The Atacoma wedges sent shoe lovers into a frenzy when they debuted in Acne’s Pre-Fall ‘09 collection.
Alexa Chung fell particularly in love with them; and the coveted bootie sold out within just a few days after she wore them on her MTV show. So maybe that’s what inspired Jeffrey Campbell to name his knock-off the Alexa?
It’s a well-studied copy. The shape’s exactly the same, the diagonal seaming is spot-on. In fact, the only difference between the two is the transition from the black leather to the silver metal panels. While Acne’s is seamless, Campbell’s has a bit of a divot.
With so many wedge booties out this season, it should be easy to avoid buying a pair based off someone else’s ideas.
We love Housing Works not only because you can always find the best stuff there, but because of all the good work they do.
Their sixth annual Fashion for Action charity event is coming up and they just announced the details. The event, which raises money for homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS, will be co-chaired by Derek Lam and sponsored by Essence magazine.
The four-day affair kicks off with an opening night benefit at the Rubin Museum of Art and continues with a huge public sample sale at the Housing Works Thrift Shop in Chelsea. Over 150 designers have donated $1 million worth of merchandise to be sold at 50-70 percent off retail prices. Hooray! A bunch of new names have been added to the list this year like Acne, Band of Outsiders, Bottega Veneta, Lanvin, and Karl Lagerfeld.
All the details about how you can take part after the jump!
On first glance one might think our posting of this ACNE underwear video (after the jump) is random and out of context.
But given this week’s circumstances - hot boy pops up in new Harry Potter movie, hot boy happens to have been in ACNE’s Spring/Summer underwear video campaign, hot boy’s now famous - we think it’s really important that you familiarize yourself with the start of each and every one of ACNE’s underwear video campaigns so that you never again have to sit through a three hour movie wondering where on earth you’ve seen said hot boy before.
Also, we love ACNE and this video features both clothes and underwear (and he’s nakey at the end, just a warning). Plus it’s Friday, so we don’t really have to explain anything random.
ACNE called these jeans the “Generic Girl Ripped Jeans” because:
1. Generic is the first word to pop into their mind when they picture the $375-ripped-jean-customer?
2. They know they’re kind of late to jump on the roughed up, boyfriend jean bandwagon and are making a point of noting they’re doing the same thing as everyone else?
3. In a moment of self-mockery they’re acknowledging that a Lanvin collab doesn’t necessarily bring in the big bucks and so they’re ditching their Indie-cred for a split second?
4. It’s an inside joke that accidentally made it all the way to Net-a-Porter?
Ga-Ga for Ikielene: Iekeliene Stange gets naked behind a bamboo screen for this pretty awesome editorial, without a stitch of fashion, in the new issue of Velvet. {FashionCopious}
LV Leak: Kanye’s fashion fascination culminates in these strange (alleged) ads for his Louis Vuitton sneakers. {NahRight}
Say What?: The pretty people behind pretty pictures speak which makes the pretty pictures on this blog even prettier. {BackyardBill}
Plastic’s Fantastic:Nylon’s launched their own record label. Their first band? The Plasticines, four French girls with some serious fashion cred. {Nylon}
More to Come: French Vogue’s Emmanuelle Alt is the woman behind Michael Jackson’s dumbfounding day of Balmain and apparently, she has plans to further enhance his wardrobe. {Fashionologie}
Don’t ask us how, but Stockholm-based label Acne has been experimenting with video, which has resulted in the work at left: Boys bouncing on a trampoline. In their undies.
Acne says it’s “creative” and a “film installation” by young British film maker Richard Brandon Cox “inspired by” the Spring/Summer 09 underwear collection.
We say: Does this remind anyone else of that horrible show from years ago on Comedy Central, The Man Show, which always ended with a series of girls jumping on trampolines? (Except much better now, for the obvious reasons.)
Eight months ago, when Lanvin and Acne Denim announced a collaboration based entirely around denim, we thought, “Huh?” But then we remembered that those bright poufs Alber designed for Spring 08 were made of polyester, and decided to file the collaboration under “Maybe” in our heads.
As of now, the results are in on Acne’s site (look by look slideshow after the jump), and we’re kind of half-pleased, half-disappointed.
An example: Though we could see the dress at left on someone like Charlotte York (yes, we went there), the girl would also have to have the bank account to match. The dress is $810, putting it in the middle of the range’s price spectrum. And it’s made of denim.
Is it just us, or does that seem like too much money for a dress that might only live up to its wonder if you get to walk around saying, “Yes, it’s Lanvin”? Because it’s not like it has the same show-stopping quality as those polyester clouds so synonymous with Alber.
Stella, who once announced her retirement from modeling in 1998, has appeared in campaigns for Louis Vuitton, Givenchy and Burberry.
You might remember Kirsten from campaigns for Helmut Lang, Alberta Ferretti, Chanel, Fendi, Louis Vuitton - and Marc. Most recently, she was the face of Acne Jeans this past Spring.
Fun facts: Both were both born in 1970 (making them four years older than Posh), and both are moms. In fact, Stella once shot a Burberry campaign while five months pregnant - now that’s a supermodel.
We’re guessing Marc’s going for a haunting mood to balance out the quirkiness of those fuzzy halo headbands. Stay tuned for images…
Hedi Slimane doing jeans for Diesel might not be the most shocking rumor out there, but it does leave us wondering when denim lines became the new Target.
Though rumors of a Slimane/Diesel collaboration have been circulating for a while, WWD sounds confident the project will materialize soon. Apparently, Diesel owner Renzo Rosso aims to court an even more exclusive customer with the new Red Collection.
We hope the collection includes jeans for girls, too - and that they’re not so skinny we can’t wiggle our way into them.
So now, Alber’s at Acne, Hedi’s at Deisel, and Marc’s already done Wrangler - how about Luella for 18th Amendment?
We’d obviously die over a Lanvin diffusion line - even though we know the clothes would be nothing without the luxurious fabrics and intricate detail that make them so expensive in the first place - but this is probably as close as we’re going to get for a long time.
He announced, “It’s time to go back to a product that has a dream to it. I asked myself, ‘What kind of jeans can I bring that will be a Lanvin jean and Acne spirit infused in one?”
Unfortunately the jeans will be priced similarly to Lanvin’s ready-to-wear, as in they’ll be terribly expensive.
But we can’t wait to see how he works with a material so foreign to a Lanvin runway, not to mention a brand so different than what he’s built at the French house.
The company hopes that by using an older, familiar face, as opposed to using the “youngest, trendiest of faces,” the brand will appear more accessible to the less fashion forward; a strange objective for a brand that’s courted exclusivity so well.
It’s like when Gap put Coco, Chanel and Caroline in their ads and suddenly the fashion crowd was talking about which of their jeans fit best.
We understand the need to appeal to a new customer and we love recognizing older models in new ads. But picking a model who hit her stride twenty years ago, (unless she’s of the Kate, Cindy, Naomi pack), might not be the best approach for this particular goal.
Because really, who’s going to recognize Kirsten Owen in a new denim ad? The fashion-obsessed girls who spent their teens flipping through Vogue and learned about Acne denim in NYLON years ago? Or the girl who couldn’t care less about which model represents her favorite brand of jeans?
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The Atacoma wedges sent shoe lovers into a frenzy when they debuted in Acne’s Pre-Fall ‘09 collection.
