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Jeremy Scott // Style High Club

The fact that Jeremy Scott was born in Kansas may explain the Oz-like sense of whimsy in his designs. His inspiration: S&M leather culture, mermaids and sea monsters, and even Gilette Venus razors, featuring wild designs incorporating trash bags, dollar bills, and one-legged pants. After living and showing in Paris for several years, Scott returned to the U.S. in 2002 to inject a shot of glittered good humor to the Los Angeles fashion scene. What inspired his 2006 collection !? : King Tut goes surfing. It says pretty much all !

Jean Paul Gaultier / Spring 2007

It's a gift JPG made liberal use of in the new clothes he showed for next spring. With Jane Fonda on the loudspeakers asking, "Are you ready to work out?" the curtains parted to reveal models sweating away on glittery gym machines. But his sport references went beyond jokey visors, wristbands, and tube socks with heels.

Clearly more of a size 20 than the controversial model Size 0, this voluptuous woman proved big is beautiful as she strutted down the runway at Gaultier's 30th anniversary show yesterday during fashion week in Paris.

Hand Made To Measure by ARMANI

This is for real! It is the best way to get all the benefits of a tailor made garment, as well as the signature Giorgio Armani look. You can pick the fabric, lining and buttons, as well as key silhouette decisions, such as type of lapel, position of pocket, option of single- or double-breasted and choice of pleat. All this goes to the database so you can order as many suits as you need without going to the store.

Yoko Devereaux Fall/Winter 06/07

Yoko Devereaux have just published on their site a LookBook for Fall Winter 06/07, and it looks great. Here you are looking at few extracts but there is more...

Yoko Devereaux just got some NEW shoes in for Fall 2006. These lace-up shoes and boots are a completely new design direction for Dr. Martens. Both styles feature a powdered distressed leather (done by hand) with flat cork soles.

Ivan Aguilar Close-up

Yellow & white are the colors this year, and according to Brazilian designer the total one color look is a must.

Related // Ivan Aguilar - Brazil

Sport Couture - Winter 2006

Men would love to be chic but they prefer to feel comfortable. Dirk Bikkembergs has a solution for those that want to look classy, and feel comfortable at the same time: Sport Couture. The tissues are close to what we wear in the gym, cut is chic, and accessories useful (mp3 player can be scratched on your clothes). Beside black, brown, and gray Bikkembergs winter 2006 is yellow and blue.

G-SUS Fashion Soaked In Humor

It has all started in early 1993 when two Sutch designers, Jan Schrijver and Angelique Berkhout, met each other as a free-lancers. One things was clear from the start, they would pose no censorship on design, instead they would make what they want to wear. Their trademark humor and self-mockery is clearly visible.

We particularly like the Gsusod with "Drop Your Pants" ad campaign...
Check G-Sus Online for more info.

American Casualness & European Elegance

It all started when Bernard Gant immigrated to USA from Ukraine in 1914. He reinvented what has become known all over the world as American Style - Casual & Comfortable. Being well dressed without being dressed up was GANT's motto. Today the company is Swedish owned. It is the fusion of those worlds that forms today's Gant.

The brand is distributed worldwide in 55 countries through 181 Gant stores as well as number of selected premium retailers.

Concrete

One of the hidden gems of Soho, indeed of London, Concrete has gone on to establish itself as one of the capital’s leading fashion stores in the four years since its opening. Its success however had not been achieved through the offering of popular fashions. Guided instead by his instinct and an eye for spotting fashion talents, Philip Stephens, owner of a PR agency that shares the same name as the shop, has gone on to not only become a guide to many young and talented designers but also initiated their first commercial window.

Concrete shop (+44 207 434 4546)

Launched during London Fashion Week in February 2001, collections in the store proved so popular, they virtually sold out of everything by the end of it. The unique selling point is in its exclusivity. Concrete either stocks labels unavailable in London or selected pieces that other stores do not have.

Today, the Concrete shop continues to offer an unrivalled range of mens’ and womenswear from new and aspiring designers including – Robert Cary-Williams (London), Wooyoungmi (Paris), Own (Belgium), Ashish (London), Marc Le Bihan (Paris), Anastasia Z (London), Sophia Malig (London), Preen (London) and a very personal favourite of football and style icon, David Beckham, UNCONDITIONAL(London).

Michael Kors - Spring/Summer 2005

A native New Yorker, (he calls Long Island home), Michael Kors studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology. As from last year he is concetrating on his own label and is doing a great job. We love his Spring/Summer collection.