Cool Hunting

For this year's Bread & Butter Winter 2009 extravaganza we called upon our good friends at Titel Media who publish sites like High Snobiety, Selectism and Rad Collector among others, to get their opinions on some favorite items from the show. Read their thoughts on the recent show below.

By Titel Media Staff

Europe's largest fashion tradeshow, Bread & Butter returned to its Berlin roots for this year's Winter 2009 show, taking residence inside the massive Tempelhof Airport. Although moving to a more more centralized European location after a stint in Barcelona Spain, the number of brands and labels that attended last week may not have fully measured up to previous years—another result of this global recession. However, as always, there were miles of booths filled with independent brands. Below is a quick roundup of some of our favorite looks from the show.

Britian's Nigel Cabourn produced what the Selectism editors consider to be their favorite jacket of the tradeshow. The Cotton Beeswax Jacket for Spring/Summer 2010 will be available in two lengths and finished in either off-white or yellow. The shorter of the pair includes a nice hoodie making it a perfect Spring jacket for those raining affairs. Mr. Cabourn's collection is sure to take the lead in the classic heritage movement which is still pushing through the fashion world.

N.D.C.'s collection for Spring 2010 has some charmers. We've seen plenty of high-tops incorporating design touches that usually show up in boat shoes, but we haven't seen boat shoes with the high top heel cushion. It's a thoughtful move that'll make the shoe a lot more comfortable and enjoyable to wear.

Italian brand Camo already impressed us at the last Bread & Butter tradeshow but did again on our pass through this year. The line is growing and continues to attract eyes with smart details and twists on their clothing. The Spring/Summer 2010 Collection consists of nice knitwear pieces, shorts, ties, pants, t-shirts and more. We see similarities with favorite brands like Wood Wood and Vibskov. The collection is made in Italy and thus high quality in production. The only thing is that we hope to see them picked up by more stores to make it more accessible.

Another interesting project revealed at Bread & Butter was collaboration with Uslu Airlines. The Berlin-based nail polish brand previously worked with Nike on the Air Force 1 as part of the 1World project. Now with Reebok they worked on two high top sneakers for Spring/Summer 2010 and the least one can say is that they got creative. In fact, the sneaker pictured above right glows in the dark.

A special thanks to the whole High Snob crew for lending their opinions of Bread & Butter this year. All images by Robert Wunsch and Jeff Carvalho.