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4 Instagram Takeover With Xeina Almsallam
From 8th – 15th May we’ll be welcoming Xeina Almsallam to 4 as she takes over our instagram and snapchat (four_store) channels. Xeina, the visual director & project manager at Khaleejesque Magazine will be bringing her unique visual approach to both feeds. Visit her website here and her instagram feed here.
4 On Farfetch: A New Way To Shop With Us
You can now purchase from 4 through the international fashion website Farfetch.com. 4 has been selected as one of three Kuwaiti stores to launch with the site and we’ll be uploading new items regularly. Shop the womenswear collection here and the men’s collection here. Images below from top to bottom are: Rick Owens Lilies pleated dress Haider Ackermann…
Abasi Rosborough Editorial: Diaspora
Abasi Rosborough present Diaspora, the 16th edition of their editorial series and featuring their Spring Summer 2015 collection. The designers draw inspiration from their own military and athletic backgrounds, and propose progressive menswear for the 21st century through the lens of versatility, function, and ergonomic innovation. The distinctive silhouettes are fabricated using only natural textiles…
Rick Owens Opens New Store In Hong Kong
Rick Owens opened a new store in Hong Kong last week. The store, which houses his men’s, women’s, and DRKSHDW collections and accessories, is sleek, thoughtful, and brimming with unexpected details—the most noticeable being a glass-top table supported by a very realistic Rick Owens mannequin. Of the store design, Owens explains, “I’ve designed the store…
Highlights of Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2015
Last week the city of Milan celebrated its 54th annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the renowned design and furniture fair. The fair (14th-19th April) is widely considered the global benchmark for the Home Furnishing Sector bringing more than 300,000 visitors to the city. Highlights this year came from Lee Broom with the London-based designer transforming a street of disused…
Fido Dido x Études Studio Spring Summer 2015 Capsule Collection
Parisian label Études Studio and Fido Dido have teamed up for a capsule collection for Spring Summer 2015. Inspiration for the line is drawn from celebrating the 30th anniversary of the popular animated character Fido Dido.A simple black and white graphic motif has been extended to various silhouettes ranging from oversized tees, sweaters, collar shirts, and an all-over…
A picture is worth a thousand words… Raf Simons' Photo Album
Belgian menswear designer, Raf Simons does not like the spotlight—he’s said, “If I could choose to be anonymous, I would be”—which is what makes the personal family photos he shared with Another Man recently so interesting. Simons revealed images of his parents, holidays, and early career with the publication, and outlined why each photo was relevant or…
Where I See Fashion: An Unusual Fashion Blog by Bianca Luini
Taking the form of a digital diary filled with entries that reference anything from photography and design to nature and fashion, Where I see Fashion is a blog by Bianca Luini that has managed to attract more than 400,000 readers on the lookout for inspiration through visual stimuli. Having graduated from the Politecnico di Milano with a degree in fashion design, Luini began looking…
4 Highlights From Fashion Month
#1 GARETH PUGH, 21/02/15 LONDON This season, Gareth Pugh returned to the London Fashion Week schedule, after seven years in Paris. Coinciding with a retrospective at London’s Galeria Melissa in Covent Garden celebrating 10 years of his eponymous label, his Autumn Winter 2015 show featured a spectacle of silhouettes, furs, metallics, sequins, leathers and billowing silks. Matthew Stone’s…
Faye Toogood Designs Gender-Neutral Retail Space For London’s Selfridges
Selfridges has opened a concept retail space free from gender directives at their London store. Created by designer Faye Toogood, a metal framework and mesh panels mark out linear spaces on two floors of the Oxford Street store for the new Agender initiative – an experiment to provoke conversation about gender targeting in fashion and…
Forme d’Expression
“Quietness is the word that keeps resurfacing in my mind when I think of Forme d’Expression. There is quietness in its fabrics. They are luxurious, but never luxe. There is quietness of design; even when Park’s pieces are dramatic, and some of them definitely are, there is a certain restraint to them.” Eugene Rabkin has…
Peeling Back the Layers of Boris Bidjan Saberi
Boris Bidjan Saberi — a Persian-German designer based in Barcelona — launched his eponymous men’s label in 2007. With his multicultural background, he describes his design philosophy in terms of hybrids, such as “secular spirituality,” “metropolitan religion,” and “elegant sloppiness.” Saberi is known for his blending and layering of natural fabrics like cotton and felt with…
Q&A With Abdul Abasi and Greg Rosborough of Abasi Rosborough
Abdul Abasi and Greg Rosborough created their Abasi Rosborough label as a response to what they perceived as a staid conservatism in the menswear market. Now in its fifth season, Abasi Rosborough applies architectural precision to familiar aesthetic touchstones and global traditions. In this Q&A the designers speak about conservative menswear, design fundamentals, the importance of…
Each X Other Autumn Winter 2015 Collection At Paris Fashion Week
Each x Other Fall/Winter 2015-2016 from EACH OTHER on Vimeo. Each x Other continued its pursuit of the concept ‘Art meets Fashion’ by presenting its first runway show at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Music lies at the heart of this collection, which has been created in close collaboration with the conceptual band Liquid…
Piero Fornasetti Retrospective Exhibition Opens In Paris
Paris Fashion Week may have finished but in the wing of the Louvre that houses the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the finishing touches are being put to an extensive retrospective dedicated to the prodigiously prolific Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988). Piero Fornasetti La Folie Pratique originally debuted at the Milan Triennale but has now…
Rick Owens Autumn Winter 2015 Collection
Rick Owens delved into the otherworldly for his Autumn Winter 2015 womenswear show at Paris Fashion Week with a collection that took all of his tribal, primal, sci-fi and creaturesque hallmarks and showed them off as one – an evolutionary offering of the Rick Owens woman. There were combinations of swathes to stiff shapes, sandy sack-style dresses,…
Vetements Autumn Winter 2015 Collection
The mysterious Vetements label held their Autumn Winter 2015 show last week in a louche nightclub — the formerly infamous leather bar Le Dépôt — with Kanye West, in Vetements hoodie, a notable guest. The collection built on last season’s ideas of oversized, larger than life cuts, with the show notes pointing to a more alternative…
Dark Layers From Thamanyah Autumn Winter 2015
Dubai-born designer Ahmed Abdelrahman has unveiled the latest collection from his Thamanyah label. Having worked under Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy, the newcomer branched out on his own in 2011, his first pieces driven by a desire to create a traditional Middle Eastern wardrobe to be worn in a contemporary context. Clearly influenced by Owens, who in turn…
Osman Autumn Winter 2015 Collection London Fashion Week
“You always have your reference bag. I just wanted this to be a tight collection,” explained Osman of his Autumn Winter 15 collection which featured a restricted palette of white, red and black. What was missing in terms of colour variation was made up for in texture and ornamentation however with marble brocades, big buttons,…
David Koma Autumn Winter 2015 Collection London Fashion Week
“I wanted to make it a bit more carefree,” said David Koma before his Autumn Winter show at London Fashion Week last Sunday. Koma, who is also the creative director at Mugler in Paris, referenced Pierre Cardin and André Courrèges as inspirations for his Autumn Winter 2015 collection and this could be seen in the minidresses,…
