Japanese contemporary brand nonnative offers a closer look into their new collection for Fall/Winter 2009. Keeping in tune with their usual brand of designs, the lineup offers a wide array of casual looks and styles, including standout pieces within their outerwear selections. Knits, denim, and footwear round out another impressive seasonal collection, which looks to hit select nonnative retailers this month.
Taking a playful concept to the design table, Los Angeles-based hat purveyors Hall of Fame unveil their latest collection of New Era fitteds. Their “Size” lineup is pretty self-explanatory, featuring raised embroidery with the respective hat size on the front panel. Each is featured in their own two-tone color range, with sizes 7 1/4 – 7 3/4 available. All the peanut heads or big domers are unfortunately out of luck. A release is scheduled for this Saturday, August 7th.
Hall of Fame
Italian footwear label BE POSITIVE has release seveal shoes from their 2009 Fall/Winter collection. Utilizing some interesting materials, these sneakers can be found at BE POSITIVE retailers including Star Cow in Paris.
A Bathing Ape release a wide variety of apparel and accessories for the month of July. Amongst the items are a selection of new graphic t-shirts, raglans, polos, button-downs, and pants paired with various accessories including keychain carabiner wallets, keychains and a couple of footwear pieces in their Birkenstock-esque Lucky Sta sandals. All are now available through Bape flagship locations.
Basics are dubbed so because they work on everyone and crosses all boundaries. The Fall/Winter 2009 Collection from A.P.C surprises us and makes basics a tad less boring and that much more interesting with some skilled mix and match. With simple familiar pieces such as button downs and jackets in various monotones and fundamental patterns, A.P.C created various personas for us– the school boy in sweater layered over button downs and pants; the swanky popular kid in matched orange get up of leather jacket and pants; the sleek trustfund baby in fitted dark denim paired with red shirt and black blazer. The only pieces that are not so basic are the acid washed jeans and babyblue overalls. Surprisingly, when paired with the other pieces from the collection, both items still looked practical and wearable. If you are looking for well-tailored and fitting pieces to go with the rest of your wardrobe, the A.P.C Fall/Winter 2009 Collection is a great way to go, and is now available online through A.P.C.
Newly released from BAPE are some season appropriate suede and leather Chukkah inspired boots. The angled and boxy silhouette is paired with thick cream rubber soles. The words “Manhunt” are embossed onto the leather and suede in basic fall colorways of brown, tan and black. A small logo decorates the side heel panel of the shoes. These shoes look functional and comfortable enough to wear into the wild, but since these are “Manhunt” boots, we suppose they would be more at home for a night out in town.
