Tim Hamilton x Topman Collaboration

I have been busy watching the Euro 2008 games, and forgot to post this item. Tim Hamilton says " rear calf opening, yoke open vents, and button fastening tocreate gathering at the ankle" make these a sweet thing to wear. Pants are 100% wool and available at Topman locations in New York in October and London in August. The pants are set to sell for 65 pounds.

Vintage Clothing

I found some of the best vintage clothing ever on ebay. They have tons of magazines. My favorite thing that the company stocks is "Free and Easy" Japanese fashion magazine. It has some next level vintage-styled pictures of chambray shirts and old-stuff. You can pick up the magazine at most Japanese selling newsstands. I'd keep your eyes out, but afraid to waste gas driving around buy on on ebay.

Fenway Park: Fails Inspection

The article was front page in the Boston Globe today. Almost everyone in the article said something like: "o, I can't believe it". Who the hell are these people kidding? It smells awful in that place, and it has been every game I've been to since 2004.

France vs. Netherlands

This will be the best game of the tournament probably. I'm going to check it out at 2:30, kick-off (I believe) is at 2:45. That is the normal timing for champions league matches.

Germany and Croatia

Croatia just beat Germany. I didn't even think that I would watch the game, but while eating some chips and dip for lunch I turned it on. I enjoyed the game, it offered great football from Croatia, but ended with a "bull-shit" red card. Bastian Schweinsteiger brought a ton of energy to the German side when he came on, but was sent off not too long after. He was tackled from behind, got up, and pushed a Croatian player. The espn 2 commentators are annoying as hell about it. He didn't need to do that. Shut the fuck up. That's what they said about Zidane when he was sent off against Italy, but everyone knows Materazzi is a bitch.

A Continuous Lean: Good Read

I began to read one of my daily morning reads today, and found a very interesting article. It was featured on the website " A Continuous Lean". For those unfamiliar with ACL, a common abbreviation for the site, it is "an informal listing of men’s style, wit and wisdom". The contributing writer & self-editor ,Michael Williams, does an awesome job maintaining the site, and keeping me up to date on awesome reading material especially on menswear. Today, I was really interested in an article he posted about an article from the Wall Street Journal. The company wrote of the decreasing popularity in men wearing ties, but Michael Williams found an editorial to the editor from designer Alexander Olch. Above is the editorial.

Sufjan Stevens dislikes Contemporary Music Genres

Sufjan Stevens has anger towards Vampire Weekend. The once "up and coming" band that I wrote about not too long ago. One of my classmates and friend, Michael Carli, reported the quotation to me.
"Sometimes I worry that the ever-increasing trend toward excessive innovation has pushed the art and music world into a slapstick exhibition of dog breeding, generating increasingly newer, more contemporary fashions: gothic folk, for one. Or Afro-beat Ivy League pop. Maybe this only reflects the inevitable merging of all cultures, in which art slowly becomes a least common denominator for the interchange of multiple civilizations coming together in one song. I don’t mind the intermarrying of ideas. This is the natural sequence of events. We are all better for it; it is fundamentally American. But sometimes the effort of innovation itself is just empty exertion, unspirited and unreal, bearing bad fruit."
The quotation was originally published only a few days ago, but has not really made headlines or anything.
It was originally published in http://asthmatickitty.com/sidebar.php?sidebarID=341

menswear spring/summer 2009 schedules

A new blog has emerged. The name of the blog is "dance boy dance". The blog focuses on a variety of different topics. For instance, fashion, rave music, games, and as Neto, the main writer, would describe it "addicting shit". Feel free to check it out. He has up the entire schedule for men's fashion week.

Below is his latest post. I'd check out everything he has to offer.

"Tuesday, June 10, 2008

menswear spring/summer 2009 schedules

its almost time for menswear runway shows again, this time spring/summer 09. im really eager to see some stuff. i bolded those which im most interested in, anyways, here's the schedules:

Milan SS 2009 21-24 June
21 June
10:00 GAETANO NAVARRA 11:00 C.P. COMPANY 12:00 COSTUME NATIONAL HOMME 14:30 JIL SANDER 15:30 MISSONI 16:15 BURBERRY PRORSUM 17:00CARLO PIGNATELLI OUTSIDE 17:45 LES HOMMES HOMME 18:30 VERSACE19:30 EVISU 20:30 DENIS SIMACHEV

22 June
09:00 BOTTEGA VENETA 10:00 FRANKIE MORELLO 11:00 GIANFRANCO FERRE' 12:00 ROBERTO CAVALLI 13:00 SALVATORE FERRAGAMO 14:00 VIVIENNE WESTWOOD 14:45 ANTONIO MARRAS 15:30 EMPORIO ARMANI 16:15 ALEXANDER MCQUEEN 17:00 NEIL BARRETT 18:00 HAUTE 19:00 PRADA

23 June
10:00 ENRICO COVERI 11:00 BIAGIOTTI 12:00 GUCCI 13:30 DIRK BIKKEMBERGS 14:30 JOHN RICHMOND 15:30 MOSCHINO 16:30 KRIZIA UOMO 17:30 ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA 18:30 M+F GIRBAUD 19:30 GIULIANO FUJIWARA 20:30 ANDREW MACKENZIE

24 June

09:00 MARNI 10:00 ICEBERG 11:00 DSQUARED2 12:00 FENDI 12:45 ETRO 13:45 CALVIN KLEIN COLLECTION 15:30 GIORGIO ARMANI 16:30 GIORGIO ARMANI 17:30 ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA 18:30 Belstaff 19:30 Gazzarini 20:30 Byblos

ParisSS 2009 26-29 June
26 June
10:30 U-NI-TY 11:30 Kilgour 12:30 Gaspard Yurkievich 13:30 Julius 14:30 Louis Vuitton 16:00 Number (N)ine 17:00 Jean Paul Gaultier 18:00 Yohji Yamamoto19:00 Véronique Branquinho 20:00 Dries Van Noten 21:00 Henrik Vibskov

27 June
10:00 Junya Watanabe Man 11:00 Blaak Homme 12:00 Thierry Mugler 13:00 Kris Van Assche 14:00 Kiminori Morishita 15:00 Kenzo 16:00 Comme des Garçons Homme Plus 17:00 Cerruti 18:00 Givenchy 19:00 Romain Kremer 20:30 John Galliano

28 June
10:00 Jeroen Van Tuyl 11:00 Miharayasuhiro 12:00 Kazuyuki Kumagai/Attachment 13:00 Tillman Lauterbach 14:00 Ann Demeulemeester 15:00 Armand Basi 16:00 Smalto 17:00 Damir Doma 18:00 Emanuel Ungaro 19:00 Petar Petrov 20:00 Hermès 21:00 Raf Simons

29 June

10:00 Antonio Miró 11:00 Lanvin 12:00 Bernard Willhelm 13:00 Wintle 14:00 Dior 15:00 Masatomo 16:00 Juun J 17:00 Paul Smith 18:00 Wooyoungmi 19:00 Agnès B.

after bolding the shows i'm looking forward to, i realized most of the shows i really want to see are showing in paris

Posted by neto at 6:17 PM 0 comments

Scoute Magazine

I found a great new men's fashion read. It is scoute. The first issue was published in May, and the writers are typing away with an issue every month. The magazine has a lot of good reads. I found their article "Labeling Labels" extremely interesting. It discussed why some designers have an emphasis on labeling and packaging. In one section, they question whether or not it matters, but then they answer their own question by pointing out that some designers are notorious for their discreet packaging. Do not be worried if you just learned about the magazine. They have an archive, and you will be caught up in no time.