A Human-Animal Connection: Collina Strada x Vans

This collaboration with Vans might be the most personal for Creative Director and Founder of Collina Strada, Hillary Taymour. Taymour grew up outside. When she wasn't horseback riding, she was surfing, or skating. The Vans slip-on reminded her of a house shoe for outside. The design was easy, stylish, the most practical choice of shoe. To imbue the classic collection with the fun Collina spirit, Taymour had everyone in the studio draw their "dream house." The doodles were then used as prints for the collaboration. “I grew up in Southern California and I’ve been wearing Vans my whole life,” said Hillary. “I wore slip-ons skateboarding on the pier and to the barn before putting on my boots, so it is such an hour to get to create a collection with the brand.”

The Vans x Collina Strada collection will be available globally beginning February 10, 2023 at Collinastrada.com, Vans.com, select Vans retail stores worldwide. The Old Skool Vibram DX in the sweet lilac colorway is exclusive to Vans retail locations, Vans.com, Collinastrada.com and SSENSE.

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OTTONYMOUS

October 14, 2024

Ottolinger's SS25 collection emerged through the jaws of a giant shark, with the show's pulse driven by the debut soundtrack from WENCH, a new project by ARCA and Shayne Oliver.

Embracing a distinctly avant-garde aquatic sensibility, designers Christa Bösch and Cosima Gadient also debuted OTTONYMOUS, an eyewear collection marking the first in an ongoing collaboration with the underground heavyweight and Anonymous.club designer. Each model embodied "the shark drifting between cities... dorsal fin splitting the world like an oyster," with visors borrowing their slick, monochromatic shapes from previous Shayne Oliver Group designs and bombshell swimwear rendered in bold Ottolinger colorways, captured here by photographer Jacqueline Landvik.

Photography by Jacqueline Landvik, courtesy of Ottolinger.

"In the small hours when the world sleeps, it is a voice message sent from an empty airport. Waking to the grainy dawn light and the tinted window of a 4 a.m. taxi, I swim through an aquarium of skyscrapers. Mine is a body in transit, intimately dressed in yesterday's party and tomorrow's new beginnings; never too early or too late. From chrome meeting rooms to remote beaches, I am timeless and beyond time, diving neoprene into the darkness of a deep blue sea, surfacing among the turquoise whirlpools and discarded cocktail umbrellas of an infinity pool."

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Speidi Enters ASLAN World

"ADAPT OR DIE" T available here. ASLAN World SS25 will be available at Dover Street Market, H.LORENZO, Slam Jam, and aslan.world in January.

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Paris Louboutins With David LaChapelle

October 10, 2024

One of the most memorable of presentations in Paris at the end of the fashion season was, unsurprisingly, at the hands of iconic photographer, director, artist and overall creative genius David LaChapelle. Merging his “kitsch pop surrealism” with the SS25 collection by the French footwear house Christian Louboutin, choreography by Blanca Li, live music by LP and a synchronized performance by the French Olympic artistic swimming team — plus some rather mentionable pole dancing by topless “firefighters” — the theatrical display was matched only by a scene of LaChapelle, Louboutin and Li all jumping into the pool and dancing about fully clothed, if not moderately intoxicated. Fashion week, especially in Paris, can feel way too serious and self conscious. This presentation was definitely giving a more friends-and-family vibe: campy, fun and unpretentious.