Last week we met talented creatives and reviewed their portfolio’s at the Blend New Talent Night. We were very excited to meet such passionate and talented people and so we left Pakhuis de Zwijger with a fresh dose of inspiration. Our favorite was definitely last years graduate from… [ Continue reading ]

Number two of a selection of beautiful finds by Anothersomething and Tenue de Nîmes. Enjoy after the click. [ Continue reading ]

I just received the Urban Outfitters Home holiday preview with some lovely stuff to fill your interior shot by Anne Grandin. Along some very camp items like Holga camera’s, a Tru-Square rock tumbler and a Bob Ross painting kit there are some nice little presents like… [ Continue reading ]

I very much like this classic american style — The pure Scottish cashmere cardigan sweater jacket by Brooks Brothers is really a classic! Mother-of-pearl buttons and button cuff with grosgrain on sleeve and placket. Our need to have for this autumn…… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

It need not be reiterated that over the past few years we've seen an unprecedented number of collaborative projects between pairs or trios of brands that may or may not be from the same industry. Major efforts of this variety have been embraced by both massive corporations (Target has been doing it for years and now plans to work with Rodarte for a seasonal collection; Pepsi famously teamed up with A Bathing Ape; Jil Sander's +J line for Uniqlo is in stores now) and smaller ones (Monocle has worked with countless people, from Comme des Garçons to Porter; practically every issue of Arkitip, a tiny independent Southern California art publication, features a collaboration with folks like Mike Mills and Peter Saville).

This trend isn't unusual per se, however: All sorts of companies have partnered with non-employees and separate businesses for ages, but for the most part, such pairings haven't been publicized or used as marketing ploys. So why is it that we can no longer enter a store as ubiquitous as the Gap or J. Crew and not catch sight of a tag that features both the shop's name and an affiliate's? Simple: Sustaining a brand's image and reputation is harder than ever due to cheap forms of marketing and the impact of the Internet today; additionally, the "two is better than one" mindset has convinced many clothiers, luggage manufacturers, cobblers, liquor producers, and so on to shack up with competitors with equal ambition and creativity or companies outside of their field who can spread whatever product they make in conjunction to their loyalists. Belvedere may not be the choice vodka of hipsters, but if Parisian graffiti artist and restaurant and hotel owner André slaps his Mr. A. character on their bottles, it will instantly become a nightclub hit.

The following is a rundown of some of our favorite collaborations as of late in no particular order. [ Continue reading ]

Olympia Le-Tan grew up in house where the walls were covered in beautiful books. Inspired by the amazing first edition covers of her favorite classics like The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Catcher in The Rye, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Winner Take Nothing, Moby Dick amongst… [ Continue reading ]

Finally – the collaboration of Nalden & Tenue de Nîmes is online. As Nalden said before, purple is the new black (we would say brown…) so this lovely cotton shirt comes in a deep purple, with magenta buttons and branding, and is now available at… [ Continue reading ]

Kimberly Lloyd just emailed us to say they released the first Qompendium Print Publication. Qompendium is an evolving and ever-changing platform for philosophy, art, culture and science, represented by a series of print publications: magazines, books and monographs. Furthermore, it is enriched by a real gallery… [ Continue reading ]

Coute Que Coute shared this lovely lookbook from Grounded Ltd – called White Line. A beautiful series of pictures, traveling thru the wilderness with fantastic vintage inspired garments… And be sure you’ll check their previous collections as well since they all have this raw and pure… [ Continue reading ]

One of our favorite brands will hit the road again: Clemens en August is starting the fall/winter ’09 tour and will visit Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Munich, Tokyo and Zurich. The only way to get your hands on this beautiful collection is by visiting… [ Continue reading ]

Lovely pictures from Ukraine based photographer Valeria Lazareva for Dresscode september 2009. Be sure you’ll check her portfolio – she did some amazing work…… [ Continue reading ]

Today the new Fantastic Man, Dazed & Confused and Monocle hit the news stands… Fantastic Man comes with articles on Ewan McGregor, Hans Rosling, Peter Philips, Hamish Bowles and is introducing its new sister: The Gentlewoman. We’re very curious to that one!… [ Continue reading ]

The next vintage for the next era: Anachronorm is a Japanese label with a fantastic collection of garments. Every single collection is build upon one fictitious person. For instance this jacket was from Jack, a man with style, who loved his Honda CB77 Super Hawk (which is definitely… [ Continue reading ]

Our all favorite brand SNS Herning just opened their online shop… (Thank you hyrcollective for mentioning)… [ Continue reading ]

Kostas Murkudis is collaborating with flip*flop for the spring and summer of 2010. He got me curious with this image…… [ Continue reading ]

‘Like in a Movie’ is the introduction of the fall & winter ’09 collection by Copenhagen based brand YDE. With this ‘Ole Yde continues his dream of attempting to bring back the gentle, strong and above all elegant woman.’… [ Continue reading ]

Known for their famous driving shoes Car Shoe is presenting this new project called Monogram cs 1.0. I like the style, the classic runner, and the thing that I can choose my own colour, material — including leather and suede — and lettering. The collection was… [ Continue reading ]

Beautiful photography by Atlanta Rasher (Thank you Bas) Above Fashion Forward for Dazed & Confused and Mother and jack for Kid’s wear. [ Continue reading ]

Just got this wonderful update of Vanishing Elephant. A fine mix of great ingredients: merino wool, linen woven and waxed cottons and Italian lambs leather in natural earth tones all comes back in the classic and stylefull spring ’10 collection. “The woods are never solitary – they are… [ Continue reading ]

Lately I’ve had some doubts about buying or not buying the book of the Sartorialist – since it’s an online thing. But yesterday I bought one. Why? Because Scott Schuman changed the way we look, changed fashion, changed photography and finally changed the web and inspired so many… [ Continue reading ]

Onitsuka Tiger is celebrating its 60th anniversary with the publication Made of Japan by the editors of Zoo Magazine. Made of Japan features more than 30 iconic personalities, including Chiharu Shiota, Naomi Yotsumoto, Yusuke Iseya, Hirofumi Kurino, Thomas Demand, and former star athletes Dave Cowens and… [ Continue reading ]

Fred Bschaden from Treibstoff, the german agent for Filson, Red Wing Shoes, Nigel Cabourn a.o. shared a series of images with us from his Filson factory visit last year... And of course, we are more than happy to share it with the rest of the world. More images after the click > [ Continue reading ]

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…… [ Continue reading ]