BURBERRY
*B SERIES

october 018

Burberry today revealed that it will be launching monthly product releases on the 17th day of every month, as part of its plans to excite customers with new deliveries and frequent communication.

The monthly releases, designed by the fashion house’s Chief Creative Officer Riccardo Tisci – called B Series – will range in scale and availability, and start with a limited-edition run of a unisex white T-shirt and jersey sweatshirt featuring Burberry’s new TB monogram in red.

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The inaugural B Series release features the TB Monogram which was designed in collaboration with British graphic designer and art director, Peter Saville. The new monogram, which launched in August 2018, celebrates the heritage of the fashion house in a return to the spirit of its founder, whose initials are referenced in the design.

https://www.burberry.com/

SCHUELLER DE WAAL
*The Gateway To Fashion
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october 018

During the last days of Paris fashion week, Dutch design duo SCHUELLER DE WAAL present their vision on fashion in an autonomous presentation at Palais de Tokyo, Toguna. Right when the marathon of fashion weeks frenzy is coming to an end, SDW offers fashion victims or victims of fashion the opportunity of some well deserved Fashion Therapy. Model Iekeliene Stange acts as the fashion therapist, guiding the audience through ‘The Gateway To Fashion’.

For Spring/Summer 2019 SCHUELLER DE WAAL offer FASHION as HYPNOSIS THERAPY. Rather than offering a new collection the designers want to make a statement about the fast pace of fashion and their incapabilities of keeping up. Driven by the idea of giving former designs a new context and using that as research for the development of new design ideas SDW STUDIO presents a fashion film installation, ‘The Gateway To Fashion’.

The presentation of this autonomous statement serves as a suggestive form of ‘FASHION THERAPY’.

With the thought of slowing down their audience and creating time to reflect in a period of constant rush, SDW make the link to HYPNOSIS THERAPY. The protagonist of the film, a hypnosis therapist with mesmerising eyeballs, takes the viewer through steps of induction going deeper into a spiralling trance world of eclectic future fashion suggestions with every step. The fashion suggestions show a fictive persona representing the viewers repressed inner fashion spirit on an intuitive journey towards unleashed creativity. Just like hypnosis therapists SDW STUDIO aims to plant inspirational alterations and alternative perspectives on fashion in the viewers brain to catalyse change.

In the film the characters are dressed in a mix of SCHUELLER DE WAAL'S collections, communicating that the duo believes in a value of design which remains over time. ‘The Gateway To Fashion’ shows an overview of their work reshuffled into a different aesthetic. The lookbook depicts both worlds of the film. To create new looks from past collections the duo has strictly split apart the two main directions of their collections, classic minimalism vs. quirky, surreal maximalism. The skin of the model reflects actual scenes from the film and becomes a symbol of the connection between real and fiction, the link between both worlds; the gateway.

http://schuellerdewaal.com/

Frida Wannerberger x Pringle of Scotland
*a+w_018

october 018

Pringle of Scotland has long admired the work of illustrator Frida Wannerberger. Each season she illustrates the collection’s key looks, and we were delighted to have her back for Autumn/Winter ‘18 to illustrate our hero pieces in her own unique style.

We were also extremely excited to introduce Frida’s work to our products. Launching later this year as part of the Autumn Winter ‘18 collection, our iconic Pringle lion and distinctive diamond argyle get a fresh perspective from Frida, who hand-painted her version of the famous designs for new and exclusive prints.

Frida has always had an intense love for fashion. She trained at Central Saint Martins and after graduating produced merchandise imagery for the IsabellaBlow: FashionGalore! Exhibition at Somerset House. She was also invited as fashion week illustrator-in-residence at Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio. On top of all her project work Frida is a visiting lecturer on the BA Fashion Illustration Course at London College of Fashion.

Converse x JW Anderson
*Chuck 70 / Felt Collection

october 018

At some point in our youth, we stop playing with toys. But the obsession we have with “things” grows stronger as we get older. We dress as a means of self- expression.

We buy objects – however mundane they might be – because they deliver happiness into our lives. Some collect sneakers. Some collect Pez. And some, like Jonathan Anderson, collect art. Also in the second column of Converse x JW Anderson the designer underlines his obsession with art and craft.

The Converse x JW Anderson Chuck 70 *Felt is the exuberant result of Jonathan Anderson´s life-long obsession. 

Anderson has said, the creative process is a giant patchwork of information and imagery “in search of the new, weird, and wonderful.” As the designer continues his collaboration with Converse, he applies this process to, and his passion for art and craft, to the mainstay in fashion and style, the iconic Chuck.

A brilliant combination of colors inform the design of the Chuck 70 *Felt. Premium felt transforms the Chuck 70 into a colorful, bespoke Capsule Collection for fall + winter 018.

But maybe, after all, the Chuck is art?!

https://converse.com

BRACHMANN
*spring+summer 019

october 018

Struck by the timeless modernity of the design language, the effortless construction, and the balanced colour composition of Frank Lloyd Wright´s building - the Johnson Wax Headquarter, Jennifer Brachmann was convinced to create a minimalist collection inspired by the architecture‘s gentle strengths, filigree contours + minimalist opulence.

BRACHMANN‘s 019 summer collection takes the airy mood and organic elements of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture and transposes them into contemporary fashion. Long and flowing pleats in dresses, blouses, trousers, and coats, resemble the building’s superbly light pillars. The sleeves‘ rounded raglan constructions mirror the arcs in its lucid roof construction.

The dynamically organic structures are translated into falling pleats that open when moved, while vertically structured fabrics like corduroy or subtle pinstripes designs take up the verticality of the spacious room impression.

Translucent fabrics play with the spherical light effects and the dreamy atmosphere in the swimming pool. Different haptical characteristics of the building‘s materials can be retrieved in different fabrics like silk, cotton batiste, cotton, light merino wool, and corduroy. The collection‘s colour palette transposes the buildings colour mood into today ranging from warm gold, beige, rosé, to bronze, while light blue, teal, and white set counterpoints.

credits_

seen Sebastian Donath
styled Charlotte Gindreau
hair & make up Christiane Buchholz
models Maj van der Ven + Louis Walter Poll
glasses Veronika Wildgruber Eyewear
shoes Zign

 https://brachmannofficial.com/

SARDIN
*elliss solomon capsule

september 018

SARDIN is an environmentally innovative e-commerce platform, working with brands that are taking mindful steps towards a cleaner future. SARDIN exercises a pre-order only method of sale and production, which ensures all garments are manufactured responsibly, meeting the exact demands of the market.

"London-based designer Elliss Solomon has joined forces with SARDIN to create an exclusive capsule collection, celebrating feminist heroes of the past."

Founded in 2016, Elliss Solomon established her brand out of a desire to create clothing using environmentally conscious design methods and minimal waste. Solomon maintains that it is vital for her brand to have a low impact on the earth; her designs use natural fabrics, from organic cotton, to hemp and bamboo. With creativity and production processes sharing the same East London space, the Hackney-based designer believes upholding a low carbon footprint is central to her brand’s values. From her print references and tongue-in-cheek placements, to her use of recycled jersey, her namesake brand is underwear and layerwear for today’s smart girl. 

In collaboration with SARDIN, ELLISS has created a range of layerwear paying tribute to activists from the past: Emmeline Lawrence and Millicent Fawcett. The campaigns of the 19th Century, by both Lawrence and Fawcett, for women’s rights are still recognised as significant to this day. Bold black and white screen print of both iconic women feature prominently in this capsule collection for SARDIN.

https://sardin.co

HENRIK VIBSKOV
*l'homme qui mesure les nuages

august 018

The Man Who Measures the Clouds (L'homme qui mesure les nuages) is an art piece by Jan Fabre that Henrik Vibskov came across last summer during his travels in Kanasawa, Japan.

"l'homme qui mesure les nuages."

 The poetic gesture of measuring something unmeasurable inspired him and the team for the a+w 018 collection.

thanks_ The Embassy of Switzerland in Denmark
seen_ Viivi Huuska

http://www.henrikvibskov.com

Concrete Objects x Suicoke
*Lead Resin KAW Sandal

august 018

Concrete Objects, the ongoing project by Jobe Burns and Samuel Ross, the designer behind "A Cold Wall", and Suicoke have joined forces to launch a brutalist-inspired version of the slides KAW, one of the key silhouette of the Japanese brand, featuring mixed materials.

The CONCRETE OBJECTS x SUICOKE sandal utilises a multitude of materials and conforms them with a neutral tone.

 The sole is constructed with robust rubber produced by Vibram with grip lines visible on sides. Designers’ signature and CONCRETE OBJECTS logo is engraved onto the rubber. Premium cow leather and suede are applied to the upper sections of the piece. A steel hoop appears on the left shoe beside nylon fastening strap and logo. Crystal resin tab cast onto steel hoop.

credits_ Chucktherock

https://concreteobjects.com

COS on the horizon
*seen by Marcus Schaffer 

august 018

COS is pleased to present its Autumn Winter 2018 collection in a series by photographer Marcus Schaffer. The images exhibit a modular and innovative collection, featured on models Veronica Manavella, Bakay Diaby, Hannes Gobeyn + Michael Sharp.

sculptured forms + 
textural contrast_

Where natural horizons meet concrete creations, the fibrous natural cottons meet reproportioned garments in technical fabrics. The works Viewfinder and Photobox, designed by Snøhetta as permanent pavilions at the Kivik Art Centre, seem in dialogue with the themes that resonate throughout the Autumn Winter 2018 collection.

seen_ Marcus Schaffer
styled_ Laura Vartiainen
models_ Veronica Manavella, Bakay Diaby, Hannes Gobeyn + Michael Sharp

www.cosstores.com