One thing I took away from the Project trade show is a reinforced concept of grandpa chic. Like my post on Klein Tools, everything old is new again. Case in point, the Norwegian Galoshe company Swims. The founder/designer of Swims got the great idea to reinvent the Galoshe after wearing a pair that his grandfather [...]
I can’t get enough of the Argentinian born and Swedish raised singer songwriter José González. His latest album In Our Nature is so soothing and melodic, I can listen to it over and over and never get enough. His voice and acoustic guitar on the track Down the Line are simply perfect.
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This week’s guest blogger on The Moment is none other than Alexander Olch (full disclosure, Olch is a client). Today’s post can be found here.
The guys over at Men’s Vogue put together an amazing feature on movies that influenced men’s fashion. You can see the entire story here.
Some of my favorites below:
Plein Soliel (1960)
The Graduate (1967)
I’m against bags for men. The only real exception is utility. You are a guy and you have pockets, that should work in nearly all occasions. If you have a lot of things you need to move from one place to another - you can use a bag. If you have a laptop, that [...]
Shirts from the GANT Rugger collection.
No brand has reincarnated itself better than the preppy New Haven born GANT. In the past few years they have shaped and polished themselves into a very stylish and smart collection. A few seasons ago, they collaborated with Jeffery Kalinsky on a small offering of shirts that has since become [...]
Las Vegas never fails to amuse me with its outdoor advertising. I remember on one of my first visits in the nineties seeing the signs for the 1-800-DNA-Test companies that help you figure out who fathered your child. Ridiculous. The trend continues with the amazing - Las Vegas style Swiss banking vaults. These Private Vaults [...]
I am out in Las Vegas for the Project trade show. I have a lot of great posts coming soon. Please standby.
Many thanks to Men’s Vogue and The Moment for being the first sites to add A.C.L. to its blogroll.
Artist Theo Jansen has captured my imagination recently with the kinetic sculptures that he calls “Strand Beests.” The wind-powered animated works are released by Jansen on the beach in the Netherlands where they roam around freely. More info from Wikipedia:
Genetic algorithms can be modified to solve a variety of problems including circuit design, and in [...]
I hate fashion trend stories. I hate runway photos for the most part too. I just don’t get much out of them generally. Over the past few years I have had a fixation with “The Ivy League Look” of boxy Sack suits and skinny ties. One of the first posts on A.C.L. was about the [...]
Innovation is usually late to the fashion world. Case in point, the Fashion Calendar finally went online. This season, Amex made a “quantum leap in the game” to quote Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday. The credit-card giant set up cameras all over the tents to broadcast the buyers, editors and the people in all-black [...]
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