The young Lisbon based fashion label HIBU. creates street wear that transcends gender barriers, combining deconstructive elements with functionality, comfort and a little bit of drama. About his new YOUTH collection 22-years-old HIBU. co-founder and designer Gonçalo Páscoa writes: “YOUTH was born out of melancholia out of the carefree feeling we used to have as kids… That feeling that allowed us to play and imagine beyond what others wanted or thought about us. We had no rules, no boundaries, only freedom to be whatever and whomever we felt like it. This collection is all about that, that freendom. It tries to showcase an effortless, adrogynous and comfortable style by deconstructing basics and having a sporty feel. The movie Lords of Dogtown also played a major role when it comes to esthetics because it sums up all of the above thanks to the coolest skaters that ruled back in the days. YOUTH is a celebration of freedom and style.” You find a behind the scenes video of the lookbook shooting on Vimeo. All pictures (c) HIBU.
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Ryuichi Shiroshita aka Hachi was born in Fukuoka, Japan and has started his Tokyo based fashion label BALMUNG in 2008 at the age of 21, shortly after finishing fashion school. Amongst the customers of the young label are Lady Gaga and the Tokyo based DJ and electro musician Mademoiselle Yulia, the designer has also collaborated with artists such as Terence Koh and his magazine THE international (#8). A beautiful shooting of his latest BALMUNG collection “Tokyo Trash Utopia” (preview below), for which Hachi worked with typical Tokyo trash bags, was released just recently and can be found in its entirety (+video) on the website Tokyo Dandy. I also really like the collection for this years summer season entitled “Sand”, which can be previewed below as well. The full shooting by Wataru Fukaya / Shunt Takano can be found on the label’s website.
Shot by Zak Krevitt, jewelry by Chris Habana and Santiago Casanova.
More pictures on the OAK blog, more Juliana here.
This picture was quite popular on our Facebook page and I like it a lot, so I decided to share it here as well. It was taken by Los Angeles based photographer Catherine Opie for a Rodarte book published in 2011. You can order the publication for a reduced price via Amazon, fore more information about the book check out Artbook.com. I found the picture on the consistently amazing CruiseorbeCruised tumblr.
(c) Catherine Opie / Rodarte
Sir New York is a young high-end-streetwear/ sportswear label with a twist founded by Brooklyn based designer Auston Bjorkman, a graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Bjorkman, who has also studied Patternmaking, Couture Sewing and Fashion Design in San Francisco and used to design fetish and leather gear for Mr. S Leather, describes the label’s latest collection as inspired by “dying glaciers” (<3), while combining print with different techniques and materials such as natural and technical fibers and neoprene.
The pictures of the collection I posted below were shot by photographer and Original Plumbing editor Amos Mac, who has featured the designer in the zine’s fashion issue (#5,) in 2010. The complete shooting can be found on Facebook, for an alternative version focussed on model Shaun Ross and all other Sir NY collections visit the label’s website. All pictures (c) Sir NY / Amos Mac.
GODDESS is a new fashion label founded by designer David Siferd, a graduate from the fashion department of the Kent State University in Ohio, who has also attended the Paris-American Academy. His first collection, simply entitled “Volume 1″, is now available on the label’s website and combines digital prints with shiny materials and suburban chic. The collection comes with a beautiful look book that can be ordered online as well. We’ve interviewed David about his approach as a designer and his idea to create streetwear that breaks with the usual stereotypes. For more pictures of the collection please check out www.goddessclothingco.com.
Since I was very young I knew I wanted to be a fashion designer. Growing up I would always like to draw people and I loved imagining clothes for them to wear. When I was older I moved to college and studied fashion design in Ohio where I grew up, then also studied design in Paris and New York. It had always been my plan to have my own label, and when one of my friends began his own label just after graduating, it really inspired me to start my own label as well.
How would you describe the influences for your first collection? Did you have a certain “traget group” or scene in mind when you designed it?
The main idea for my first collection was essentially to make a number of pieces that I loved, and that were something completely new. I was inspired by my friends and a few people whose style I admire – people who are originals, who always do and wear what they want regardless of society’s standards. When I go shopping for clothes these days, I feel so bored and uninspired by what I see; everything seems to be targeted for a certain specific demographic and I find that a bit patronizing and unsavory. Instead with GODDESS I want to create designs that anyone can feel inspired by and comfortable to wear.
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SADAK is a Berlin based fashion label founded by designer Saša Kovacevic, who has graduated at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee in 2010. Kovacevic was born in Serbia and was a dancer at the National Theater in Belgrad before he decided to dedicate his live to fashion – the label’s name refers to a traditional sleeveless jacket from the Balkan. The designer has just recently finished the shooting for the lookbook for his new collection “Mendeš”, which pays tribute to one of his friends from Bosnia, who lived as a refugee in Amsterdam after having to leave the country as a result of the war. The collection is a mixture between traditional Bosnian costumes and Mendeš’ very own style. Below you find a little preview of the last four SADAK collections (full collections linked in the headlines or on Facebook) – the beautiful spring/summer 2013 looks will soon be distributed via WUT Berlin (Tokyo). All pictures below (c) SADAK by Daniel Samo Bolliger.
boychild is an emerging performance and make-up artist currently residing in LA and soon to be based in NYC, whose work after a show at Art Basel Miami and collaborations with Hood By Air and make-up artist Robin Black has spread quickly on the internet during the last few weeks. My most recent contact with the young artist’s work was Jack Halberstam’s lecture “Going Gaga” (see below), which concludes with a video of boychild re-performing Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” during a show San Francisco – a performance which for Halberstam stands for a new sort of ”wildness” in pop culture that subverts and transforms ideas of gender, race and sexuality. The following collection of photos and videos show some of boychild’s most recent works and collaborations – for more of the beautiful make-up looks please check out boychild @ Instagram (preview below).
For Hood By Air S/S 2013, September 2012
For their amazing fall/winter 2013 collection Marjan Pejoski and Koji Maruyama from the London based fashion label Kokon to Zai (KTZ) have collaborated with artist Rein Vollenga, who has created a new series of his wearable sculptures to round out their futuristic looks. The following pictures of the pieces are taken from the artist’s blog and were shot by photographer Jonas Lindström. For more of the Berlin based artist’s work please check out the blog or his website. We’ve also posted a shooting of his sculptures worn by artist Feral aka Kinky MC in 2011.
The beautiful “Studs” series shot by Nick Knight and styled by Simon Foxton for V Magazine earlier this year is more than just an editorial: The photographer’s fashion website SHOWstudio has not only produced a film that accompanies the pictures, but has also documented the shooting itself and has published interviews with the models. You find all that HERE. Source for the pictures below is the blog of make-up artist Bea Sweet, who was also part of the project. Full credits below the pictures.
