paris spring summer 09 - day 4

antonio miró/ lanvin/ bernard willhelm/ wintle/ dior homme/ masatomo/ juun j/ paul smith/ wooyoungmi/ agnès b.

so overall i thought the paris show was kinda lame and disappointing. i thought the milan show was better. saw kva's dior homme collection and it was pretty boring. i think he tried too hard. ooh this is a good line by william miller on almost famous that kris van assche should always think about:

lester bangs: you like the new lou reed?
william miller: the early stuff. the new stuff,
he's trying to be bowie, he should be himself.

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willhelm - someone finally went back to the good ol' gay ages. shouldve gotten woody allen to model one look. i mean, this was all he wore in 'love and death'







smith

paris spring summer 09 - day 3

jeroen van tuyl/ miharayasuhiro/ kazuyuki kumagai (attachment)/ tillman lauterbach/ ann demeulemeester/ armand basi/ smalto/ damir doma/ emanuel ungaro/ petar petrov/ hermès/ raf simons

simons



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deep v-neck douchebaggery to a new level. i actually kinda like this. better as a vest i think.



demeulemeester





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doma

paris spring summer 09 - day 2

unya watanabe man/ blaak homme/ thierry mugler/ kris van assche/ kiminori morishita/ kenzo/ comme des garçons homme plus/ cerruti/ givenchy/ romain kremer/ john galliano

not crazy about today's collections. but here are some that i kinda like

watanabe



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watanabe



hey, i've seen a bunch of these douchy-looking hipsters roaming the streets in the hipster triangle (los feliz, silverlake, echo park). and i can swear that most of those guys who wear the black rim glasses + hat have serious case of receding hairline.

the cuffs are so high it doesn't look so nice to roll em up that high. if i were to show my kankles, i'd cuff my pants an inch or two above.





mugler



blaak



gaultier



galliano - someone made a printed coat! i made mine out of my chem105a lab coat for halloween sophomore year. mine is basically called the book of steve of our RA at college.

i think i like my coat more, because the whole floor residents basically wrote a book about steve and then i transfered the writing onto the coat. plus i dont look like carrot top.



givenchy



i feel like for the milan and paris runway, i keep seeing cropped leggings/ tights underneath the shorts. i always thought that's a pretty neat look but only for cropped leggings that stops just below the knee.

i remember i saw this a month ago on a look book on skeleton legs for the d line by tass standard ss 08. link here >>>. i'm glad other people are catching up.

i was really looking forward to kris van assche's collection but i thought his presentation was weak. so i'm not posting any pics of his. he better deliver dior's runway show tomorrow. then again, what i remember is that his accessories for last year's runway weren't the ones that went into production cuz i dont remember seeing the hi tops i bought on last year's SS08 runway. i'm crossing my fingers.

photos via vogue uk/ fashion job/ model hommes

paris spring summer 09 - day 1

unity/ gaspard yurkievich/ julius/ loius vuitton/ number (n)ine/ jean paul gaultier/ yohji yamamoto/ véronique branquinho/ dries van noten/ henrik vibskov

yurkievich - presented a prada-like tutu/ dress skirt for men. i think i might buy it. maybe i'll buy their whole stock of the dress skirt so that no man in the world will sink that low. srsly. i think 'gender bender' is more masculine looking.



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most of these are the stuff i like from day one. basically i don't really give a shit about the rest of them.

yurkievich









also presented this pre-school uniform for girls on an older gentleman's body. i feel like i'm watching that madeline cartoon or something.



van noten





vuitton







kilgour



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photos via fashion job

stream rock the net cd

sooo one new wrens song in a bazilion years finally emerged. i'm not crazy about this song, but still optimistic about the new album. i've seen them three times or so. they are so sick live. and they're in their 40s too. that should be a lesson to learn, vampire weekend!!!



Rock the Net CD to be released on July 29

01 They Might Be Giants: "We Live in a Dump"
02 Aimee Mann: "31 Today"
03 The Wrens: "Sleep"
04 David Bazan: "Cold Beer and Cigarettes"
05 B.C. Camplight: "Soy Tonto"
06 Portastatic: "Hang Down Your Head"
07 Classic Brown: "Modulation"
08 Guster: "Timothy Leary"
09 Bright Eyes: "I Won't Ever Be Happy Again"
10 Wilco: "Impossible Germany" (live)
11 Palomar: "Red"
12 David Miller: "Sunday Driver"
13 DJ Spooky: "Uganda"
14 Matthew Shipp: "New Orbit"
15 Free Form Funky Freqs: "Ties That Bind"

STREAM ALBUM HERE >>>



photos are mine from their troubadour, we ho show.