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MYKITA x ‘Highsnobiety’: The ATKA Frame

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For its 10-year anniversary, “Highsnobiety” pairs with eyewear brand MYKITA for a limited edition sunglass frame. Fusing past and present trends, the Berlin-based brands created a progressive design with a timeless aesthetic limited to 300 pairs worldwide.

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The ATKA model has a translucent front in a nassau color that is paired with black temples and a modern mix of surfaces, uniting warm, vivid acetate and sleek stainless steel for a contrasting blend of material.

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The light frame also boasts a tailored, click-in connection that creates a subtle trademark in the shape of a metal square. In the past, the media outlet has teamed up with Puma, Kith, and adidas, but it is the first brand to collaborate with MYKITA on this new, mixed-material style.

MYKITA x “Highsnobiety” is available online now.

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Raymond Weil Adventures with Realteam Sailing

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Swiss watchmaker Raymond Weil supports the Realteam sailing team as the official timing partner for the 2016 season of the D35 Trophy on Lake Geneva and the GC32 Racing Tour internationally.

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Paying homage to the eponymous brand’s founder, who was a member of the Geneva Yacht Club, while also enjoying today’s challenges, a new freelancer watch arrives to accompany the crew ahead.

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The powerful design has a 42.5mm diameter case, echoing the dynamics of diving watches, a luminescent indicator, and unidirectional rotating bezel in black ceramic with white, green, or orange graduation, as well as a screwed-down crown. Readability is ensured by the Super-Luminova, and the folding clasp of its rubber watch strap with double push-security allows adjustment and resistance. After passing numerous tests of resistance to impact, magnetic waves, pressure, and temperature changes, the new timepiece showed values of performance, precision, and innovation.

 

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Frank + Oak Sees a Brand-New Look

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Frank + Oak enhances its visual identity and overall ethos through a newly-transformed mobile app, website, and store concept that allows consumers 24/7 personal styling and 2-hour deliveries in select markets, among other features. The transition comes from a high-speed year of 13 store openings—including its first international brick-and-mortar—and amped up products and online services. Externally, the clean design includes minimal typography, suggested featured products, a fresh color palette, and a brand new logo, the “step up,” while in-store programming ranges from a new merchandizing plan—products will now be grouped in four distinct zones—to lifestyle supplements in the form of lounge areas and one-on-one appointments. “Every change we’re making is considered and only in the service of making the experience better,” said Frank + Oak CMO Eric Alper in a statement. “Our brand transformation is not merely a visual change: it’s about owning our purpose.”

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Church’s Introduces Summer 450 Collection

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Church’s range of classic shoes and evolving taste is once again introduced in its 450 collection of summer appropriate styles. Along with a brand new feather stamped interior, the weight of each sole has been reduced from 540 grams to 450 for a more comfortable step. From selections of leather to “Goodyear” construction methods, it takes up to eight weeks to craft a single pair, emphasizing the British brand’s dedication to artisanal quality, which has remained a constant force since the 1880s.

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Bottega Veneta Debuts Second Maison

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Based on Creative Director Tomas Maier’s design concept that draws from his own father’s architectural influence, Bottega Veneta opens its second Maison in the world in Beverly Hills.

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Following its Milanese predecessor, the 4,828-square-foot space centers on the idea of lightness, space, and balance, aiming to reflect the house’s aesthetic as well as local architecture. The two-story interior inspires from early Mediterranean Revival, Southern California architecture from early last century, and Mexican-Colonial Spanish Revival style, uniting an intimate environment of beauty and discretion. These cues translate into skylight details on the top floor with natural light intensifying a color palette of neutral, earthly tones as walls and ceilings are constructed of bleached oak wood, while flooring is of fossil Piscina stone, Coquina, and brushed oak wood.

Bottega Veneta is now open at 320 N Rodeo Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

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John Elliott Reveals Two-Part rtv+ Capsule

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John Elliott introduces a capsule collection entitled rtv+ (“Running Through Vietnam Plus”) that features military-inspired basics influenced by his own trip of discovery to Hanoi. The two-part release is made up of cropped raw hem denim, new sweatshirt styles, layered two-pack tees, and oversized sweats in washed-down, pale tones of gray, blue, and black. Photographed above by Patrick Maus in the Southeast Asian country’s capital, a neon backdrop draws attention to the streets.

John Elliott rtv+ is available online now.

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Publish Brand Introduces Boardshorts

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Known for its joggers and footwear, Publish Brand debuts its first collection of boardshorts timed perfectly for summer.

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The release consists of four water resistant, quick drying styles made with high-quality materials consistent with the brand’s strong design aesthetic and innovative concept.  The Andersen short has a ‘90s inspired fit and is rendered in four oil-washed executions, while the Silas features a trio of two-toned hues.

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A blend between a classic runner cut and drop crotch inseam is featured in the hybrid Taku design in tones of black, heather, natural, and navy. The fourth style, the Weaver, sports a traditional surf short silhouette and is printed in three different versions of the brand’s signature camo.

Publish Brand’s boardshorts collection is available online now.

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agnès b. x Ryan McGinness: An Artistic Blend

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Inspired by the artist’s 2014 work “Signs,” in which he installed 50 fabricated street signs along downtown New York, Ryan McGinness unites with fashion designer agnès b. for an art-meets-fashion capsule collection.

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At the core of the project, the duo present a unique, three-style T-shirt design that sees short sleeves sewn over longer layers in representation of the rebellious way McGinness once dressed as a teenager in Virginia Beach. In an imperfect approach, the styles acknowledge ‘90s skate culture with texture added to reveal each’s stitching and finished with graphic prints in red, black, and white. The collaboration joins an in-store installation of McGinness’ work entitled “Signals: Units of Meaning: Drawings of Elements & Compounds,” now on view at agnès b.’s SoHo outpost, along with other featured products that include mugs, vinyl tote bags, patches, and a limited edition skateboard.

agnès b. x Ryan McGinness is available at 50 Howard Street, New York. NY.

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Willy Vanderperre Goes Backstage Prada AW16 in ‘Dis Dressed Redux’

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Following his “dis dressed” and “dis dressed epilogue” projects, Willy Vanderperre releases a new series of exclusive images photographed behind the scenes of Prada‘s Autumn/Winter 2016 runway show titled “Dis Dressed Redux.” Miuccia Prada’s individualistic approach is portrayed in the season’s narration of the then and now; an attempt to teach the fusion of fashion and culture through the layering of pieces in color collage and prints with bits of ’50s edge, nautical elements, and military detail. Focusing on the spirit of each look, overtop black and white backgrounds, Vanderperre adds to the intensity of Prada’s complex aesthetic universe in a style that follows his own preoccupation with youth—a motif that can also be seen through the photographer’s previous collaborations with Raf Simons, Dior Homme, and Jil Sander.

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Now on View: Mike Kelley’s “Shaped Paintings” Decorate Skarstedt

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International gallery Skarstedt exhibits contemporary artist Mike Kelley as you’ve never seen him in “Shaped Paintings,” a show that brings his varied pieces together for the first time. The American artist’s works range from performance pieces to wall-size drawings in an array of mediums symbolic of cultural attitudes and repressed abuse. MoMA PS1 previously hosted the largest exhibition of the artist, occupying the entire museum with 200 influential works that dated back to 1993 in relation to pop culture and social structure. Included now in his new show, the “Thirteen Seasons” series consists of oval-shaped paintings on wood in representation of each month of the year, with the final piece serving as a reminder that art seeks memory and preserves its existence through time. Significant to his approach and influential art education, this series centers itself through elements of Hans Hofmann’s “push-pull” theory, finger painting techniques, and childlike illustrations that vivify Kelley’s unconsciousness of inhibited memories.

“Shaped Paintings” is now on view at Skarstedt in NYC from April 21 – June 25, 2016.

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3.1 Phillip Lim & What is Missing? Partner for Earth Day

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In recognition of Earth Day, 3.1 Phillip Lim partners with artist Maya Lin’s What is Missing? foundation on a new charitable T-shirt capsule that spotlights four animals on the brink of extinction. Through installations, studio artworks, and memorials—among other highly influential projects—Lin’s group raises awareness for endangered species impacted by climate change, habitat loss, and poaching. Today’s collaboration between both collides fashion with environmental insight, featuring white organic cotton tees with black, life-sized footprints of the Siberian crane, African elephant, black rhinoceros, and tiger.

3.1 Phillip Lim x What is Missing? is available online and at retail stores now.

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FRAME’s Flagship Hits Los Angeles

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Premium denim maker FRAME opens its Los Angeles store on Melrose Place, reflecting the brand’s celebrity attraction and minimal approach to fashion. Founders Jens Grede and Erik Torstensson focused on the their European and Californian influences, developing the interiors of the brick and mortar with a design sensibility that emphasized oversized windows, warm touches of redwood, and a fireplace that enhances the stone and marble fixtures. The organic and contemporary ambience echoes an earthly sensation that adjusts to both the location and FRAME’s vision.

FRAME is now open at 8467 Melrose Place in Los Angeles, CA.