TURN IT OUT! SHIRTMAKERS Turnbull & Asser

Turnbull & Asser is a British clothier established in 1885. In addition to its flagship store on Jermyn Street in London, England, it also has two American locations, one in New York City and one in Beverly Hills, California.
Turnbull & Asser is regarded as an exclusive store and has dressed such people as Prince Charles, Sir Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush.[1]. Today, Turnbull & Asser also manufactures some women's clothing. Although extremely traditional outfitters, the company is known for its particularly vivid colours in shirts, knitwear, socks and ties.

In the 1974 film The Great Gatsby, the famous scene where Daisy Buchanan collapses in tears after seeing Jay Gatsby's shirt collection used Turnbull & Asser shirts (with the boxes and name clearly visible), despite the fact that designer Ralph Lauren had made all the other men's clothes in the film.

GENERIC MAN

This is m y man Nitedog(Black Disco) Kevin Carney's line. A talented dude that also produces the ACID HAUS t-shirt line. Vey tasteful dude across the board. He really inspires me. Check his pedigree
the generic story

Originally founded in 1997 in a NYC loft by Kevin Carney, the generic man collection came about in 2006, as Brandon Day and Kevin Carney began what they call “a case study in adultism”, a journey to define what it means to be an “adult” these days. Through a process of research, experience and discussion ‘the generic man’ lifestyle of the “Newdult” took shape.

The Newdult is tiring of streetwear and the high price of luxury. In response, ‘the generic man’ has created thoughtfully priced luxury for this new modern adult.



who is the generic man?

The generic man doesn’t need branding and logos to make him feel confident or stylish. He understand the significance of quality construction and clean, simple, refined lines.

The generic man is confident enough in himself to accept simplicity.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

“If you have an interest in fashion and want to know about London Fashion Week and the British fashion industry, then you must read Style City – you will find everything you need in this book.”
Paul Smith

STYLE CITY
How London Became A Fashion Capital
by Robert O’Byrne
Price: £35
Publication date: 24th September 2009
Consultant: Annette Worsley-Taylor


Chosen by the British Fashion Council as its book of the year as it celebrates its’ 25th anniversary
The definitive book on London Fashion since the 1970s

STYLE CITY is the first book to tell the inside story of how fashion developed in Britain from the early 1970s to the present day when London ranks alongside Paris, New York and Milan as a global fashion capital. London has produced many outstanding designers such as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Stella McCartney. The book describes and shows – through 200 stunning photographs and illustrations – the key players in the fashion industry over this period, and the influences that went to shape British fashion: the music, the clubs, the parties, the tradition of dressing-up; but above all, the designers and their clothes.

The story is told largely through interviews with the designers and opinion-shapers of the period. Among those who talk about their experiences are Paul Smith, Philip Treacy, Jasper Conran, Bruce Oldfield, Betty Jackson, Rifat Ozbek, Katharine Hamnett, Antonio Berardi, Wendy Dagworthy, Body Map, Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman, Anna Harvey – the Vogue fashion editor who dressed the Princess of Wales for many years – and PR Lynne Franks.

Robert O’Byrne, previously Fashion Correspondent of The Irish Times, has spent many years at the heart of the fashion world, close to the people and events covered by this book. He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and journals in Britain, Ireland and the United States. Previous books include After A Fashion: A History of Fashion in Ireland.

Ever since consultant Annette Worsley-Taylor founded the London Designer Collections in 1975 she has been involved in all aspects of the promotion of British designers, and of London Fashion Week. She was Creative and Marketing Director and Consultant to the British Fashion Council for Fashion Week from 1993 to 2006. In 2002 she was made an MBE for services to British fashion.

For further information please contact:
Emma O’Bryen
Frances Lincoln Publicity on 020 7619 0098

Alexander McQueen Retro-Respect-tive.

I F***IN LOOOVE AQ!!!!!
This guy is RADDNESS......Just wait. you will be all on him very soon. (Wink...Tastemakers)
Born in the East End of London, he is the son of a taxi driver, McQueen started making dresses for his three sisters at a young age and announced his intention of becoming a fashion designer.

Alexander McQueen's early runway collections developed his reputation for controversy and shock tactics (earning the title "enfant terrible" and "the hooligan of English fashion"), with trousers aptly named "bumsters", and a collection entitled "Highland Rape". It has also been claimed that he was on income support and that he needed to change his name for his first show so that he could continue to receive benefits. McQueen is known for his lavish, unconventional runway shows, such as a recreation of a shipwreck for his spring 2003 collection, spring 2005’s human chess game and his fall 2006 show, Widows of Culloden, which featured a life-sized hologram of supermodel Kate Moss, dressed in yards of rippling fabric.



Some of Alexander McQueen's accomplishments include being one of the youngest designers to achieve the title "British Designer of the Year", which he won three times between 1996 and 2003. He has also been awarded the CBE, as well as being named International Designer of the Year at the Council of Fashion Designer Awards. December 2000 saw a new partnership for McQueen with Gucci Group acquiring 51% of the company, and McQueen serving as Creative Director. Plans for expansion have included the opening of stores in London, Milan, and New York, and the launch of his perfumes Kingdom, and more recently My Queen. In 2005, McQueen collaborated with Puma to create a special line of trainers for the shoe brand.
McQueen became the first designer to participate in MAC's newest promotion: cosmetic releases created by fashion designers. The collection, McQueen, was released on 11 October 2007 and reflects the looks used on the Fall/Winter McQueen runway. The inspiration for the collection was the Elizabeth Taylor movie Cleopatra, and thus the models sported intense blue, green, and teal eyes with strong black liner extended Egyptian-style. McQueen handpicked the 3 cream shadows, coordinating eye shadows, two lip sticks, two lipglasses, three eyeliners, false lashes and Mineralized Skin Finish powder used in the

GOTHIC dark glamour....COTORTURE!!!!

I recently went to The Museum at F.I.T. The Fashion Institute of Technology for the Gothic (dark glamor) Exhibit. And I have to say it was EXCELLENT!!! My take on "GOTH" has changed forever & I from a fashion standpoint am really inspired be this exhibit curated by Valerie Steele. This is a must see. Here some information I got off their website. For those of you that are not going to be in NYC before Feb 21, I included some youtube links for you to have a peak. I hear there is a coffee table book due for release in Fall 09. Look for that too & get your Goth Bars up!
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Gothic is an epithet with a strange history, evoking images of death, destruction, and decay. It is not just a word that describes something (such as a Gothic cathedral); it is almost inevitably a term of abuse, implying that something is gloomy, barbarous, and macabre. Ironically, its negative connotations have made it, in some respects, ideal as a symbol of rebellion. Hence its significance for youth subcultures. Today the words "goth" and "gothic" are popularly associated with black-clad teenagers and mascara'd rock musicians. But the gothic has many layers of meaning.



Just as the "barbarian" Goths were perceived by the Romans as the antithesis of classical civilization, so did the medieval Gothic come to be seen as modernity's Other, its "dark side." With the rise of the Enlightenment, the entire medieval period was retrospectively envisioned as the Dark Ages, characterized by superstition and sorcery. The Gothic has long attracted cultural outsiders, from the homosexual aesthete Horace Walpole, author of the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, to the habitués of today's Vampire Balls.



The imagery of death and decay, the power of horror, and the erotic macabre are perversely attractive to many designers. John Galliano, for example, has described the "Gothic girl" as "edgy and cool, vampy and mysterious." Alexander McQueen, Rick Owens, Yohji Yamamoto, and Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy have also created what could be described as gothic fashion. Ann Demeulemeester may reject the gothic label, associating it with the ubiquitous skull accessory, but Owens proudly recalls that he once was a goth, just as Vivienne Westwood was a punk.

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