Todd Selby of The Selby fame has put together a nice video about a man who owns and operates one of my favorite places in New York, Libra Leather. Mitch Alfus is the man who runs the show over there on West 30th street, Libra stocks some of the most amazing skins I've encountered as well as having an unbelievably knowledgeable and helpful staff.
I've just wrapped up my first week at my new job. Info about it will be coming soon. It's been really a great experience so far.
Robert Geller is invading Odin's Den starting tomorrow. I am extremely excited for this as Geller is one of my favorite designers. This is a much check out as Geller's California inspired spring summer line will be presented. Odin did a great minimalist house dark wood house frame build in Den to complement the collection. Go there and get blown away, I will.
Den is on E. 11th Street in between 2nd & 1st Ave in the East Village for more information check here.
Yea thats right we've gone bloggin' over at First Among Equals, soon enough we'll have product available online for phone orders so check out the extremely simplistic, clean and does what we need it to blog here.
First Among Equals has received it's spring/summer shipment from Pudel the Scandinavian designed, London based collection. Come through and check it out, a great collection with very wearable pieces.
Goodbye Philly, I have moved to NYC. I had some fun in Philadelphia and met some great people while there and look forward to keeping in touch. I'm living with my new boss at his kick ass apartment in the East Village for the time being.
Capsule: Capsule and all the other tradeshows took place last week, and I unfortunately did not look too much but several collections were extremely strong while some were a bit of a disappointment.
Acne had some great stuff on display in their entire room they had on the third floor. Shades of Greige impressed me with a large collection that was very cohesive yet huge variety, oh not too mention they have some of the best pricing on their pieces out of anyone.
Wrath Arcane Expanded their line alot, adding some leather pieces, great waxed cotton jackets as well as stainless steel necklaces. W.A. has solidified them selves over the last year and impressed me with some of the strides they have made in between the past couple seasons and the upcoming FW 08/09 season.
Chronicles of Never Wow, so many pieces looked great, also it was just awesome to see the line well represented in the US. One of my favorite pieces was a black bordered peacoat, very cool piece.
YMC showed some questionable mid top patent leather high tops
Corpus build on their success from the last couple seasons, but I unfortunately did not take too long with line.
B.Son added some color to the line and again did not get much time with the line.
Ok well I don't know what else to talk about, I'm worn out.
I move and begin my job full time next week, I am looking forward to it. Good times, lots of hard work ahead.
The shows are right around the corner, and I'm looking forward to Capsule to see some of the lines making their American debuts this year. Capsule will be followed by a trip to Project which should be decent. But when it comes to mens sportswear Capsule is really getting the best of it. I'll update about everything at the end of the month.
Sophomore is a young company headed up by Chrissie Miller based out of the Lower East Side. Sophomore is a mens and womens line featuring great basics with unique detailing, Sophomore's aesthetic is that of 1970s New York melted into todays look to great something different all the while remaining very subtle. Check out SOPHOMORE HERE
I will be picking one of these up my self:
