Guntars Asmanis & Brandon Nardini by Mayumi Taka for Pen Magazine

A Labels Affair–Gun­tars Asma­nis and Bran­don Nar­dini step into the Sep­tem­ber edi­tion of Pen mag­a­zine for a col­lec­tions story styled by Taka­fumi Kawasaki. Pho­tographed by Mayumi Taka, the pair wear fall ensem­bles from Bal­main Homme, Valentino, Moschino and Fendi. /​ Hair by Chi­natsu (Image).

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Behind the Scenes with Jean-​​Luc | Paris Fashion Week: Damir Doma Spring 2012

where the light comes from–not enough time to cap­ture the likes of yuri pleskun, jakob hyb­holt, matvey lykov, juan manuel aran­cibia or christo­pher wet­more with their slick back hair and sharp pieces in the back­stage at damir doma but def­i­nitely one of my favourite shows in paris this time if not my favourite !
good news, the label’s pr promised a proper back­stage accred­i­ta­tion for next season :-) …

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Dior Homme Spring 2012 | Paris Fashion Week

The Tai­lored Man–Accent­ing a tai­lored vision with luxe fab­ri­ca­tions, Kris Van Ass­che presents a clean show­ing for Dior Homme’s spring 2012 sea­son. An atten­tive eye to suit­ing is a Dior main­stay, but where this sea­son really shines is Van Assche’s fine exe­cu­tion of the sim­ple basics. Out­side impec­ca­ble tai­lored lines, the col­lec­tion shifts into a func­tional mode with shirt­ing effort­lessly cut from leather and silk. Com­bine the easy shapes with a sta­ble of allur­ing acces­sories as well as the drap­ing of pan­eled out­er­wear and the new spring sea­son is a mod­ern delight.

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Behind the Scenes with Jean-​​Luc | Paris Fashion Week: Issey Miyake

day 2 of paris men’s fash­ion week started for me with issey miyake show­ing at their paris head­quar­ters on the very charm­ing place des vos­ges …
i had already been told that there would be no back­stage access at all so got to the venue ahead to the show time hop­ing to catch a cou­ple of guys out­side of the venue; unfor­tu­nately for me (and for you), either the mod­els were so well treated that very few felt like escap­ing even just for cou­ple of min­utes or most of them were just sleep­ing while wait­ing for the show to begin because of a very early call time, so i only man­aged to snap very few guys includ­ing benoni loos and george bar­nett before the 1st guests arrived …
just like yes­ter­day for the mugler show i was then think­ing i’d be able to sneak into the back­stage after the show to take a cou­ple of atmos­phere pic­tures but again it was a no since the label’s staff was already clear­ing the space with­out any delay to make room for immi­nent sales appoint­ments … not much luck either with mod­els rush­ing out after the show except for gun­tars asma­nis and isaac carew who didn’t have to run to the next …
sorry guys if it wasn’t a very suc­cess­ful one but it’s not always easy to work out a behind the scenes story when you can’t actu­ally go behind the scenes and you are not there to play the street-​​peeper just like all those the sar­to­ri­al­ist wannabes chas­ing the attendees !

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Issey Miyake Spring 2012 | Paris Fashion Week

Cut with Love–Issey Miyake has a ten­dency to grav­i­tate towards the more relaxed pro­por­tions, but this sea­son the label really lets the sil­hou­ettes out. Craft­ing a relax­ing col­lec­tion con­sist­ing of sep­a­rates in large drawn out shapes and a myr­iad of col­ors, Issey Miyake’s man achieves a new chic. Dressed by irreg­u­lar gra­di­ents and graphic prints, a com­fort­able lineup boasts an organic spirit. From sheer white trousers that effort­lessly bil­low to affected pleats and length­ened shirt­ing, Issy Miyake reveals one of spring’s inspir­ing lineups.

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DNA Boys by Daniel Clavero for The Fashionisto

Miles wears tank top Cam­paign Homme, glad­i­a­tor skirt The Leather Man NYC,
shoes VANS, under­gar­ments Model’s Own

It’s in the DNA–Hot on the heels of our Request story, we share a love for DNA’s fashion-​​forward lot. Wear­ing humor on their sleeve, Axel Bror­son, Christo­pher Lan­don, Gabe Byer, Gun­tars Asma­nis, Luca Vig­orelli, Mark Bland, Miles Gar­ber and Peter Bruder gather for a quirky story pho­tographed by Daniel Clavero. Truly a team effort, the work of makeup artist Marni Bur­ton, hair styl­ist Mylo Car­rion and styl­ist Angelo DeSanto come together with the illus­tra­tions of Natalia Jhete for an infec­tious out­ing of zany fun.

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