Designer Feature | Yang Li

It has been a while com­ing, but get­ting back to our fea­ture series, our lat­est addi­tion is a piece on Yang Li. A grad­u­ate of Cen­tral St. Mar­tins, Li is cur­rently at work under Raf Simons, but that does not stop him from con­tin­u­ing to develop his own vision. Click here to read more about Li and his cap­sule col­lec­tion enti­tled “Cover”.

Feature — Anzevino & Florence Fall 2009

The lat­est fea­ture is a brief Q&A with William Anzevino of Los Ange­les based label, Anzevino & Flo­rence (AZFN). The fea­ture cov­ers every­thing from AZFN’s new store to Anzevino’s design phi­los­o­phy and views on menswear in gen­eral. View the fea­ture here. View the look­book images that did not make the fea­ture after the cut.

Chris Holzinger Continued…

As promised in this past Friday’s fea­ture post, here is the remain­ing por­tion of the Q&A with Berlin based designer, Chris Holzinger:

The Fash­ion­isto: If your label was a per­son, what would they be like?

Chris Holzinger: Work­ing on col­lec­tions, I don’t relate to spe­cial human char­ac­ter­is­tics or par­tic­u­lar tar­get groups. I rather attach cer­tain attrib­utes to my design pieces like wear­a­bil­ity, qual­ity, reli­a­bil­ity, func­tion, dis­pas­sion and eter­nal­ness. It is impor­tant to design clothes which are always wear­able and which are easy to recom­bine with diverse fash­ion style move­ments and col­ors. It’s really impor­tant to me that my clothes guar­an­tee mobil­ity and flex­i­bil­ity in dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions dur­ing daily routine.

Latest Feature — Chris Holzinger

The lat­est fea­ture is a piece on emerg­ing Berlin designer Chris Holzinger.  Click here to view the story, Q & A, and fea­tured looks from Holzinger’s fall 2009 col­lec­tion, “Two Steps For­ward, One Step Back”.  Check back Mon­day for the remain­ing part of the Q&A that did not make the fea­ture. To view the two pre­vi­ous posts of look­book images from Chris Holzinger, click here.

Feature Label — Rochambeau Spring 2009

Intro­duc­ing Rocham­beau

Recently fea­tured in February’s Sur­face Mag­a­zine as one of the top ten design­ers to watch and already in stores like Oak, New York based label Rochambeau’s future looks bright. The team behind Rocham­beau con­sists of Michael Venker, Joshua Cooper, and Lau­rence Chan­dler. Meet­ing at the 2007 Par­sons senior the­sis show, where Venker had been the recip­i­ent of the pres­ti­gious Golden Thim­ble award, the trio real­ized that they shared a love for the same design aes­thetic. Form­ing Rocham­beau, which is Egypt­ian for the game rock-​​paper-​​scissors, each of the trio brings their own strength to the label. With a fam­ily back­ground in the print indus­try, Cooper and Chan­dler, both 24 bring expe­ri­ence and rela­tion­ships within the fash­ion indus­try. Serv­ing as cre­ative direc­tor, Min­nesota native Venker, 26 is respon­si­ble for the design por­tion. Venker is a sea­soned designer hav­ing interned at Marc Jacobs and Hel­mut Lang as well as work­ing at the Ermenegildo Zegna showroom.

Spring 2009 — The Debut Collection

Rochambeau’s debut col­lec­tion is inspired by the Japan­ese archi­tect Kengo Kuma. Clean lines and sil­hou­ettes are livened with unex­pected details that allow each piece to be worn in a unique fash­ion. Effort­lessly draped, fab­rics like cot­ton twill, knits, silk wools, and Pima cot­tons are used to “cre­ate struc­tured and mal­leable looks that seem to fall into place organically.”

Feature Label: Potipot Island /​ Potipoti Spring 2009

Potipot is a remote island get­away located near Metro Manila. The small island was the inspi­ra­tion for potipoti’s spring line. The col­lec­tion cap­tures the exoti­cism of the trop­ics. This season’s color palette is aquatic, yet the col­lec­tion still remains quite graphic.  Bear­ing in mind that potipoti’s design duo, Sil­via Sal­vador and Nando Cornejo have a back­ground in Fine Arts, it is not a sur­prise.  The studio-​​label, cre­ated in 2005 com­bines the best of “fash­ion, graphic design, visual arts, and prod­uct design.” It is this sense of inter­re­lated arts, that make potipoti so com­pelling as a cloth­ing label. Instead of mere clothes, a story is sure to accom­pany each col­lec­tion.  Nando Cornejo was gra­cious enough to share this season’s story.

How did your inter­est in fash­ion begin?

We actu­ally both stud­ied fine arts, but we have always been attracted to fash­ion, par­tic­u­larly to tex­tile design and stamp­ing, so we’ve been grad­u­ally tak­ing steps to reach the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion by design­ing col­lec­tions every 6 months.

What is your fash­ion background?

We are self-​​taught, we like the phi­los­o­phy of do it your­self. At the end of 2005, we began to exhibit our draw­ings in empty premises in Berlin. We held par­ties. Peo­ple didn’t buy pic­tures, but they did buy skirts and shirts. That’s how it all began.

Per­son­ally, what are your own shop­ping habits?

We really like buy in small shops with char­ac­ter and we don’t like shop­ping malls. We usu­ally buy through inter­net too.

What design­ers do you like?

Wal­ter Van Beiren­donck, El Del­gado Buil, Hen­rik Vib­skov, Peter Jensen, Bjork & McElligott…

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