Porta's Look!... ku:nel magazine

ku:nel magazine vol.42

Just quickly sharing some images from the new issue of ku:nel which came out today!! The main copy of this issue is "Favourite Blankets", I LOVE BLANKETS! I've also just added it to my shop

The HOT PINK! masking tape is my new favourite now, too!
Hope you are enjoying the week! :)

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ku:nel magazine vol.41

The latest issue of ku:nel magazine is out today! It's all Paris! At the back of the magazine it has a list of address with a map which all foodies would love. Also it has a "special gift" - a ku:nel calender for 2010! But the thing is, this issue has a "special price" too and is 90 yen more expensive than normal price. That must be for the "special gift" which I would rather pay the normal price and not get the calender, don't you think? hmmmmm, but anyway we don't seem to have a choice. Well if you still want to get it, it's here in my shop.

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ku:nel magazine vol.40

The latest issue of ku:nel magazine is out now! This issue is featuring on outdoors and forests: cooking in the forest, mushrooms found in the woods, amazing little "mushroom house" in the forest, and outdoor fashion etc. You can get this new ku:nel vol.40 now from my shop!

Special Thanks All Posted by hiki

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"that's such a cute topic!!!!"



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Porta's Look!...Aussie Mags

Cuppa with

Aussie Mags

Yes that miranda july I saw at ii-ne-kore!

Lovely HelloSandwich Ebo-chan so kindly brought me a copy of Frankie current issue for me which I had cheekily requested. I picked up my first Frankie mag at Cairns airport last February when I was there on a 3-hour transit from Melbourne waiting for my next plane back to Tokyo. It surely saved me from dying of boredom! I was hoping to read more of it so I'm really happy to finally have a new copy of it in my hands :) (I just found out that I can buy it at Aoyama Book Centre... still it's nice to think it came directly to me carried by Ebony.)

Sweet Ebony even got me a copy of another great Australian magazine Dumbo feather, pass it on, I love how it's done, such inspiring designs and photographs it's really cool. Thank you Arigato so much Ebony-chan, you are the sweetest ;)

What are your favourite local magazines? I would love to find out about more cool mags that are published outside Japan!

P.S. Check out marie's shop now with some lovely new items!
P.P.S. New post here at hibika.blogspot.com (looking good)!

Special Thanks Posted by hiki

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" I'm really Happy, Lovely!!!!"




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Hot and Covered...MilK Magazine

HAIR

WE GO!!!!

(Photos by Shuji Goto)

Very cute! I love this magazine!!
I like the little girl in the center...saw this too from pomme, and yes, very cute.
makes me wanna have a kid of my own now!lol.
How cute are these hair cuts and hair styles on these adorable kids?
Found in MILK MAGAZINE issue no. 11 Japan version.


MilK
LE MAGAZINE DE MODE ENFANTINE
2010/03/01
OPEN!!!!

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" Must too cute! KAWAII!!!! "


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Hot and Covered...Spring Essential: Fatigue Shorts

~Spring Essential~

Fatigue Shorts

Over the last couple summers I overcame my own issues with wearing shorts and have actually started looking forward to wearing them in the coming months. I used to just prefer pants; jeans, chinos, cords – I just thought they looked and felt better at all times of the year. I’ve come around and now I have to say one of my favorite pairs out there is the fatigue, or camp short. This spring Engineered Garments have brought back their best knee length pants in a variety of perfect colours and fabrics. The reverse sateen, light-weight denim and chambray complete a perfect arsenal of shades to get you through the summer. The model isn’t new and the chambray and reverse sateen are common materials in the EG collection, which are nice familiar faces now. I was lucky enough to recently find a pair of the chambray shorts from SS09 for $45 which is definitely an easier price to swallow. That said, J.Crew also have had a very nice version of the shorts and thanks to Mr. Pate’s heads up, they were one of my favorites last summer.

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more on...

Inventory update

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The ringspun were the best in these, shame that fabric seems to have been missed in the collection this time around. However,

" I can highly recommend the chambray
as I have these too. Great Shorts! "



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New Modern Classic...Gant Rugger X Take Ivy

Ivy Trendwatch:

Gant Rugger x

Take Ivy

The designers at Gant Rugger appear to have hit the books in preparation for the Spring 2010 collection. Or at least one book: “Take Ivy,” the 1965 Japanese photo book hyped to the max on the Web the past couple of years.

The sartorial motifs of “Take Ivy” abound in the Rugger collection, mixed and matched with colors changed. There are hooded rain slickers, shorts worn with white socks and loafers, skinny chinos with untucked oxfords, jeans with the pant legs rolled up, and canvas sneakers sans socks.

There’s also the wool and leather varsity jacket:

And the varsity windbreaker with striped collar and cuffs, worn with shorts:

And the hooded rain slicker, also paired with shorts:

And finally the untucked, sleeves-rolled oxford accessorized with bicycle:

Further “Take Ivy” influences can be seen in the “Road Trip” video on the Rugger website, which includes bucolic scenes of nature (very Dartmouth), and young men bicycling around a small college town. Or maybe Brooklyn.

Now owned by Gant Pyramid AB of Sweden, Gant is proclaiming a redefining of the brand based on a rededication to its 1949 origins in New Haven, Connecticut. Writes the company on its website:

After years spent scouring the US for vintage originals, sorting through dusty swatches, and searching through our vast fabric archives with an unheard-of attention to detail, the new and improved Gant Rugger is back with a vengeance to reclaim the field with a collection unlike anything else out there.

Unlike anything, that is, except “Take Ivy.”

Further:

We’re one of the very few brands still standing who were right there at the birth of American sportswear during the 1950s, and it’s our heritage that makes us who we are today.

Now don’t think I’m being censorious in pointing out the book and collection parallels: Tradition-with-a-twist is the best approach to making fashion, as it properly balances novelty with respect for the classics. There’s no need to create new forms, as they’ve all been perfected already. So cheers to Gant for keeping the taste for classic American style alive for a new generation.

As for “Take Ivy,” someone just lent me a copy and I can say it’s much more enjoyable in print than in pixels. The style and functionality of the clothes really leap off the page, or rather draw you in, revealing American sportswear at its best.

If you’re interested in The Ivy League Look, I highly encourage you to seek out a hard copy. Try your local lending library. Or eBay. Or a Gant store. — CC

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"Indeed, the fashion industry often strikes
one as based entirely on a combination of
needless novelty and total redundancy."


This is precisely why those with a sense of style, rather than fashion,
stay away from such “collections”.



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Hot and Covered...Maison Martin Margiela Menswear Fall Winter 2010

MAISON MARTIN

MARGIELA

Menswear

Fall Winter 2010

Maison Martin Margiela has such a track record of unconventional presentations, that the idea of a runway show of their mens collection seems almost absurd now. From films shown in cafes, to defilés in railway stations and disused parking lots, there has been no shortage of unusual and often ‘low-brow’ locations to disengage guests from the glitz and glamour of Paris presentations. For Fall Winter 2010, Margiela returned to the Maison des Métallos in the 11th district, a modern hall that lacks any grandeur or history of french architecture – simply a blank canvas which the house succeeds in making, well, even more blank.

A lab-coated assistant pulls aside a white canvas curtain as we entered the room, revealing a rudimentary café setup with bottles of wine, glasses and a ‘menu’ placed on square tables surrounded by white plastic chairs. The back wall was covered entirely in a black and white photograph of a café scene from the late 1950s, with ladies and gentlemen frocked and suited, all seemingly watching with expectation. As we sat at our table, we noticed a single seat out of the four is marked ‘RESERVED’.

As the presentation begun and the first model made his way around the tables we understood why the seat was reserved, as he ended his walk by finding a place on an adjacent table and joining the guests to watch the rest of the parade. Each model did the same, wandering around the room at a placid pace before seating himself at a table, until all twenty six looks had been shown and the models stood in unison and exited to light applause.

The garments themselves were “an abstraction of black and white photography” said the house, and were indeed a study of monochrome, executed in unusual textural and technical fabrics. Soft nappa leather tee shirts were a basis for several looks, a particular point of difference for what was a rather by-the-book collection for Margiela’s established menswear formula. Suiting in a plethora of checked and dotted flannel wools was worn with a strong but rounded shoulder, slim and long in the body. Trousers were also slim, printed in oversized dots, stripes, patched with leather or worn with a cummerbund. Jackets came as a classik biker, Prince-of-Wales macintosh, and with sheepskin accents. Interesting details could be seen in a shoe imprinted with the silhouettes of bent nails, and an Artisanal Line waistcoat embroidered with leather polka dots on stalks resembling small mushrooms or confetti.

With some models sporting messy hair and long beards, the casting complemented the backdrop well, and as the models sat at our tables they could almost have been mistaken for just another well-dressed editor or buyer in a head-to-toe ‘look’!

Permeated with a sense of quiet unease and awkward clatter helped on by the soundtrack of atmospheric café sounds by Radio Mentale, the show was a true echo of what Maison Martin Margiela has become as a brand.

Photography by Linus Sundahl-Djerf. Courtesy of the Maison Martin Margiela.

POSTED BY DAN THE SCOUT

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"And what one can begin to expect
from their well-honed menswear aesthetic."


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