Black Sun and 400 pleats

NICOLAS ANDREAS TARALIS
Spring Summer 2011

The black Sun worshiping tribes of long forgotten times
The 400 pleats of the silk
The 1000 holes in leather
The dark subcultures of the last Europa kiss

Thomas Engel Hart S/S 11 - Berlin Fashion Week

Thomas Engel Hart showed his Spring Summer 2011 collection as a guest of Berlin Fashion Week, initiated by IMG and Mercedes. Engel Hart has never really been a fan of catwalk show, he always favored static presentation in the past, but he might change his mind after this one. The look is back to the label's historic DNA, rock'n'roll ( and you should imagine this said with the original mix of New York and South Carolina 's accent that probably only Engel Hart has ).
Early rock influences it is for next summer, a mood close to the 60's, with surfing touch in the all over prints, and mods feel with the small collar shirt in bicolor fabrics or with savant patch combinations on just short enough straight trousers and combat-shaped shorts. First time modeling Alexander opened and closed the show ,and already seeing him on Hedi Slimane's diary blog predicts it's the beginning for this strong look German boy, along with a perfectly fitting casting of clean but strong slicked haired men making this probably the most interesting show of the whole Berlin Fashion Week. One would die for most of the shirts of the collections and the cut out drill or denim jackets promise to be on every one's wanted list. But that's not all, as full of surprises as Engel Hart can be, it had to be be something more and the introduction of a first time ever womenswear capsule with 3 looks in the show consisting of shirt dresses, cut out sleeveless coats or vinyl geometrical skirts opened a whole lot of possibilities for the Paris based American designer. Now we just can't wait to see more ....

Thomas Engel Hart
Spring Summer 2011
Berlin Fashion Week

Dries Van Noten - Spring Summer 2011

Dries Van Noten, once again proved his talent for dressing men. away from his usual ethnic inspirations. Van Noten took us for a little time travel into the 70s with chic mods in slightly flair trousers, with pretty skins in chloryne denim jeans and elegant bomber jackets, or with  multicolor ink stained perfect white shirts. Showed in a quite trash location on the paris docks with a velvet underground loop for soundtrack and plenty of beer oferred, the belgian master mixed music subcultures influences with utilitary fashion, opening new perspective for his menswear line, and later on backstage the word was that a menswear dedicate paris shop is the on the way, opening is still secret location after the summer. almost makes us want the summer to be over soon.

photos from gq.com

Work To Work - Sansovino 6 by Edward Buchanan - Mens Capsule collection S/S 11

Under the artistic direction of Edward Buchanan, SANSOVINO 6, a knitwear label based and produced in Milan intra-muros, introduces a first time men's capsule collection for Spring Summer 2011.
Following Sansovino 6's DNA of essential knitwear, Buchanan translates denim into knitwear under a work wear inspiration, creating a collection of cotton knit treated as denim, washed in indigo, nero, cream or heather greys. It's more than a collection, it's a statement and as some of us are still waiting for the right word to call these denim knits, I'll simply call it the Sansovino 6 !
This capsule collection opens new areas for knitwear and the women's collection is yet to come for more surprises in September.

SANSOVINO 6
by
Edward Buchanan

Men's Capsule collection
Spring Summer 2011