Now in at Barneys. I’d like to see something like these made by Alden instead though.
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More preview pictures from Oi Polloi for Woolrich Woolen Mills Spring/Summer 2010, which should be arriving in stores next month. See more on flickr.
Now up on nepenthes.co.jp – some stores in Japan have already received some things from the collection as well.
Most of it looks like things my dad would have worn when he was my age…
Engineered Garments did a last minute run of red chambray workshirts for this season and only a few retailers will have them. Drinkwater’s is nearly sold out, but you might still have a chance to get one when Odin and the Bureau receive their shipments.
Update: It’s now available on Odin’s site.
Thanks to Drinkwater’s for the images.
Brooks Brothers sent out a mailer today pointing to a new section on their site for information on their shoes, Peal and Co, and a flash diagram showing the basic anatomy of an Alden shell cordovan shoe. If you’re still unfamiliar with basic terminology and shoe care, it’s a good page to check out.
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There is an interesting but short piece on Simon Spurr on Interview.
“There’s still a certain civility to menswear. Whereas women’s collections so often become enveloped in a front-row frenzy, a paparazzi free-for-all, and full-tilt after-party mania, the showing and selling of men’s clothes remains a much more staid, methodical affair. And that’s just the way Simon Spurr, the English-born, New York–based menswear designer, likes it. Formally trained at Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Yves Saint Laurent before launching his own label, Spurr, in 2006, the 35-year-old designer is one of the driving forces behind American menswear’s return to simple, well-tailored fashion.”
BLASBERG: Before you started your own line, you worked for a handful of menswear masters, like Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Hedi Slimane during his tenure at Yves Saint Laurent. What did you learn at those places?
SPURR: I learned something distinctive from each one. From Hedi, I learned to disregard trends and focus on my own sense of proportion and color. At Calvin, it was this purist, modern, less-is-more, take-stuff-off idea—Calvin wanted a simple backbone and not much else. And then from Ralph,
I started to understand what it meant to build a brand. There were times when I was working there that it seemed so repetitive. At the time, I didn’t understand what was happening. But when I stepped out of it, I realized what he was doing was achieving a signature look and reiterating that. That’s why when you think about a polo shirt you think about Ralph—he owns that garment.
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Images for Spurr Fall/Winter 2009 and Spring/Summer 2010.
Wisdom from an old issue of LIFE, published in 1967.
Available on rby45rpm.com.