Cool Hunting
Here are some highlights from this week at Refinery29: Steven Alan may be at the helm of a mini fashion empire in New York, but his local city roots go deeper than just apparel. He led Refinery29 to his favorite under-the-radar haunts and hangouts in his native Chinatown, including a a Pakistani tea house and the New York Ping Pong club. Robert Geller is another New York men's fashion icon with his Cloak imprint; now he's developed a beautiful new women's collection, Harald, which evokes a fresh spin on urban sophistication. In a similar vein, jewelry designer Lisa Levine may be based out of New York, but her sexy, slightly offbeat jewelry is inspired by way of the Southwest and Mexico and combine modern designs with found objects and organic materials.
On Cool Hunting: Lisa Levine Jewelry
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The second season of The Countdown, Refinery29's video series featuring profiles on important names in fashion, premiered yesterday 22 January 2008 in collaboration with MySpace Fashion. The series visits five influential independent designers in their studios as they prepare for New York Fashion Week 2008. The first episode's subject is none other than Thom Browne and includes an interview with the designer as he prepares...
by Pamela LiouHere's a thought: Every single designer in the fashion pantheon started out as a precocious newbie bent on mixing things up. With a little moxy and lots of talent, they built ironclad legacies, but established as they may be, they can't keep a stranglehold on the industry forever. Each year there are more and more lines—some good, but most…not—jumping into the ring....
Elizabeth Beer and Brian Janusiak's new Chinatown venture, Project No. 8, yields a new breed of concept boutique. The eighth of the pair's collaborative endeavors, the store's initial offering includes a wide range of international and local designers, including Boudicca, Tucker, Anuschka Hoevener, RO-BERT, and A Dètacher. Found objects like the "perfect weight pen" from Kaweco, a German pen manufacturer, add an element of...
Christine J. Brandt's shapely oversized rings and necklace pendants put her right in line with current cutting-edge jewelry designers, but her use of nature, both for raw materials and inspiration, sets her apart beautifully. Creating her pieces from a log cabin in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, Brandt fashions her jewelry from exotic woods, raw crystals, and stones, each piece hand-carved and finished with natural oils...
When it comes to fashion, it's often necessary to search far and wide to find the most dynamic designers and stores. With Ivana Helsinki, a designer from Finland whose clothing is based around bold, monochromatic prints, the journey is long but rewarding. Much like Sweden and Denmark have been a focal point of modern industrial design, Finland has been leading the way for textiles...
Sitting above Freemans, the quasi-secret restaurant well-known for its back-alley access and collection of antlers, Freemans Sporting Club is restaurant owner Taavo Somer's other passions: a made-to-measure suit showroom that is helping to revive the bespoke tailoring of yesteryear. A punk rocker at heart, Somer started the appointment only business out of a desire to wear something more subversive than the common vintage t-shirt...
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