit as part of the Jeremy Scott Flinstones themed runway show. Please excuse the poor image quality above-- taken on my phone at LFW Exhibition. Enjoy!

KTZ Catwalk

The show was absolutely breathtaking from start to finish.

While I might have done without some of the members of the audience (particularly the women whom I was crammed next to while waiting to get into the catwalk) the show itself was wonderful and the staff pulled everything together without a hiccup. The audience was definitely full of young independent designers, Hackney socialites, Hoxton-square-hipsters and beautiful models alike.

My View of it All

The music selection was excellent, real deep cuts and hard-hitting bass. The build up to the first model was huge: a bit of a super-hero meets motorcycle gang build up leading towards a big bass line. Admittedly, the first piece could have hit a little harder, but everything was looking up from there. Combining intricate details and incredible tailoring KTZ hit the nail on the head. With some pieces delicately crocheted with lace, others held together with massive stitching and corset-style lacing the range was certainly eclectic and covered most interests. KTZ did very well with their choice of shapes and managed to create pieces using polygons that still seemed to flow (an achievement that I have never seen before). The contrast between rigidity and fluidity was incredible throughout.

The menswear was well done, some great patterns/palettes were used and the show was well varied. Many of the pieces looked somewhat like the bastard love-child of street-fighter (the Sega Genesis version obviously) and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air while other pieces looked a bit more like an Oakland Raiders trip to Miami Beach during pride week. The menswear was largely a great accomplishment. I cannot say that I am excited for the return of mesh tops for men (I thought these died after the filming of The Birdcage) but the Skeletor tops were absolutely filthy—I would probably travel all the way to Castle Gray Skull just to have one. The only real failing in terms of menswear was the attempt to take a feminine shoe and make it masculine. While the idea seemed to work quite well on the women’s shoes, the attempt at foot-bondage was a large shortcoming in my book. Thankfully, there were some more traditional and colorful vans-style slip-ons with some great colorways and the aerosol skull tee and the accompanying trousers were the new hotness.

The womenswear was almost perfectly flawless. Varying between colorful rigid shapes, and tastefully scandalous usage of lace, accented by futuristic eyewear and the single freshest looking (though likely unpractical) handbags I have ever seen KTZ really cleaned up on the womenswear and even managed to upstage the gorgeous woman in the front row wearing the white j-lo style dress with biker gloves. With pieces ranging from “Fantasy” t-shirts reminiscent of a Lupe Fiasco album cover, big ol’ pointy shoulder pads on tops and the finest tailoring I have ever seen on my life on the last pair of trousers KTZ absolutely killed it on the womens collection.

The close of the show left me hungry for more and truly pumped up. All in all, the show was a great success and KTZ’s forthcoming line is a force to be reckoned with.

Full pictorial available now via http://www.onoff.tv/ with video to follow (will embed once it is available).

Images Via: On/Off

London Fashion Week Recap

I will be rolling out a number of featurettes this week on some of my favorite brands from fashion week. There will be at least one catwalk recap and a number of features on some of the brands who were on display in the exhibition. These will be rolled out over the course of the week as I get my hands on more of the press materials (photos, etc)... though in the meantime I am happy to share what I have.

First of all, it is worth noting that the British Fashion Council has done a wonderful job with fashion week this year with their move to Somerset House and 180 Strand. Somerset house is a wonderful place for the main catwalk area and provides some nice historical tones to a trendy to-do full of hipsters and artist types. Meanwhile, 180 Strand has been made into a venue perhaps more fitted for a warehouse-style rave (complete with a number of djs and on-site breakfast!) than for an industry event, yet the BFC have done great things with the space and it definitely has a younger, trendier feel. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

Keep your eyes fixed on the blog as features over the course of the week will include: Puma X Mihara 10th anniversary set, SUPER forthcoming S/S collection, Madras, House of Holland, Linda Farrow (and her work with Matthew Williamson, Jeremy Scott, HOH and others), live coverage from the KOKON TO ZAI catwalk show, and much more!

Image: Matthew Williamson Show LFW Coverage