STYLEPHILE - VIVENNE WESTWOOD

I <3>

Hot off the runway in Milan.  Dying over everything s/s 10 is going to be HOT! I love how throw together it all looks, but there are so many stand alone pieces that I just want to wear. The textures, the colors, the mood. It just makes me so happy! BRAVO! 

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STYLEPHILE - MUNDI

I was out at a bar the other night, and I couldn't take my eyes off of the most amazing sweater. After a few drinks and no good opportunity to chat with it's owner, I finally had to just flag him over to inquire. He was a nice fellow from Iceland who was all to eager to tell me about MUNDI. 

You know how things come up multiple times, out of the blue and you just know it is a sign? Well, just earlier that evening I was watching the Scripps Spelling Bee and "Reykjavik" was one of the words needing to be spelled. SIGN!

  

This avant g line is so F* fresh! S/S 09 is called Fish and Lionman...So on my radar I can almost hear what is next...

PS: Girls stuff is amazing too!

STYLEPHILE - WARDROBLY

FEELING IS BELIEVING

I do love a good L.A. based clothing line start-up story. It is the most relevant and modern Horatio Alger story to me. I think it takes guts, drive, and talent; each of which seems too rare yet saturated in Lost Angles. To rise to the top takes some skillz, both social and technical. 

Enter Wardrobly into the Arena. Modeled below by creative director Daniel Green, these are some of the best, softest, most luxurious pieces I have tried on in awhile. You'd never know that the team behind the label came from a denim house, as these fabrics are anything but Wrangler! I love the simple de-and-re-construction of it all.

I hope this label has the chops to stick it out. 

STYLEPHILE - J.W. ANDERSON

ONCE UPON A TIME...

Through the looking glass and into the woods, across the seas and over the moors. An English professor once told me that any story ever expressed was either 1) "a journey" or 2) "a stranger comes to town." I believe that fairy tales are both, and every good fairy tale should have a prince charming.

I've always adored the classics as viewed through a modern lens. Reapproaching archetypes with an "if they knew then what we know now" attitude can benefit both our understanding of them and ourselves. 

While trying to be a modern prince charming, it helps to look back at atypical princes and heroes. I attempt this with my jewelry line (You Macbeth) and J.W. Anderson does this with his F/W 09/10 collection. It is completely gorgeous, like a fairy tale picture book of what is yet to come. Take a look and see, then become your own P.C.  

STYLEPHILE - A.P.C. SUMMER 09

EASY DOES IT

Sometimes it's just nice to wear clothes. Easy, clean, fresh, smooth, summer clothes. The kind of clothes you forget you are wearing until you come home at the end of the day smelling like a day well used for leisure and catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and think, "Damn, I looked cute today!" Clothes that when you put them on, they feel hand made, well made, and passed down from a cool older brother. The clothes you get to wear for three months while school is out, and represent freedom and a sun tan.

So much is difficult these days. So much is F*ing going on all the time. Stop thinking about clothes and just put this collection on and eat a Popsicle outside. Ahhhhhh...   

STYLEPHILE - DIRK BIKKEMBERGS

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS

As part of the "Antwerp Six," a lot may be expected of Mr. Bikkembergs, and man did he deliver for Fall! I could never decide if Posh Spice or Sporty Spice was my favorite...seems now I don't have to choose. This collection is like a Bentley doing it with a soccer ball.  I llurve it. It touches on fetish, it oozes luxe. The graphics and colors are great, and the gold trophies along the runway...fuggedaboutit. Its nice to see some sportswear in ready-to-wear.  I'm so ready to break out the track pants. Not ready for fall yet, his Spring collection was kinda hot too. 

Photos: Giovanni Giannoni

Spring

PERV-O-LICIOUS 

Photos: Daniel Guidetti

STYLEPHILE - GAETANO NAVARRA

BEAT THE HEAT

My friends, it is HOT in LA. If you can't make it to any of the hotel pools (Peninsula, Roosevelt, any of the Standards) Try staying cool in these F* hot outfits. The Bologna based designer's Spring '09 collection's inspiration comes right out of Echo Park, Los Feliz and K-Town. Maybe I'm just missing my Vermont Ave. apartment, but these looks really get me going. That tye-dies sweater is phenom...but maybe keep it till the weather dips below a chilly LA 65.

BRRRRrrrrrrr......