Design Your Own Suitsupply Custom Made Coat

Embrace the sartorialist in you with Suitsupply’s newly launched  Custom Made Coats program. Alongside Custom Made suits, jackets, trousers and shirts, Suitsupply’s comprehensive tailoring program now allows you to create your own coat from scratch. I know - I’m a customer who can attest to the quality of the fabric, the tailoring, fit and the overall, custom made experience.

Choose from 17 fabrics from world renowned Italian mills and personalize it with countless design and detail options. You will also select your style and coat detailing. And don’t worry, the Suitsupply design specialists are there for you. Seriously, they are well versed and well-educated about the brand. While it may be overwhelming to make so many design choices, Suitsupply will be with you every step of the way. You’ll walk out a dapper man. Additionally, there is a gratifying feeling knowing the garment was made specifically for you. It’s truly all about the fit. And a good fit, partnered with the best fabrics, impeccable tailoring and great style make for a winning combination.

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BALMAIN Pre-Fall 2021 Menswear

Exaggerated shoulders, pattern on pattern and pastels make up the Balmain man for pre-Fall 2021. Creative director, Olivier Rousteing, who’s been with the brand for 10 years next February, set aside his maximalist ways and gave us clean lines, no bling. But as always, Olivier Rousteing gave us fashion! And we love and thank him for that! And for the tennis enthusiast, there’s something for you as well.

“It’s a collection for morning-to-evening, and it’s a collection that is about taking care of yourself,” said the 35 year old Olivier Rousteing. “But when I say taking care of yourself I mean by going outside your home and doing what you enjoy. We’ve all been taking care of ourselves by staying in our homes, staying in pajamas, robes, hoodies. But maybe let’s think about the idea of going out, seeing people we haven’t seen for months, and taking pleasure in seeing and being seen.” He went on to say, “There is a lot of nostalgia in the collection,” Rousteing observed: “I tried to go back to when there was more happiness in fashion.”

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DIOR MEN Pre-Fall 2021 Menswear

This time last December, Kim Jones’s many fans across the fashion and art worlds were gathered in Miami Beach. His Dior Men show was a Basel-adjacent affair, complete with a walk-through of the new Rubell Museum. The pandemic scuttled plans to stage a show in Beijing for Jones’s latest outing—there was a livestreamed video and a screening party at the city’s Phoenix International Media Center instead—but in every other way, this collection is just as ambitious as that pre-COVID occasion.

The coronavirus crisis shuttered businesses across New York City this year. Still, even on the quietest days of the summer, there was a line outside SoHo’s Dior Men store. Jones has a phenomenon on his hands; there are similar lines in Los Angeles and other cities. “People like to feel part of a gang, only now because of social media it is much more global,” he said on a Zoom call. These off-season collections feed that global excitement.

Last year, Jones revealed a colorful collaboration with Shawn Stussy, the streetwear OG. This season, he tapped Kenny Scharf, an American artist who emerged from the 1980s East Village scene, making street art alongside his friends Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. “The fun and the energy of that time—you see young kids being excited by Kenny Scharf’s work. It’s speaking across generations,” Jones said.

Scharf’s canvases can now fetch up to six figures, but he still has street cred: Via “Karbombz,” a public art project, he’s tagged upwards of 300 cars with his imaginary creatures—all for free. Together, the designer and the artist selected contemporary pieces and older ones to reproduce, including When the Worlds Collide, a 1984 canvas in the Whitney’s permanent collection. Scharf also designed 12 Chinese zodiac signs for the show’s knits and underpinnings, and, of course, he had free rein to reinterpret the Dior logo.

“I just wanted it to be a very full-on version, using specific techniques to recreate his work in really beautiful ways, to make it even more Pop,” Jones said. In some cases, the Dior ateliers were joined by Chinese artisans who rendered Scharf paintings in delicate seed embroideries. Silhouette-wise, Jones’s instinct was to soften his distinctive tailoring and give it a more lounge-y attitude. Jackets are belted like robes and pants are easy; some of the models wear Oblique-patterned slippers. We are still locked in, after all.

Answering needs or triggering desire, Jones erases distinctions between high and low, and his roving eye sees heroes in all places. This season he invited the DJ Honey Dijon to the party, and she enlisted Lady Miss Kier to record a Dior-ified rendition of Deee-Lite’s megahit “What Is Love?” The intergalactic vibe of the runway video was partly inspired by Jones’s interest in The Mandalorian. “I thought it was fun to bring all these things together in a time when it’s quite negative, and to have a bit of optimism,” he said.

Scharf, whose first show was at New York’s Fiorucci boutique in 1979 and earliest fashion hookup was with Stephen Sprouse, is the perfect Jones collaborator. His work gleefully obliterates boundaries too. “I’m one of the inventors of all that,” Scharf said on a call from his L.A. studio. He raved about Jones: “He’s a listener, he’s a learner, and that shows. He went really deep into what I’m doing.” Those lines outside Greene Street seem only bound to grow.

Source: VogueRunway/Nicole Phelps

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Alcantara Unveils Special Capsule Collection with Lanvin en Bleu and the Lanvin Collection in Tokyo

Alcantara recently introduced a fall/winter capsule collection in Japan in collaboration with Lanvin and its licensed Lanvin en Bleu and Lanvin Collection brands. The new fashions include 30 different looks featuring "Made in Italy" luxury material from Alcantara. Yukihiro Takahashi, a highly regarded Japanese musician, and Tomoki Sukezane, a Japanese fashion editor and stylist, played roles in the collection's runway-show introduction.

Alcantara, Italian luxury brand and recognized around the world as the Italianness Ambassador, has released a total of 30 looks which include the signature of the 2 different outerwear, and 28 looks of both men’s and ladies. The values of tailor-made and craftmanship were applied to the exclusive new collection designed by Lanvin with a mix of sensoriality, beauty and functionality that celebrate this unique marriage.

The Italian Company creates for this collaboration an exclusive metallic printed material with the Lanvin’s brand logo and beautiful dyed off-white material used for a frilled dress.

Over coats, suits and pants play the central role of this incredible capsule collection.

“We are very pleased to collaborate with Lanvin for the realization of the Autumn/Winter 2020/21 capsule collection. An extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the versatility of Alcantara, able to combine tradition and innovation with the Italian lifestyle. The values of the tailor-made and of the global lifestyle, which have always inspired the strategy of our brand, emerge even more in the garments of the collection. However, this is only a step, Alcantara never stops to attract the world.” commented Andrea Boragno, Chairman and CEO of Alcantara S.p.A.

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A Shortcut to the Ideal Pair of Shoes

Looking cool, feeling comfortable, being able to successfully participate in your chosen activity and keeping your feet protected are all trademarks of a successful shoe purchase. However, many people tend to prioritize how a shoe looks over its function, which is a huge mistake.

Pick for Purpose

Buying the right shoe for the intended activity is a big deal, because applying them for the wrong purpose can lead to very premature wear and tear. The main reason for buying the wrong shoes generally comes down to misinformation. Spend wisely and let your shoes last by buying the right shoe for what you want to do – here is how to choose.

How Do I Know It ‘s Right?

Whether you are attending a formal function or trekking through the mountains, each activity will come with its own unique footwear requirements. Value for money is key when selecting a pair of shoes and goes hand-in-hand with durability. If you wear out your shoes long before they would have worn out, if they were used correctly, you are wasting money. Nike Shoes don’t have to be expensive to give you value for money – as long as they serve your needs for the duration of time that you need them for (and a bit more, if you’re lucky) you got yourself a good deal.

Where Are You Going?

The terrain in which you are active is highly likely to have an impact on the wear and tear of your shoes. A standard city environment is less likely to wear out your shoes than regular hiking is, so make sure you adapt your footwear to your environment. If you are drawn to activities that keep you on your feet for a long time, you will have to adapt your footwear to that activity, or risk fatigued, swollen, painful feet.

Try, Try and Try Again

Trying on the shoe that you like is just the beginning. Done right, a pair of shoes can become a long-term relationship, and you do not want the time you spend on your feet to be uncomfortable. If you wear purpose-built footwear, you will have a much easier time – solid, heavy hiking boots with plenty of cushioning will serve you well out on the trail, but are impractical in an urban environment. Similarly, thin-soled, light sneakers are great for a general stomp about town but will leave you in the lurch when you attempt more physically demanding activities.

A quick hack to boost the comfort level of any pair of shoes, is to add a removable insole to the shoe. Not only does it create another softening layer, but it also compensates for any firmness that might be lost over time.

The bottom line? Check the manufacturing quality and sturdiness of any pair of shoes that interest you and weigh up the price according to your expectations of the shoes. If you believe you can get mileage you need at a price that you are happy with, you will be in the perfect purchase scenario!

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