Despite a very short record of menswear, Marni is quickly  carving its niche in the market. Graphic, simple silhouettes, with great details continue to be Marni’s signature spirit, even for menswear. Loving to color blocking on the pants and shorts and the pop of color on the collars.

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Hardly ever do I skip over reviewing a Dries Van Noten menswear collection, and S/S 2012 is no exception. The collection is relatively simple with some great geometric color-blocking to give the looks an extra push. We are starting to see more and more of this shorts over pant look in menswear and I feel though the idea may sound a bit too edgy for most, it looks totally effortless when done well.

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I just came across this beautiful color blocking editorial from German Vogue’s October 2010 issue photographed by Sebastian Kim. I absolutely love the retro vibe, hair, wardrobe and colors. Check out the entire editorial on Papermode.

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For as long as I have followed fashion Jil Sander has been a staple in setting the standard in my eyes. This SS 2011 Raf Simmons continues the houses legacy of pure, minimal but highly inspired forward fashion. There was nothing conservative about Simmon’s palette, “A mille-feuille of color,” as he best stated it. The colors infusing the collection with a vibrancy that I really did not feel anywhere else during Milan Fashion Week. (...) Read More about JIL SANDER : MILAN SS 2011 (12 words)

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Colors are Malene Landgreen‘s vocabulary, and when it comes to color blocking we totally understand what she means! Landgreen has moved far beyond the conventional frames of painting in Denmark with the wall exhibition in Kunsthal Charlottenborg. It’s through her relations to volume and colors that she ‘speaks out’.(...) Read More about Malene Landgreen Color Slate Walls (80 words)

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It seems that Alice Dellal loves to do cool, underground lookbooks, after the great Dominic Jones Jewelry – here she is for one of our fave UK brands David David. By now you should know we like this brand a lot. Still riding their color blocking/ psychedelic prints wave and now (finally) available at Seven New York – Also see the preview of their AW09 @ www.daviddavid.co.uk

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With only one collection under its belt, and now after seeing number 2, Fall 09, it is starting to settle in that Julian Louie is here to make a mark.  Having worked with Fransisco Costa at Calvin Klien and Tara Subkoff on Imitation of Christ, Julian is no amateur to the fashion industry. His structural designs however are majorly a reflection of his architecture studies at Cooper union prior to switching to fashion. Julian Louie’s paneling, color palettes, and hardware are very much inspired from modern architecture. There is also a very nice element of contrast throughout the collection, with the juxtaposition of hyper construction of sharp and defined lines and more playful pleated silhouettes.

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Surface Architects won the RIBA award in 2008 for their graphic revival  of a building they designed and built for Birkbeck College’s Centre for Film & Media in Gordon Square, London. The project was completed in February of 2007 for with a budget of £1.15 M for the project. “The college had a particular wish for the Centre to engender a sense of community, even commerciality, and give a strong sense of visual identity – and the architect has interpreted this brief in a wonderfully imaginative and spatially inventive way.”

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“Flash neon lights and body-con sportswear beneath springs gossomar delicacies : sheer brilliance. ”

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