In November last year Tenue de Nîmes visited the Grenson factory in Rushden, Northamptonshire to salute our first Grenson x Tenue de Nîmes shoe. We developed a black Tenue de Nîmes interpretation of the Grenson classic: the Fred. The shoe is a limited edition high top brogue with a triple layer -blue tone- leather sole. Tenue de Nîmes was amazed by all the stages of English craftsmanship to finally come together in this characteristic shoe. That is why we decided to do a video about the factory and the nearly 200 pit stops that our shoe had to make before it got delivered in Amsterdam. The factory images and report will be published in Journal de Nîmes Nº5, in July 2010.
Louis Vuitton changed their communication from showing old and erstwhile world leaders on their way down the road into telling the story of the high-end craftsman and the beauty of the details.
I saw the sneak preview of the images, shot by Desiree Dolron, a few months ago and I instantly fell in love with the brand.
Above image is the sewing of the leather with a beeswax thread to protect the stitchings overtime. Louis Vuitton: The sum of details beautifully captured by Desiree Dolron! For more images Read the rest of this entry »
Started by Brenna Boyce and Daniel Lewis Brooklyn Tailors are beautiful handmade and bespoke garments made by skilled craftsman. It’s lovely to see these kind of companies opening their online shop in Etsy and moving from hard to get into something very reachable…
1 shoe last, 3 styles and 5 colour combinations: T-MICHAEL will launch it’s first shoe collection tomorrow in Ridehuset, Oslo, accompanied with some beautiful tunes by Tord Gustavsen. Designed at Skostredet and hand finished in Portugal the shoe will come in vegetable tanned full grain leather, blake construction and a curvy shoe last. (picture by Bent René Synnevåg)
Moma, the craftsmen from Italy with their beautiful range of shoes, finally shared a little piece of their secrets with the world. It was always hard to get a clear view on what they do, and how they do it, but their agency Pil Associati together with Leandro Manuel Emede made a beautiful 8,5 minute short were we can see the real craftsmanship behind Moma. Enjoy MOMA – Midnight Over My Actions with some lovely images, vintage machinery and fine detailing…
Yujin Tsumuraya from the leather factory Roberu in Japan shared some fantastic handmade leather photo cases and accessories with us. I remember my father used to have his camera in this kind of hard leather cases ages ago and I was looking for them for quit some time now… Above the Olumpus Pen E-P1 holder.
Check this extremely beautiful heavy weight balls by the Lineaus Athletic Company. Made out of 5 oz. full grain baseball glove cow hide, double locked-stitched with 3 cords of polyester thread they come in different sizes and weights. Each custom-made and numbered… excellent!
Wow, remember Temple Bags6 months ago, the blogger page, and Steve Opperman, the man behind it making all the bags by hand, all in single pieces.
It transformed into a real collection and an online shop. Thankfully the bags are still made of re-purposed materials and they still look great!
Two of our favorite classic bike builders. One from the east coast and one from the west cast of the US. Bilenky Cycle Works, a custom bike builder with a rich history which goes back to 1983. And Jitenska Studio, with suburb hand made frames and the same define eye for detailing and quality.
Last month h(y)r collective changed it’s name and focus to INVENTORY, a curation of Ideas in Product, Craft & Culture. The online magazine became an off-line magazine which will be published in the coming days. Anothersomething got a sneak preview on the first proofs from the press.
Ryan explains: Volume 01 Number Fall—Winter 2009 features some of our favorite brands and people in menswear. With a focus on the stories behind the brands and products, we take stock whats important to us. Nigel Cabourn, Engineered Garments, Mister Freedom and Yuketen are featured in large beautiful spreads with in-depth interviews. Beautiful photography by Ken Tisuthiwongse, James Pearson-Howes and Ye Rin Mok graces the pages of our features. Editorial focus includes the Nom de Guerre FW09 collection, a look at the best parkas in the market and a London shoot titled “Disparity”.
We also featured our first 4 collaborations resulting in Inventory Items 001 – 005: Collaborations include Gitman Bros., Inverallan, Mark McNairy and Alexander Olch.
The magazine is printed in Canada, 5,000 copies, 2 covers – available in our online shop, Inventory Stockroom as well as select menswear and magazine shops around the world.
We can’t wait to see the result of this beautiful work by Ryan Willms, Owen Parrott and Simon Roe, under the art direction of Chris Allen.
Number one will be available at Anothershop and Tenue de Nîmes soon… stay tuned…
PS. Ryan lift a tip of the veil on the second issue – they’re heading to Japan to work on three articles with Beams, White Mountaineering and The Real McCoy’s.
A lazy sunday afternoon, browsing thru my found and emailed links of the past week came, I across this one. I’m so much enjoying almost everything in the Japanese online shop Kirpputori (the Finnish word for flea market ). Beautiful felt animals, birch wood boxes and envelopes and lovely table ware, all antique and handcrafted goods from Finland.
Just came across this beautiful, three centuries old brandy company. Edelbrand Stuaffenberg is a traditional spirit from Germany made from only the finest, ripest handpicked Franconian cherries, the extremely rare find ‘Zibärtleand’ plums and Williams pears.
The wild plum is our favorite: ‘Painstakingly procured and produced in a particularly limited edition, its wild fruit is an extremely rare find. ‘Zibärtle’ are no bigger than a gumball and they have proportionately large seeds, making their fruity flesh all the more precious. Because of their low sugar content, the mouth puckers when devouring these unusually succulent little fruits. Hand-picked locally, these redish-violet organic spheres embody the rambunctious spirit of upper Swabia and the Black Forrest.’ Only a very limited number of bottles is still available of this one…
Last monday we were pleased welcoming Mr Nigel Cabourn himself. Inspired and excited we finished the day knowing he started his business with today’s biggest british designer as his London Agent, pleased with an invite to his little castle in the United Kingdom, packed with stories and information on every single garment and extremely curious on his collection vintage pieces which counts more than 4000! In the first issue of Journal de Nîmes 2010 we will do a big story on this inspiring character. More soon!
Godspeed 45/06 is a quarterly collection of photographs documenting the craftsmanship of bike builders, their work, and their workspaces. The premier issue features Keino Sasaki, White Knights in the House of Kolor, Walt Siegl, and the crew over at Works. This hardcover document with 158 pages filled with beautifully documented bikers is independently photographed, designed, and published by one man. It inspired us again to continue our ideas around ‘Another Publication’. Stay tuned for that one… Shared by A Time To Get.
Our favorite shoemaker got a new website and to celebrate this Michael Rollig, the founder of Saint Crispin’s – the Austrian company who is making one of the most exclusive and finest bespoke shoes in the world – shares a little history with Anothersomething in this special feature. Read the rest of this entry »
My find of today: A rare vintage Montblanc dark chocolate brown Saffiano leather wallet from the late 30s. Specially made for the Montblanc Meisterstuck 146… Lovely!
La Cordonnerie Anglaise created this beautiful shoe care set. A heavy leather apron backed with dark brown suede comes with 6 wooden brushes. Who doesn’t need a proper shoe cleaning kit? Available at The Bureau, Belfast and maybe soon at Tenue de Nîmes…
Incredible beautiful cycle bags by Guu-Watanabe. This Japanese handcrafted custom made bags are made out of water repellent 22.3oz cotton duck with cowhide. The bags are made after each custom order and numbered from 0 to 999. Love them…
A small business-card sized booklet with 30 cards. These small cards can be taken out and put anywhere someone might find them. In a book in the library or a bookstore, in a bag of an unknown passenger, in the mailbox of your neighbour.
The friendly association is a random circulating series of images we make for carefully selected brands. It’s not advertising, but a support for brands and projects. The images are specially made for Anothersomething to make the brand part of our concept.
In return they support Anothersomething.
Contact me for details on the friendly association.
