Monday, January 11, 2010
High Top Shoes
Monday, December 07, 2009
Masters of the Universe!
German illustrator/designer Adrian Riemann redesigned 16 famous characters from Masters of the Universe. The redesigned characters are dressed up in the coolest street labels and look like they are ready to crash a party and I sure as hell want to be there!
He-Man wears: Jacket - Dior Homme, Jeans - April 77, Shoes - Pierre Hardy
Skeletor wears: Hoody - Loopwheeler, Jeans - Cheap Monday, Shoes - YSL
Man-At-Arms wears: Windbreaker - Nike, Jeans - Flat Head, Shoes - Common Projects
Evil-Lyn wears: Cardigan & Boots - Zara, Shirt - Custom, Pants - American Apparel
Roboto wears: Shirt - Flat Head, Jeans - Iron Heart, Shoes - Common Projects
Trap Jaw wears: Top - American Apparel, Jeans - April 77, Shoes - Vans
She-Ra wears: Jacket & Top - H&M, Jeans - April 77, Shoes - Vintage
Tri-Clops wears: Jacket & Top - Custom, Jeans - Cheap Monday, Shoes - Nike
Beast Man wears: T-Shirt - Surface 2 Air, Jeans - Acne, Shoes - RAF Simons
Modulok wears: Glasses - Ray Ban, Jeans - Imperial Denim, Watch - Nixon, Shoes - Creative Recreation
Magestra wears: Body & Pants - American Apparel, Skirt - Vintage, Shoes - Matt Bernson
Stratos wears: Glasses & T-Shirt - American Apparel, Jeans - Dior Homme, Shoes - F-Troupe
Mekaneck wears: Jacket - Dior Homme, T-Shirt - Trinitas, Jeans - Acne, Shoes - RAF Simons
Webstor wears: Shirt & Jeans - A.P.C., Shoes - YSL
Teela wears: Dress - Zara, Stockings - H&M, Shoes - Stella McCartney
Stratos wears: Jacket - Wood Wood, Watch - Nixon, Jeans - A.P.C., Shoes - Surface 2 Air
Visit Adrian Riemann's portfolio for more of his works.
He-Man wears: Jacket - Dior Homme, Jeans - April 77, Shoes - Pierre Hardy
Skeletor wears: Hoody - Loopwheeler, Jeans - Cheap Monday, Shoes - YSL
Man-At-Arms wears: Windbreaker - Nike, Jeans - Flat Head, Shoes - Common Projects
Evil-Lyn wears: Cardigan & Boots - Zara, Shirt - Custom, Pants - American Apparel
Roboto wears: Shirt - Flat Head, Jeans - Iron Heart, Shoes - Common Projects
Trap Jaw wears: Top - American Apparel, Jeans - April 77, Shoes - Vans
She-Ra wears: Jacket & Top - H&M, Jeans - April 77, Shoes - Vintage
Tri-Clops wears: Jacket & Top - Custom, Jeans - Cheap Monday, Shoes - Nike
Beast Man wears: T-Shirt - Surface 2 Air, Jeans - Acne, Shoes - RAF Simons
Modulok wears: Glasses - Ray Ban, Jeans - Imperial Denim, Watch - Nixon, Shoes - Creative Recreation
Magestra wears: Body & Pants - American Apparel, Skirt - Vintage, Shoes - Matt Bernson
Stratos wears: Glasses & T-Shirt - American Apparel, Jeans - Dior Homme, Shoes - F-Troupe
Mekaneck wears: Jacket - Dior Homme, T-Shirt - Trinitas, Jeans - Acne, Shoes - RAF Simons
Webstor wears: Shirt & Jeans - A.P.C., Shoes - YSL
Teela wears: Dress - Zara, Stockings - H&M, Shoes - Stella McCartney
Stratos wears: Jacket - Wood Wood, Watch - Nixon, Jeans - A.P.C., Shoes - Surface 2 Air
Visit Adrian Riemann's portfolio for more of his works.
Labels: A.P.C., Acne, April 77, Cheap Mondays, Common Projects, Dior Homme, Flat Head, He-man, Iron Heart, Nike, Surface 2 Air, YSL, Zara
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Ok im really bored
Burberry Prorsum
YSL
Ann Demeulemeester
Dolce & Gabbana
Dior Homme
Kris Van Assche
YSL
Ann Demeulemeester
Dolce & Gabbana
Dior Homme
Kris Van Assche
Labels: Ann Demeulemeester, Burberry, Dior Homme, Dolce, Gabbana, Kris Van Assche, Prorsum, YSL
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Slimane Talking to LVMH About Possible Return
PARIS — Could Hedi Slimane end up back at LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton?The men’s wear star, who parted with Dior Homme last March, has renewed talks with LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault about the launch of a Hedi Slimane fashion house, industry sources said.
The likelihood of a deal could not immediately be learned. LVMH declined comment on Monday and Slimane could not be reached.
However, sources described the recent talks as serious, underscoring that the designer has maintained excellent relations with the luxury titan.
One of Paris’ biggest fashion stars, Slimane surprised the industry with his exit from Dior Homme, which under his creative tenure brought skinny tailoring and rock ’n’ roll style back to the forefront of fashion, and electrified men’s fashion week here.
Slimane said he walked away from Dior “freely” after failing to reach an agreement about a Dior-backed Hedi Slimane house. Ownership of the Slimane brand name and control rights were said to be among the contentious issues during the initial talks.
But Slimane left the door open to reconciliation, posting a letter on his Web site shortly after exiting Dior Homme thanking Arnault for trusting him with the project. “I hope he will understand my position and decision, if not now, then hopefully with some time,” Slimane wrote.
While he has recently channeled his energies into his burgeoning career as an artist and photographer, Slimane is said to be eager to get back into the fashion game with an independent label.
For his part, Arnault is said to want to lure Slimane back into his stable of fashion stars, prizing the 39-year-old’s design prowess and wide-screen brand vision.
An art history graduate from the Ecole du Louvre, Slimane burst onto the fashion scene in the late ‘90s as the men’s wear creative director at YSL, earning standing ovations for collections that were seductively androgynous and crackling with modern energy.
In 2000, he resigned from YSL and accepted a job offer from Arnault, showing his first Dior Homme collection in January 2001, injecting the brand with buzz and a strong youth appeal.
Since then, many retailers have clamored for a Slimane women’s line, since he already enjoyed a cult female following, having dressed the likes of Madonna, Charlotte Rampling, Linda Evangelista and Nicole Kidman.
Article by Miles Socha
Labels: Dior Homme, Fashion, Hedi, News
Monday, April 09, 2007
Goodbye Skinny.
Paris, 2007, March 29 - The world's most influential men's designer has just said goodbye to his job.
Almost year after rumors first spread that Hedi Slimane and the management at Christian Dior were at loggerheads, the fashion house announced Thursday that he was being replaced by Kris Van Assche. "Christian Dior Couture appoints Kris Van Assche as Artistic Director of Dior Homme for the Ready-to-Wear and Accessories collections," read a press release from the house, which made no mention whatsoever of Slimane. The appointment marks a pretty meteoric rise for Van Assche, a former of assistant to Slimane at both Yves Saint Laurent and Dior Homme. Europe's most important fashion college, the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts. After quitting Dior Homme in 2005, Van Assche launched his own label, garnering positive reviews and commercial attention. In his own signature collections, Van Assche has carved out a reputation for his canny mingling of formal tailoring - snug, narrow lapel wool jackets - with sportswear broad stripe sweat pants, and an ability to update accessories with sophistication, like his savvy boots made of broken wingtip patterns. "Christian Dior is the absolute image of couture. I am very pleased to be joining the house where the legacy and the savoir faire of the ateliers are unique. These are the strengths that will be the bases of my work," Van Assche said in the statement. Added Sidney Toledano, President and CEO of Christian Dior Couture, the company that controls the fashion house but not the Dior perfume business: "I am pleased to announce the appointment of Kris Van Assche who will continue the development of Dior Homme with the high-quality team that we already have in place." Van Assche joins Dior with a reputation for a finely developed sense of staging, best seen this January at Pitti, the Florentine fair that is the world's most important men's wear trade show, where his installation "Desire," did not feature not a single item of clothing. Instead, guests encountered a Dadaist array of 100 charming hats, for men and women, and a century of handkerchiefs hung from the beams of what has to be Europe's most beautiful straw barn Le Pagliere. "The theme is elegance really. My fashion is about people taking that bit of time to look their best, a moment that should grace each day," explained the Belgium designer, attired for that opening in one of his own green woolen military coats. Slimane did not return calls for comment. However, todays announcement from Dior brings to an end a long, rumor-filled melodrama ignited by Slimane's desire to launch his own label and branch into women's fashion. Dior and Slimane repeatedly tried to reach an agreement, but executives were understood to have balked at Slimane's estimation of his name value and his insistence on retaining majority control of any joint venture. In recent years, LVMH, the giant luxury conglomerate controlled by Christian Dior Couture's key shareholder Bernard Arnault, has made any acquisition or investment in luxury labels conditional on owing or gaining majority control in the medium-term. In-fighting between Dior and Slimane first became public nine months ago during the July 2006 men's season in Paris, when Slimane refused to pose beside Arnault and CEO Toledano at a backstage photo-op. Slimane leaves Dior with the well-earned reputation as the single most influential men's designer this century, the most copied of his peers and the only one to achieve the status of a rock star. No wonder Mick Jagger, Elton John, Baz Luhrmann and Karl Lagerfeld sat front in July to see the Spring/Summer 2007 collection they recognize star quality when they see it. Whatever happens next, Slimane's super lithe silhouette, ability to meld formal attire with street credibility, brilliant use of minimalist market techniques, epic theatrical shows and sense of class with a modernist twist mark him out as an all time great men's designer. Time will tell whether he becomes a great talent in women's fashion, too.
Article by Godfrey Deeny
Almost year after rumors first spread that Hedi Slimane and the management at Christian Dior were at loggerheads, the fashion house announced Thursday that he was being replaced by Kris Van Assche. "Christian Dior Couture appoints Kris Van Assche as Artistic Director of Dior Homme for the Ready-to-Wear and Accessories collections," read a press release from the house, which made no mention whatsoever of Slimane. The appointment marks a pretty meteoric rise for Van Assche, a former of assistant to Slimane at both Yves Saint Laurent and Dior Homme. Europe's most important fashion college, the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts. After quitting Dior Homme in 2005, Van Assche launched his own label, garnering positive reviews and commercial attention. In his own signature collections, Van Assche has carved out a reputation for his canny mingling of formal tailoring - snug, narrow lapel wool jackets - with sportswear broad stripe sweat pants, and an ability to update accessories with sophistication, like his savvy boots made of broken wingtip patterns. "Christian Dior is the absolute image of couture. I am very pleased to be joining the house where the legacy and the savoir faire of the ateliers are unique. These are the strengths that will be the bases of my work," Van Assche said in the statement. Added Sidney Toledano, President and CEO of Christian Dior Couture, the company that controls the fashion house but not the Dior perfume business: "I am pleased to announce the appointment of Kris Van Assche who will continue the development of Dior Homme with the high-quality team that we already have in place." Van Assche joins Dior with a reputation for a finely developed sense of staging, best seen this January at Pitti, the Florentine fair that is the world's most important men's wear trade show, where his installation "Desire," did not feature not a single item of clothing. Instead, guests encountered a Dadaist array of 100 charming hats, for men and women, and a century of handkerchiefs hung from the beams of what has to be Europe's most beautiful straw barn Le Pagliere. "The theme is elegance really. My fashion is about people taking that bit of time to look their best, a moment that should grace each day," explained the Belgium designer, attired for that opening in one of his own green woolen military coats. Slimane did not return calls for comment. However, todays announcement from Dior brings to an end a long, rumor-filled melodrama ignited by Slimane's desire to launch his own label and branch into women's fashion. Dior and Slimane repeatedly tried to reach an agreement, but executives were understood to have balked at Slimane's estimation of his name value and his insistence on retaining majority control of any joint venture. In recent years, LVMH, the giant luxury conglomerate controlled by Christian Dior Couture's key shareholder Bernard Arnault, has made any acquisition or investment in luxury labels conditional on owing or gaining majority control in the medium-term. In-fighting between Dior and Slimane first became public nine months ago during the July 2006 men's season in Paris, when Slimane refused to pose beside Arnault and CEO Toledano at a backstage photo-op. Slimane leaves Dior with the well-earned reputation as the single most influential men's designer this century, the most copied of his peers and the only one to achieve the status of a rock star. No wonder Mick Jagger, Elton John, Baz Luhrmann and Karl Lagerfeld sat front in July to see the Spring/Summer 2007 collection they recognize star quality when they see it. Whatever happens next, Slimane's super lithe silhouette, ability to meld formal attire with street credibility, brilliant use of minimalist market techniques, epic theatrical shows and sense of class with a modernist twist mark him out as an all time great men's designer. Time will tell whether he becomes a great talent in women's fashion, too. Article by Godfrey Deeny
Labels: Dior Homme, Hedi, Kris Van Assche, Slimane
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Give me that wallet now!
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Hedi Slimane for Dior Homme
With an Italian mother, Tunisian father, and Brazilian grandmother, Hedi Slimane embodies the new global fashion. Here Charla Carter chats with the man who could do for menswear what Yves Saint Laurent did for women 40 years ago. Anybody familiar with Paris fashion is probably aware of the game of musical chairs being played in the women's arena: Will Nicolas Ghesquière grab Gucci? Olivier Theyskens go to Givenchy? Who's jockeying for Jil Sander?
Until now, the menswear realm had generally been spared all that frenzied speculation. But during the fall/winter mens' shows in late January, all Paris was abuzz. In what critics loved to call a "Gladiator"-style clash, Gucci's Tom Ford presented his first men's collection for Yves Saint Laurent, and Hedi Slimane (shown, right), who'd occupied Ford's chair at YSL until July, showed his first clothing line under the Dior Homme label the next day. Fuel sloshed onto the flames when front-row-watchers noted that Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé attended Slimane's Dior debut, but were conspicuously absent from Ford's show for YSL -- the house the pair co-founded.
The votes are now tallied, and it's pretty much ... a tie. The consensus seems to be that there's room in the fashion universe for both Kings of Cool, that Ford's particular brand of sleek, sexy style can easily coexist in a man's closet alongside Slimane's equally erotic, edgy clothes (shown, below). As for all the media brouhaha, Hedi Slimane couldn't care less. As he emphasizes in the following interview with eLUXURY's Paris-based fashion and beauty editor, Charla Carter, his real concern is "to recreate the culture of the Dior label." And, who knows? Maybe in the process, this pale 32-year-old dressed in loose-hipped jeans, rhinestone belt, and slim black coat who just narrowly escaped becoming a political journalist may achieve his ultimate goal -- that of "completely re-defining men's fashion."
C.C. - In your four years at YSL, you totally revamped its nondescript menswear image by producing luxuriously tailored clothes with a subversive twist that many called "androgynous." Now that you're at Dior, will you be designing any differently?
H.S. - It would be dishonest for me to do "a look of the season" or a particular style under the pretext that I've changed fashion houses. It's just not me. I don't like formulas; my approach to design is purely intuitive. What I designed for YSL was a little more raw; Dior Homme may be more romantic -- more poetic, perhaps. As for my clothes being branded "feminine," I think it's all a state of mind. Who cares whether a guy or a girl wears the garments? This masculine/feminine dialectic doesn't interest me -- in my head, we're all a little bit of both.
C.C. - Leaving one illustrious French couture house for another -- was the transition difficult?
H.S. - Not really. Of course, Yves Saint laurent has a cachet that's hard to beat; a rich history. But historically, the two houses are linked -- don't forget, Yves Saint Laurent started out at Christian Dior. It was a logical transition for me.
C.C. - Was the project at all daunting?
H.S. This Dior project is fabulous! The challenge for me is to try new things, to push the boundaries. It's an extremely well-known brand, but it's a label that up until now has had no real identity. Everything needed re-thinking -- the name, the label, the proportions, the shoulder-lines, the collars -- even the basics of the Dior Homme environment: its offices.
C.C. Your fashion show -- a starkly minimalist runway with models emerging from a luminous blue background -- was certainly a departure for the tad traditional Dior. As were the clothes. Almost all black and white, your signature taut tailoring -- revealing lots of bare skin -- was very much in evidence. Even the pre-show newspaper advertising, double-page black-and-white studio portraits of a bare-torsoed blond boy (shot by Richard Avedon, no less) seem a galaxy away from Dior menswear's image as we know it.
H.S. That's the point. What appealed to me about the Dior proposition was that it's a blank page. I'm not here to do a reincarnation of Christian Dior. I wanted the runway show to be a little "hard core," and very fast. Many of the models we chose for the show were practically unknowns -- I found them on the bus, walking in the street. And Eric Van Nostrand, the boy I chose for the Avedon ads, is a new model, fresh from a small town in upstate New York. I wanted those photos to represent the viewpoint of a new generation -- to distill its energy.
C.C. So Dior Homme's mission now is to dress this "new generation" of men?
H.S. Well, I'd like to think there's a return to elegance, a revival of the notion of "fashion" for men. I've mounted a crusade against this informal "casual Friday" trend. I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive for a change. I'm not a militant, but what I'm really interested in is exploring the possibility of an entirely new kind of masculinity.
Article from eLuxury Magazine
Labels: Designer, Dior Homme, Hedi, Slimane
