Top Fashion Trends
Forbes’ Profile of TWWW’s Doris Raymond
Check out Hannah Elliott’s fantastic profile of The Way We Wore’s Doris Raymond at Forbes. The story covers how Doris came to be “The Queen of Vintage Fashion,” her treasure hunting skills and the New York showroom.
september catalog video
our september catalog drops tomorrow! here is the behind the scenes video from the shoot in kent in the UK, featuring models dewi dreigen, karolina babczynska and adam wallace, and photographer iain mckell. song is “wolf” by cuddly toys.
The Magnificent Seven
1. Who’s afraid of Katie Eary? The buzzy London designer, inspired by Irvine Welsh’s dark, hallucinatory 1995 novel, ‘‘Marabou Stork Nightmares,’’ has created enormous reptile-print coats, hats with studs resembling teeth and other frightful creations that might haunt your sleep. Go to katieeary.co.uk.
2. The Viennese jewelry designer Florian Ladstaetter looked to the animal kingdom for the debut of his Florian men’s collection. And he had the ‘‘strong alpha male’’ in mind, he says. Translation: cow-horn necklaces, lizard cuffs and python scarves with silk lining. Go to openingceremony
Going Rogue
Rake, a new men’s line of suit separates made to mix and match, fancies as its customer ‘‘a gentleman of rogue habits.’’ The owner, Clive Darby, late of the Savile Row outfitter Kilgour, marries the precision of English tailoring with the louche sexiness of Serge Gainsbourg. ‘‘He didn’t follow some dictated idea of what a suit should be,’’ Darby says. ‘‘He wore it with jeans, with sneakers or with fabulous brogues.’’ The whole collection — reversible waistcoats, wrinkle-resistant jersey jackets that pair well with booze-stained undershirts — targets global gadabouts who travel light. Jackets from about $1,545. Go to rakestyle.com.
Now Toting | J. Panther Luggage
It’s rare for a European luggage designer to look to the United States for manufacturing, but Johnny Diamandis of J. Panther Luggage appreciates the durability and wear of the American valise. “It has a less precious feel and it gets better with age, not worse,” he says. “Basically it’s luxury goods, American style — more rugged and built for life.”
After Diamandis relocated to New York from London to be the creative director of Evisu denim, a restructuring left him jobless. Undeterred, he decided to stick it out and develop the J. Panther Luggage capsule collection, while continuing to work on other projects in London as well as teaching at the Royal College of Art. (He spent two