I’m going to go out on a limb and bet that you probably didn’t know that iconic French fashion house Chanel owns a grand cru classé winery. And not just any winery; Chanel owns Château Rauzan-Ségla and is celebrating the vineyards 350th anniversary with an exclusive release of a 2009 Bordeaux with a label designed and signed by [...]

Legendary British luxury menswear house Alfred Dunhill is celebrating the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympic games; which will be held later this year in London, by adding three celebrated Olympians to their Spring / Summer ad campaign. Featuring retired rower and four-time Olympic gold medalist Sir Matthew Pinsent, two-time European Silver medalist and Olympic hopeful gymnast, [...]

“Our goal is to create a different kind of environment. A marketplace that really stimulates creativity and inspires retailers.” – Andrew Pollard, PROJECT, President PROJECT is unlike any traditional trade show that you’ve ever seen. With a focus on creativity, community, and the authenticity of brands; PROJECT brings together emerging talent, brands that we all know [...]

Alber Ebaz and Lucas Ossendrijver are moving fashion forward in a very relevant, wearable way. Where so many shows have paid homage to the past, updated classic looks, or gone far into the future; Lanvin showed what their guy wants to wear now. With a slight nod to the 70′s, Lanvin decided that their guy [...]

   If anyone feared that the workwear trend was waning, Junya Watanabe set those fears to rest with his latest collection for Fall ’12. Utilitarian inspired fashion will be with us for a bit longer. Mr. Watanabe has been in a glorious state of Golden age thinking for several seasons. And to my personal delight, [...]

   It wouldn’t be a good Gaultier show without a lot of highly stylized theatrics and some puzzled head scratching. He is, after all, the famed “enfant terrible.” For his Fall ’12 menswear collection I got the sense that Jean Paul was dressing a cast of roving bandits in some science fiction alternate reality where [...]

The Ports 1961 Fall ’12 collection is the definition of strength in point of view. Ian Hylton wanted to let shape, cut and proportion tell the story of the Ports man. And where some have critiqued the collection for its lack of color, I feel that Mr. Hylton succeeded in his vision precisely because of [...]