Telfar Fall/Winter 2017

This season, Telfar mixed up materials, making garments made of strips of different fabric—nylons, knits, denims. “It was fusing garments really,” said Clemens. “There’s a jean mixed with a sweater mixed with a turtleneck mixed with a t-shirt. It’s really a blur of genres of clothing.”

The simplicity is deceptive. The garments looked beautifully made, and, on a practical note, cozy. And the looks were scattered with hints of weirdness: knit knee socks that looked like lederhosen, painterly caps, layers of sleeves. And there were sneakers, made in collaboration with Puma, that are sure to be popular.

The show also had a pointedly political take. As he did last season, Ryan Trecartin composed a poem that served as the soundtrack for the show (the artist recited it over music by Andrew David Ross). It included lines like, “All bodies are illegal;” “It’s ninety degrees in February, it shouldn’t be;” and my personal favorite, “I have instructed Homeland Security to get fucking wasted.”

“It’s time to be political,” said Clemens. “It’s time to pick a side.”

Fashion

office x Budweiser: Bud Life

To celebrate its 142 years on the market, office teamed up with the heritage beer company to shoot an editorial showcasing their product range.

Peep the photos, below.

Lorod pants (blue), Telfar t-shirts, Belstaff boots, Moscot sunglasses

PH5 dress and pants, Telfar t-shirts, Beautiful Ful leather pants, Heron Preston boots, Moscot sunglasses, Lorod top and pants (left to right)

Creative Direction by Simon Rasmussen, Production by Mitchell Conell & Kevin Buitrago, Production Assistants: Caroline Brown & Simone Nystrup-Larsen.

Fashion

Batter Up

December 13, 2018

From inspiring fear and respect to attitude and arousal, the uniform has a potency that few articles of clothing can rival—and LOROD would agree.

For the brand’s Pre-Fall 2019 collection, the label artfully investigates the uniform of female athletes, blending an on-the-field aesthetic with a streetwise sensibility. The line makes reference to one particularly inspiring uniform from the history of female athletics, that worn by the women in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the IRL ladies that inspired the iconic 1992 film, A League Of Their Own. Button closures and stitching details, from the tailored suiting all the way down to the Manolo Blahnik x LOROD Bowling shoes are prominent features within the collection that can be attributed to the badass baseball women of the 1940s.

Text by Kennedy Fairfax

But the homage doesn’t end there—the Rauschenberg-inspired assemblage print also stars female trailblazers including Olympian Wilma Rudolph, who boldly fought for civil and women’s rights throughout the early 1960s. The knitwear, including hand-knit cardigans and sweaters with whipstitch detailing, further demonstrates the aesthetic concept at the heart of the collection: a sentimental and nostalgic nod to the past, reworked into hip and forward-thinking gear for the present.

And boys, don’t worry—you can wear it, too. For the first time in the brand’s history, the collection will also be available in men’s sizing. The collection will hit stores in two different drops, so that customers can get the looks while they're still in season. Play ball.

View some of our favorite pieces from the collection, shot by office favorite Renell Medrano, below.

Photos courtesy of the brand.

Fashion

Dry Clean Only

December 11, 2018

For their Spring/Summer '19 collection, Vaquera took us back to school. Now, they're taking us to the dry cleaners.

The New York City brand and office Issue 08 favorite from designers Patric DiCaprio, Claire Sully and Bryn Taubensee have released the lookbook for their Pre-Fall '19 collection—the label's first pre-season drop—which features 11 head-to-toe looks and accessories. Dubbing this their 'Garment Care' season, the label focused on creating a concise and commercial collection that's more affordable—and digestable—for their younger, perhaps more mainstream customers.

The brand, which has long described itself as a collective that creates "fashion fan fiction while aiming to subvert luxury and tell stories with clothing," often channels archival looks from brands like Margiela and Chanel, reinterpretting them through a decidedly avant-garde, New York lens.

Their garments are usually loud—take their Handmaid's Tale collection from 2017, or the Tiffany & Co. bag and credit card dresses from Fall/Winter '17 and Spring/Summer '18, respectively. But as the brand has continued to grow, their collections have become less so, at least just for the sake of making a statement, and more focused on giving the garments what they actually need to make one on their own.

Of course, DiCaprio, Sully and Taubensee still have their big moments—like last season's finale cap and gown—but overall, the trio seems to have grown up. In doing so, they've started to look more towards the future—as the slightly more commercial nature of Pre-Fall '19 suggests—and undoubtedly figured out the Vaquera stamp, learning how to reimagine vintage pieces from other designers, while still doing what's unapologetically true to them.

Pre-Fall, for example, definitely nods to Margiela and Gaultier—the former through their accessories, and the ways in which they've incorporated (and reformatted) the dry cleaner accents; the latter in the dry cleaner theme, itself. But unlike previous seasons, in which these references might have felt more literal, this season, the comparisons fall only in the liner notes—this collection looks more like Vaquera than anything else. And with each new collection, it's clear the brand understands more what that really means.

View the Pre-Fall '19 lookbook, below.