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Chitose Abe Will Take Over Jean Paul Gaultier

After a 50-year career and staggering final presentation in Paris, Jean Paul Gaultier knows the show must go on. The beloved French designer announced his retirement in February but he had yet to name a successor to his vast empire until now. Earlier this week, Gaultier announced that Chitose Abe, the designer behind Japanese label Sacai, will create the label’s next couture collection.

 

Abe won’t take over the company permanently, though — she will essentially kick off a new brand initiative as it experiments with hiring different designers each season to oversee the collection. For a designer as revered and anomalous as JPG, this is an intriguing, though not entirely new, concept. (Remember when Hood By Air’s Shayne Oliver designed a Helmut Lang collection as its ‘designer in residence’ in 2017? Same thing.) Plenty of brands have invited guest designers to lend their talents for one collection, but Gaultier’s decision to adopt this as an ongoing strategy essentially allows the label to persevere at the hands of the very designers it inspired. It’s kind of genius, but then again, when isn’t he?

 

“I am pleased that this concept will become reality now with Chitose Abe of Sacai as the first guest designer. I admire her work, we have many things in common creatively and a similar vision of fashion. I am glad to give her the complete freedom,” Gaultier said in a statement to WWD.

 

Chitose Abe will present her Jean Paul Gaultier collection in July

 

 

 

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Sacai x Nike Give Double Vision

Eschewing traditional takes, the latest collection from Sacai and Nike focuses on revamping what makes a sneaker, from tongue to sole. Footwear from the line may cause double vision: both the low-tops and mid-tops feature layers of tongues, overlapping swooshes, and color compositions that make them easy to match with anything. Other pieces from the collection embrace ‘90s-style nostalgia, experimenting with different combinations of denim and flannel—a perfect fusion of bold and traditional.

Images: Sacai.

 

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Trending Tunes: Sacai AW17 Runway Soundtrack

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Image: Sacai.

Trending Tunes:

Set aside your outdated hype playlists or over-spun DJ tracks and turn to a more updated fare with Trending Tunes, the definitive Autumn/Winter 2017 runway compilation from around the globe. Just set up those subs, press play, and walk that walk.

The mix:

Soundtrack from Sacai‘s Autumn/Winter 2017 runway show for Paris Fashion Week by Senjan Jansen.

Track list in the following order:
01. “Stars” – Mr. Fingers
02. “Pole” – Karlheinz Stockhausen
03. “Spiral I, for Electonium and Short Wave Radio” – Karlheinz Stockhausen
04. “Stoned Immaculate” – The Police
05. “Riders on the Storm” – The Police
06. “Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut Ups” – William Burroughs
07. “Think Twice” – Henrik Schwartz
08. “Voices in My Head” A Capella – The Police


Audio: Senjan Jansen, courtesy of Sacai.

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Neither ESSENTIAL HOMME nor Sacai claim ownership of any of these songs. If you have ownership of music in this playlist and wish to not be included, please contact us at INFO [at] essentialhommemag.com and we will remove immediately.

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PFW: Backstage Sacai Autumn/Winter 2017

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Known for stitching threads of femininity throughout its looks, Sacai revitalized outerwear with collaborative pieces alongside The North Face, walking 8-bit style camo and deliciously gaudy brass buttons down the industrial runway.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

Paris Fashion Week AW17
Image: Paolo Simi.

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NikeLab x Stone Island Redo the Windrunner

Image: NikeLab x Stone Island.

A staple since the late ’70s, Nike celebrates the Windrunner jacket with two NikeLab partnerships—Stone Island for men and Sacai‘s Chitose Abe for women—both of which re-imagine the fan favorite with an inventive use of new materials, shapes, and colors. Widely recognized for its high-tech fabrics, surface treatments, and production techniques, the former brings dyeing and technical innovations (wind and water resistant mussola gommata and nylon metal fabrics) to the outerwear item. The exterior of the NikeLab x Stone Island is monochromatic with a subtle texture difference and an added silver PrimaLoft lining that provides a stunning contrast.

The collaborative jacket will be available at select NikeLab retailers and Stone Island stores starting December 17, 2015.

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76 Reasons Dover Street Market NY is Going to be Awesome

dsmnyThere’s not much that can be said about Dover Street Market—or its founder, the reclusive Rei Kawakubo—that hasn’t already been tried to be pulled out like teeth by the sartorial elite. We could count the number of veiled interviews this year alone with our fingers—if we weren’t already rushing to flip through the rare pages—in which Kawakubo allowed for public comment. There was one with Suzy Munkes, a conversation with Style.com Matthew Schneier, a few brief words for System Magazine‘s second issue, and, for the most part, that was it. Bottom line is, she’s very mysterious.

Now, Kawakubo’s New York edition of Dover Street Market, a seven-story, 18,00 square foot store, opens tomorrow (Saturday, December 21) in perhaps one of Manhattan’s least-posh neighborhoods: Murray Hill (the irony!). There is talk of a Louis Vuitton pop-up shop on the first floor, a Parisian-inspired Rose Bakery on the mezzanine (similar to the store’s counterparts in Tokyo and London), and even a DSM x Prada exclusive collection. All of this, though, is just speculation. What we do know is that the store’s epic stock-list has everything from A.P.C. denim for the everyday to Paco Rabanne couture. See the list of the first 76-known brands that the store will carry below (we’re sure they’ll be more), and we’ll be sure to catch you at the opening.

 

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Dover Street Market New York opens at 160 Lexington Avenue on Saturday, December 21 from 11 AM – 9 PM.

Image courtesy of Dover Street Market.