Trend Report: Spring/Summer 2013

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Adventurous bomber jackets. Bigger sleeves and longer shorts. Faded pastels and gleaming metallics. This spring’s trends are all over the map! It’s time to start planning a warm weather wardrobe that should be anything but boring! Blue By Any Other Name Blue. It’s a color so placid and ubiquitous that some ancient languages could never [...]

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From Beijing With Love: Dior Homme Takes Their Fall 2013 Runway show to Beijing with New Looks!

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Models are tall, but runway shows are short. How’s that for irony? Or better, how is that for a reason to experience the Dior Homme Fall 2013 runway show again…except this time in a new venue and with three brand new looks? That’s what happened on April 25th, at the Museum Central Academy of Fine [...]

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Frank & Oak + Lunice Capsule Collection

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On a big roll is Frank & Oak who, weeks after giving the world their athletic line, have just teamed up with Lunice, you know, the hitman responsible for remixing some hot tracks from Azelia Banks, the xx, Theophilus London and Foster the People, on a capsule collection of street cred shirting. The limited edition [...]

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Unruly Heir Fall 2013: A Sartorial Gateway

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For those of you who revel in mixing and matching the unlikely…and probably a giant keg (of the good stuff), here’s a collection to dive head first into. The clothing is as insouciant as it is irreverent, as prepster as it is modern and meant to be worn as an appurtenance to your larger than [...]

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Pyer Moss Fall 2013: Inaugural Collection

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If you didn’t hear about Pyer Moss after Rihanna was photographed walking out of a night club a few weeks ago with their camo leather jacket draped over her shoulders, then now’s the time to pay attention. With a small but tight 10 piece capsule collection, the new men’s line was unveiled during New York [...]

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Bespoken Fall 2013: The Tie is Wide

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Bespoken’s known for taking some rocked out sensibility and stitching into the refined quality of Saville Row suiting, so the library at the NoMad Hotel was the perfect setting. For Fall 2013 they played around with some unexpected styles—contrasting collars, wide ties, tuxedo jackets, plush fabrics, interesting textures and at last one blazer that reads [...]

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Lucio Castro Fall 2013: Use your Illusion

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The color blocking theme was one of the most noticeable trends at the mens shows in New York and one that newcomer Lucio Castro interpreted through an eye of irreverence and illusion. Pants are blocked to look like shorts and ties are blocked and appear short. And then there’s the part you don’t see—all the pieces have [...]

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Favorite Five: Perry Ellis by Duckie Brown Fall 2013

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Perry Ellis by Duckie Brown Fall 2013 is a collection inspired by camo, but not of camo. Like any good union of creative talent, Daniel Silver and Stephen Cox rarely agree—Silver was for using camo as an integral part of the Fall 2013 collection, Cox was not. Silver had a ten year old swatch of camo lying [...]

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Asher Levine Fall 2013: Like A Bat out of Houndstooth

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Asher Levine never fails to turn out a collection to spark conversation, be it with the clothing or the manner in which he presents it. For Spring 2013, it was a motley crew of acid drenched comic book villains on the Hudson River Piers, this time around, it was a combo movie theater/runway/presentation amalgamation and a bat outta hell. [...]

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Leather Japan Fall 2013: Leather Designers Rising

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Something that we took away from New York Fashion Week? Japanese leather is a thing, and in a big way. To drive this point, the Japanese Ministry of Economic Trade and the fine people at Maguire Steele and set up a Lincoln Center presentation that refused to be ignored. The formula? A ten piece Japanese [...]

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