Chance | Sweden Collection

The images of the new "Sweden Collection" from Chance embody the impeccable taste and brilliant creative direction for which Julia Leach and her brand have come to be known.  

Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera

The Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera coach building company has been designing, engineering, and manufacturing beautiful and innovative automobiles for over 80 years.  Since 2006, the Milan-based company has released five stellar, handmade Superleggera ("super lightweight") models: 
1. the Mini Superleggera Vision,

2. the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante, 

3. the Touring Berlinetta,

4. the Bellagio Fastback,

5. and the Bentley Continental Flying Star.

Mark McNairy x Woolrich Woolen Mills F/W 2014

You are viewing Mark McNairy's Fall/Winter 2014 collection for Woolrich Woolen Mills. The designer, whose New Amsterdam label continues to gain momentum, took a season-long break from WWM, but is back with woodsman-prep stylings.

Introducing "Grailed Direct"

Unveiled last December, Grailed is an online marketplace for menswear. Listings tend to be high-end, and because items are being resold, prices tend to stay relatively low. 

However, on Wednesday, June 4, at 9am PDT, Grailed will add a new component: Grailed Direct.  Arun and his crew are teaming up with brands and retailers to bring you and yours huge discounts on some excellent threads, including 3Sixteen, Hamilton 1883, Junya Watanabe Man, Maison Martin Margiela, nonnative, Thom Browne, wings+horns, and lots more. All the clothes are brand new with tags and will be around 50% off retail. 

Hamilton 1883. 

Aspesi.

Junya Watanabe. 

Nonnative x Regal.

Vittra Telefonplan | Rosan Bosch

In 2011, the Danish architecture studio Rosan Bosch designed Vittra Telefonplan, a free school in Stockholm without traditional classrooms. The open interiors are meant to reflect the school's educational principals, which encourage students to move about and work in leveled groups in five different learning spaces: "the watering hole," "the show-off," "the cave," "the campfire," and "the laboratory." The layout features an array of custom-made furnishings designed to inspire curiosity and facilitate collaboration.

Hook + Albert | Garment Weekender

The MCM Multi-Functional Travel Bag, which people are still asking about but for some reason MCM has refused to remake, blew the doors wide open. Now Hook + Albert have stepped in with their take on the carry-all/garment bag, which is available in leather and waxed canvas. There's definite potential here. The video below provides the rundown on how it works.

Lissie | "Pursuit of Happiness" Live at Brighton Great Escape (2010)

Diana Vreeland on Surfing

Diana Vreeland (1903-1989), the famed socialite and editor of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, gave the following interview in the early 1980s.

Bob Biggs x Swans | Album Art for "To Be Kind"

Swans just released six images from their upcoming album, To Be Kind, which is due out on May 13. The art is by Bob Biggs, a painter and the founder of Slash Records. Michael Gira, frontman of Swans, offered the following comments about how the art came to be featured in the album:

I first met Bob Biggs in Los Angeles in 1976/77, through friends in the so-called punk scene there. He was a conceptual artist, but like everyone else with a brain, he was enthralled with the sudden and concussive events endemic to the rise of the beautifully scabrous punk explosion at the time. He was “outside” of it (as was I, in retrospect), but also in it, and had a sardonic view of it simultaneously. I distinctly remember him arriving at the infamous (genesis site of LA Punk) Masque Club, with a Semi Truck bearing a a fully grown, mucous-dripping cow, and leading it down a ramp into the club, where it ambled about, shat, and was then led out. I’m not certain what this was supposed to actually mean, but it was a delightful event, nevertheless.

Later, I was at the house of a friend (and a friend of Bob’s), and I noticed an unfathomable image on the wall. It was a pastel of one of the baby images we are now using as the art for the new Swans album. An uncanny visual cipher, and it stuck with me, all these years... I look at Bob’s baby images as something like the Mona Lisa—utterly inscrutable, but ACHING to reach up to the surface. Or like one of Jasper Johns’ flag paintings—I just can’t figure them out, but they keep calling me back.



I recall asking Bob in 1981 or so if I could use one of those baby images for a record, and he said, definitively, NO.

But those images have remained in the back of my head since then, always nagging. It seems they’re always calling me, calling, calling...


I’m delighted that these images, finally with Bob’s consent, can now act as innocent, but implacable sentinels for the music of Swans, after all these years.

.. God Bless Bob Biggs...



via Pitchfork.