It’s about time he got included. Nobody has floored me like he has. A true genius.

Lovely back from Acne.

Rock chic dressing. Real dressing.

Legendary art director.

By Christian Astuguevieille. (Also creative director of the Comme des Garcons perfumes since the beginning).

The legendary magazine that lasted 14 issues.

Richard Avedon.

The vision in Balenciaga’s menswear spring 2011 is nothing short of visionary.

The same quality as a Dutch still life.

Style icon Edwige Belmore. 

Maria Blaisse‘s rubber hats for Issey Miyake.

BLESS. Celebrating Ten Years of Themelessness: N° 00 – N° 29.

Out of print – if anyone sells, I will buy. Besides, Sternberg Press has the best book covers ever, and ranges in publications from Bernhard Wilhelm to Adorno.

More at Selectism.

Gia Carangi was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. After she became addicted to heroin, Carangi’s modeling career rapidly declined. She later became infected with HIV and died at the age of 26. Her death was not widely publicized and few people in the fashion industry knew of it.

A camera follows model Christy Turlington through the spring fashion shows in Milan, Paris, and New York one year in the early 1990s.

The Centurion Card, known informally as the black card, is a charge card issued by American Express. To become a Centurion cardholder, one must meet American Express’s strict eligibility criteria. American Express does not publicly disclose the requirements for getting a card.

Hussein Chalayan’s 2009 spring/summer collection. Old, but classic nonetheless. Where J.G. Ballard’s Crash is cerebral and pop art and John Chamberlain’s automobile usage is corny, Hussein Chalayan manages to make something so sexy and graceful, as if burning hot metal was draped on the model’s body. SICK.

Oh. Oh. Oh.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8un30_cosmic-wonder-light-stream-centre-s_creation

Good jewelery, good style.

Arthur Cravan was known as a pugilist, a poet, a larger-than-life character, and an idol of the Dada and Surrealism movements. After his schooling, during World War I, he travelled throughout Europe and America using a variety of passports and documents, some of them forged. He declared no single nationality and claimed instead to be “a citizen of 20 countries”. Cravan set out to promote himself as an eccentric and an art critic, though his interest was showing off a powerful, striking personal style rather than discussing art. He staged public spectacles and stunts with himself at the centre, once acting on the front of a line of carts where he paraded his skills as a boxer and singer, although he never pursued either of these activities on stage with anyone else.

He’s a master of the vanishing act and reinvention. First he dressed the stars at the Oscars, then he sold art to the rich, and now he’s a movie director. Every time he disappeared and changed his name, leaving behind a trail of suspicion. Read the story here.

The Selby shoots Cecilia Dean in the Visionaire office.

Lou Doillon.

Egoiste magazine. If anyone is selling issues, I’m buying.

Encens is a fashion magazine who present a very selective number of designers, edited by Samuel Drira and Sybille Walter.

Sublime menswear from Patrick Ervell

Simon Foxton. British stylist.

A true artist.

Rene Gruau.

Swedish model.

Nice frames from Han Kjobenhavn.

Fall/Winter 2010.

Margaret Howell ads are the BEST.

Thanks to my man Justin JJJJound for the shout out at BLEND.

Christopher Kane.

Nicholas Kirkwood

Gene Krell of Vogue Nippon.

Helmut Lang is known for his minimalist, deconstructivist, and often severe designs. His fashion house became famous in the late 1980s for its simple but refined designs, its slim suits in black or white, its denim collection, and the use of high-tech fabrics.

Miss you.

One of my favorite looks from Lanvin’s spring 2011 menswear.

Anouck Lepere looks good in this middle of the road style excersise. Watch the video here.

Librissime, best Montreal bookstore for arts books.

Japanese store carrying Carol Christian Poell, Martin Margiela, m.a+, Label Under Construction, Rick Owens, Dries Van Noten, Balenciaga, Ann Demeulemeester, Guidi, Stephan Schneider, Giorgio Brato, Jas MB, Lumen et Umbra.

Lurve magazine.

Man About Town.

Massaro, whose shoes fetch 3,000 euros ($4,000) a pair, takes pride in the traditions of his craft, even using the old pedal-operated sewing machines from his father’s era.

Matsuda 2809, the glasses Linda Hamilton wore in Terminator.

Polly Allen Mellen has been a stylist and fashion editor for more than 60 years at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.

Ranya Mordanova. The only model working on the scene that interests me.

Martin Muelder. Dutch photographer who shot for Purple, 10 Magazine, French Vogue, Fantastic Man, Muse, and The Last Magazine.

Lucas Ossendrijver.

Lucas Ossendrijver, the 37-year-old Dutch-born Lanvin men’s wear designer, has an international resume to rival most diplomats. After graduating from the Fashion Institute Arnhem (ex alumni include Ossendrijver’s compatriots Viktor & Rolf), he skipped from Kenzo, to the German-Greek Kostas Murkudis, and then to Dior Homme in the Hedi Slimane years, before being charged in 2006 with translating Alber Elbaz’s success at Lanvin to the men’s market.

Yup!

Don’t know why he wasn’t up here yet. Too obvious?

Antony Price is a London fashion designer who is best known for glamorous evening wear and suits, and for the seventies icon of the cap sleeve t-shirt (trading under the Plaza label for the premium price of £6, this was quickly ‘ripped off’ by numerous other manufacturers). Price has collaborated with a number of musical performers, including David Bowie, Steve Strange, and Duran Duran, but is best known for his close working relationship with Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, whose respective ‘looks’ were defined by Price’s designs.

Robert Rabensteiner, L’Uomo Vogue fashion editor. Such masculinity and softness at the same time. Sick!

AMAZING.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ5Hbxb-sh4

A woman of taste and influence: In the first of an occasional series about insiders who have subtly changed the course of fashion, Irene Silvagni, one of the most idiosyncratic editors to have worked at French Vogue, talks about her long career, and her passion for photography.

Isolated Heroes book shot by David Simons.

Hedi Slimane’s perfume for Dior, 2004.

Koji Tatsuno, Japanese fashion designer.

New book from Wako Books and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Still one of my favorite models.

Ralph Vaessen. Great eyewear.

Model

Film from 1971 with then supermodel, Veruschka von Lehndorff.

Henrik Vibskov. A/W 2010. Keeping his brilliant signature cuts. What you wear before you graduate to Dries.

Diana Vreeland’s autobiography. The best guide ever to PERSONALITY.

A look from Alexander Wang’s pre-fall 2010 collection.

Great look.