julie x mulberry

Mulberry's Stroke of Genius
Julie Verhoeven signs on for fall capsule line

Tuesday, May 22, 2007




The Julie Verhoeven for Mulberry tote

(LONDON) Julie Verhoeven’s cult bags for Louis Vuitton in 2002 may have been an instant hit, but for fall, the artist has collaborated with another classic leather goods house—only this one is in her own backyard. Mulberry has asked the London-based artist to create a capsule collection of dresses, scarves, T-shirts, and bags inspired by the marriage of British eccentricity and luxury. The pieces will be in stores this September.

Verhoeven, famed for her quirky, erotic collage figure drawings, worked with Mulberry design director Stuart Vevers to translate her aesthetic into product. The collection features a $1,995 smock dress with ribbon appliqué detail and a large quilted chain handle bag priced at $1,195. Also in the collection are two tees, priced at $99 each, and a giant silk scarf. The print on the products is a collage of flowers, faces, and graphics in pink, rose, and white on a black background.



A Mulberry dress by Julie Verhoeven










“The brief was to be both vibrant and bold and a little cheeky,” explained Verhoeven. “We worked around the traditional English rose icon with thorny surprises—surrealist and nonsense elements thrown in to the mix. English eccentricities and traditions gone a little askew, but with fondness and femininity.”
JIM SHI









- I still got the CD: APC x Julie "Let the poor boy Rock and roll"... I love her illustration, but I dont see myself wearing her illustration and pay so much for it. I'd rather buy a copy of her book

-oh maybe not the bag, but the dress is cute.. I think of TC.. hahaha

alice roi

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No Hiding From Alice Roi

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By ERIC WILSON
Published: May 3, 2007

LIKE her brash, unflirtatious designs for urban tomboys, Alice Roi is not coy. Asked what she, a designer with authentic indie stature, intended by blanketing SoHo this week with her name on posters and her little smock dresses in two stores, she came right to the point. She wanted to see whether or not people would actually buy her clothes.
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FAST FASHION An Alice Roi smock dress, part of her new collection for Uniqlo.

Ms. Roi is one of eight guest designers selling a capsule collection at the Uniqlo flagship on lower Broadway this spring, and her $49.50 paper-bag shorts and $69.50 smock dresses caused the usual fast-fashion frenzy when they went on sale Friday morning. Ms. Roi was there, too.

For three days beginning today, she also plans to sell her signature spring runway designs, with dresses that start at $300, at a “pop up” shop nearby at 76 Greene Street, a space normally used for sample sales. Ms. Roi said she figured that with the added exposure from the Uniqlo collection, it was a good moment to test the retail waters herself.

“I thought it would be a good idea to get my feet wet first and not fully commit to a store,” she said.

Still, her name was pervasive on the streets. Racked.com, a shopping blog, described the dual approach, including the Alice Roi posters around the neighborhood, as “the Roi-ification of SoHo.” An exaggeration, considering Ms. Roi has been in business since 2000 and is not as powerful a presence as all that. But she has developed a fan base among women who favor an alternative view of pretty other than satin ruffles and tweed bouclé jackets and are willing to seek her out.

“It’s great to have the whole brand represented, rather than a rack of clothes that’s next to another rack of someone else’s clothes,” Ms. Roi said.

To give a better sense of what she has in mind for a permanent store someday, she transformed the pop-up space into what she described as a “sculptural cleaned-up theme park” by installing whitewashed roller coaster tracks along the floor, kites on the ceiling and fun-house changing rooms that give the illusion of being as transparent as her intentions. Ms. Roi said voyeurs will be able to make out only general shapes behind a curtain.




hahaha i like the phrase urban tomboy. Dress masculine and cute yeah yeah

today! MOSS FEVER

I can totally understand people waiting outside of TopShop, getting the pieces designed by Kate. There was Victor and Rolf (honestly I won't consider Madonna) and stella mccartney. Moss is even a bigger hit since well.. personally I would love Topshop more than H&M and Kate more than Stella (even though Stella is the fashion designer). Price-wise is like double price than what was sold in the collaboration in H&M (despite the fact that exchange rate is more than double)! But I am sure they will be cleaned out within hours.

May 1, 2007 – As a first night blooper, it was a classic. British press photographers were stacked on ladders in London's Oxford Street in front of thousands of shoppers-in-waiting looped around the Topshop building. At 8 p.m., there was Kate Moss, poised to appear in the window. A massive roar of "FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE!" went up—and the curtain refused to budge."Looks like Kate's place in here," she said. "Even those metal swallows on the wall. They're her tattoos."

SECOND HIT: May 9th @ Barney's

Introduce Alice Roi

Alice Roi POP UP Shop

76 Greene st New York
May3-6
11am-7pm
The Designer

After studying fine arts at NYU and design at Parsons, Roi went on to work at Elle magazine and Fashion Group International. Ditching fashion consulting in her early '20s, Roi founded her own design house in 1999; the career change paid off quickly—her first collection was snatched up by trend-setting New York' boutique Kirna Zabete.

Love the black and white.. plus a little tan brown

76 Greene st has be known to have temporary sample sales regularly. Tons of sample sales are available on topbutton.com.

Yohji with Mikimoto

After the collaboration with Doc Martens, Yohji has this new collaboraion with jewelry designer Mikimoto. Yohji Yamamoto and the Japanese jewelry firm have announced plans for a joint project set to debut this fall, when they will align their talents to create an unprecedented series of fine jewelry collections.

Yamamoto’s focus on designing this jewelry collection centers on the pearl. While the collection is still in development phases, a spokesperson for Mikimoto said that the collection of 20 pieces, comprising three groups, will range in price from approximately $2,500 to $150,000 and include necklaces, pendants, earrings, rings, and bracelets.

Starting in November 2007, the distribution will be limited to the Yohji Yamamoto and the 19 freestanding Mikimoto stores worldwide, as well as select points of sales in the United States. In 2008, the distribution will be expanded in Europe and Asia.


I am excited!!!!

What's the difference...

Junya Watanabe is the latest designer to do a high-low collaboration—his checked Converse have just hit stores. Chuck Taylor purists may swear by the originals, but these eighties versions are perfect to pair with skinny jeans and come in three color combos: red-white, black-white, and navy-white. Plus they're a fun alternative to those dull white kicks everyone's sporting.


So classic, so normal, so uncessary.
ps. winnytsang got the special edition: yellow x black LOL

Another Collaboration

Do the White Thing





Your approach to style? Always leave a lasting impression.

Take something that works, like a classic white shirt, and give it a twist. That’s the idea behind Gap Design Editions, a new collection inspired by the classic white shirt and created exclusively for Gap by three of the most celebrated emerging American design labels in fashion today: Doo.Ri, Rodarte, and Thakoon.


Each designer created three unique interpretations of the classic white shirt, an iconic item that has been part of Gap’s heritage for more than 35 years. The goal? To support and encourage new American design talent as part of Gap’s partnership with the Council of Fashion Designers of America/Vogue Fashion Fund. And, way more importantly, to make you look effortlessly chic.

Even better? The super-stylish shirts are easy on the wallet (from $68 to $88).

Making your mark on the world without doing permanent damage to your bank account?

Now that’s classic.


Only PLUS PLUS PLUS sizes are available on gap.com
especially the special and cute ones
Rodarte's flowery top, the Thakoon mini dress is my favorite and the rodarte pocket dress (all images uploaded) SO CUTE
sadly... they're popular, no size left online.

Are you One of them?

Shop Talk



It’s time to talk shop.

Achilles heel
n. Your weakness for pretending to fit into the last pair of size-six boots when you’re really an eight.

ample sale
n. A sale that consists of pieces in only ginormous or miniscule sizes.

disdress
n. The agony caused by having to strip in communal dressing rooms at sample sales.

dressausage
n. A girl who has squeezed herself into a dress that is way too small for her.

dressing tomb
n. The physics-defying, one-square-foot room in which you’re expected to remove your pants.

fabric-ation
n. The involuntary impulse to lie when the salesgirl asks what size you are.

fearors
n. Dreaded dressing room mirrors that show every last flaw on your body.

insomnishopia
n. A disorder marked by making unnecessary online purchases in the wee hours due to insomnia.

reflection period
n. The time spent contemplating whether you’re being tricked by skinny mirrors and soft filter lighting.

riptag
n. A last-minute purchase that you wear out of the store.

unmodestmouse
n. A naggy salesperson who pulls the curtain back while you’re changing.

Swarovski Christopher Kane

Necklaces and bracelets in Crystal Mesh Swarovski by the young British prodigy Christopher Kane, which were voted this season's jewellery in every Vogue edition. The Swarovski Atelier teamed with numerous designers like Hussein Chalayan, Proenza Schouler, Rodarte.

Worked for Rodarte through Black Frame (PR for Dior Homme too), their stuff is amazing. Now selling in Bergdorf Goodman too, congrats!

Sneaker Freak

Reebok celebrates 25 years of Freestyle, think fitness, aerobics and Flashdance! The countdown has begun for a range of new collectible editions, for Eastern or by Basquiat, in bold colours or cow print.

Moss FEVER

The collection Topshop by Kate Moss will be opening on May 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exhibition "Listen" featuring Christian Marclay, Josh Chuese, Mick Rock, John Hoppy Hopkins and other artists, from May 2nd to 26th.

The tshirts from the project LIMITED EDITION designed by 13 fashion icons such as Carine Roitfeld, Kate Moss, Gwyneth Paltrow, or Helena Christensen will be previewed at colette. The proceeds from the sale will go to CLIMATE PROJECT, Al Gore's association for the protection of the environment.

I want this super bad. Have no idea why people line up for Madonna HM..

Chloe.. Sevigny

It was not enough for Self Service to pay tribute to the beautiful Chloë Sevigny in its magazine. Work in Progress, the design office, now offers four posters (120x170 cm), silk-screened in 5 different colours, in limited edition.

I still have no idea why she's so popular. She has some sense of fashion but people usually said she just lucky. But I LOVE self service magazine!! and the chloe word looks very colette. Love it.

gap (red) to be continued... forever

The exhibition Face of Fashion (catalogue on eshop) is the occasion for GAP (RED) to offer two tshirts in limited edition, one with the portrait of Drew Barrymore (in red) and one with the portrait of Malgosia (in grey), taken by the photographs Mert + Marcus.
Sold in France exclusively at colette.

I went to the gallery when I was in London, thought of buying that tee-shirt but didnt do it because I was almost out of cash. Do support if you have $$$.

Philip Lim & Uniqlo

After Target + Proenza Schouler, it’s time for new Asian deisnger Phllip Lim and another huge mass clothing production company from Japan, Uniqlo. Uniqlo opened its global flagship store on Broadway New York. Uniqlo's SoHo global flagship will be the brand's largest retail store anywhere in the world.
The line consists of trapeze dresses, tomboy vests, and high-waist shorts. Lim’s collection is one in a series of collaborations for the store. Other spotlighting cashmere gurus Lutz &Patmos and the ever hip Alice Roi will also be featured.

Anna Sui: The Secret of Victoria

In 2005, Anna Sui launched her fifth fragrance,Secret Wish. The fragrance was introduced exclusively in the US with American lingerie and beauty retailer Victoria's Secret which will also carry Anna Sui cosmetics beginning in 2006 along with the latest Dolly Girl limited edition, Dolly Girl On the Beach.

Now Sui is applying her trademark girly florals with an edge to Victora's Secret's lingerie, Anna Sui has created something both sweet and sexy for Victoria's Secret. It includes camidoll, camisole, demi bra, skirted bikini etc.


Available on www.victoriassecret.com

Organic Fashion

http://www.myspace.com/gominyc
I found this myspace, it is about eco-friendly cottonmade clothing, but it's not some kind of geekyfashion.
They have the trendy skinny jeans, cute dresses. It is also featured in fashion forward website dailycandy and eco-friendly magazine like domino. They also have a shop in manhattan and aonline website for purchasing. Not only you can now eat organic but you can dress organic.
"it's not cheesy to be green"$190 for a pair of jeans