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Gareth Pugh Autumn Winter 2015 London Fashion Week
On Saturday 21st February Gareth Pugh returned to the London Fashion Week schedule after 7 years in Paris with a collection marking the 10th anniversary of his brand. The show began with a creepy, hyper-real film in which a model hacked off her long blond hair with scissors, then smeared a red painted cross on her…
4 New Designers For Spring Summer 2015
#01 – ESTEBAN CORTAZAR Colombian-born designer Esteban Cortazar made history in 2002—at age 18—as the youngest designer ever to present at New York Fashion Week. He has since worked as creative director at French Maison Emanuel Ungaro before re-launching his label in 2012 with a highly successful Spring Summer capsule collection for Net-a-Porter. His Spring…
Japanese Design Firm Nendo Has Crafted Art Out of Chocolates
Japanese firm Nendo has created nine pieces of chocolate art to furnish a lounge it designed for the furniture and design show Maison&Objet. The creations look more like miniature sculptures than confectioneries – each one takes on a different shape with distinctive textures, hollow centered cubes, pointed tips and smooth and rough surfaces. The composition of ingredients for all nine designs remains identical and a…
A Tour of New York City's Rarities
Cool Hunting Video: A Tour Of New York City’s Rarities from Cool Hunting on Vimeo. With New York Fashion Week starting earlier this week we wanted to share this video featuring some of the city’s best kept secrets. Produced by Cool Hunting, it includes a bar inside The New York Palace Hotel called Rarities, a…
Be Mine, Valentine
Valentines Day Gift Ideas at 4. From FOB Paris Pocketwatch, Iliana Makri Bracelet, See Mee Silver Heart Necklace, Comme Des Garcon Wallet. Shop for her. Shop for him.
Gareth Pugh To Debut London Retrospective Exhibit
Gareth Pugh has announced plans to stage a retrospective at London’s Galeria Melissa Covent Garden in celebratation of his brand’s 10th anniversary. The show is set to run from February 11th until the end of May. A party to mark the exhibit’s opening will be held at Galeria Melissa located at 43 King Street on February 10th. The…
Raf Simons Unveils Latest Footwear Collaboration With Adidas
Raf Simons has unveiled his latest footwear collection for Adidas, with colours and materials taken from retro astronaut apparel. Simons has updated his range of trainers for the sports brand and introduced two new designs. These are “inspired by vintage astronaut suits and backpacks, moulded and machined details similar to authentic closures, zippers and straps. Shiny versus matte distressed…
Rick Owens Autumn Winter 2015 Collection
Rick Owens’ controversial AW15 collection at Paris Fashion Week saw penis-flashing tunics and peephole flaps in an otherwise monastic line of capes, robes and pea coats. The designer has faced criticism from some quarters but remains unmoved, “I pass classical marble statues of nude and draped figures in the park every day, and they are a vision of sensuality…
Ann Demeulemeester Autumn Winter 2015 Menswear Collection
A little more than a year has passed since Ann Demeulemeester left her eponymous label and so far Sébastien Meunier has remained faithful to the aesthetic code of the brand. “I am slowly starting to add my sensibility, which is very close to the one that shaped the house, but not identical,” said Meunier, whose inspiration…
Haider Ackermann Autumn Winter 2015 Collection
Haider Ackermann unveiled his Autumn Winter 2015 Menswear collection in Paris last Wednesday evening, choosing a dark and elusive backdrop for a collection rich in fabric, colour and texture. Decadent and dandyish, the collection perfectly illustrated Ackermann’s truly virtuoso facility for the extravagant ruche and extraneously decorative. Haider Ackermann is exclusive to 4. Shop the collection…
What to Look For During Paris Men’s Fashion Week
Paris Fashion Week Menswear stared yesterday with 4 favourites Haider Ackermann and Raf Simons featuring on the opening day. Simons used his invitation to make a bold statement, rendered in bright red letters on a fold-out poster: “To the archives, no longer relevant.” Which suggest a new approach for the designer after last season’s nostalgia…
Osman Launch: The Collective, New York
Osman Yousefzada launched the latest edition of his biannual, arts-fashion journal The Collective last Thursday in New York. To celebrate — the British designer whose elegant, minimalist designs have recently been worn by the likes of Beyoncé, Emma Watson, and Kristen Stewart — hosted an intimate dinner with Poppy Delevingne, Alek Wek and Wendy Goodman at…
An Inside Look At Atelier Oslo's Contemporary Norwegian Cabin
One of the latest projects completed by architectural firm Atelier Oslo is a contemporary cabin located in Norderhov, Norway. The modern home sits juxtaposed against the Krokskogen forests that surround the cabin, with its clean lines and wooden exterior paying complement to its natural environment. The cabin is made from plywood and timber, while its interior is tinged with a light…
Matthew Miller Menswear Autumn Winter 2015 At LCM
“I want to destroy everything.” Those were the opening words in Matthew Miller’s show notes, and as a manifesto on his aesthetic it’s pretty accurate. Miller’s fascination with deconstruction has seen him pull all manner of menswear tropes apart in seasons past — the pinstripe suit, the prison uniform, the biker jacket, the army fatigue…
Craig Green Autumn Winter 2015 Show At LCM
Craig Green’s second solo show at London Collections: Men presented his deepest exploration of uniform to date. Experimenting with an array of utilitarian details, the collection expanded upon last season’s themes of restriction and release with a focus on the contrast between protection and vulnerability. Silhouettes ranged from second-skin close, to an almost figure dwarfing…
Introducing Esteban Cortazar
Colombian-born designer Esteban Cortazar held his first show at New York Fashion Week as a 17-year-old, then went on to become the youngest person to helm a Parisian couture house at the age of 23. Born in Colombia and raised in Miami, Cortazar’s introduction to fashion came through the glamorous world of 1990s South Beach…
Corey Arnold Presents Wildlife
Corey Arnold is a commercial fisherman and photographer from Portland, Oregon, USA. His previous photography work has placed emphasis on documenting the unique working environment in which he finds himself. Arnold’s new series Wildlife focuses on the local animal inhabitants of his hometown with Arnold capturing quiet almost intimate moments of animal behavior in the…
The 4 Winter Sale
4’s Winter Sale has reductions of up to 50% on Autumn Winter 2014 Collections. Shop for Men here. Shop for Women here.
Otherworldly Landscapes Made from Junk Food
For Processed Views, photography duo Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman construct sweeping landscapes from highly refined foodstuffs, including sugary breakfast cereals, canned and packaged meats, snack chips, and sweets. For the artists, food carries with it not only a nutritional value but also cultural significance, tied with notions of parenting, care-taking, and nourishment. When our…
Hueso Restaurant In Mexico
Hueso in Mexico’s Guadalajara city, is a restaurant created by celebrity chef Alfonso Cadena and designed by his brother Ignacio Cadena of Cadena+Asociados Concept Design studio. Located in the Lafayette design district of the city, the renovated modernist 1940s house features over 10,000 cast aluminium animal bones that have been mounted on timber blocks to…
