Nike Sporstwear, Nike’s high-end clothing line, has got London’s Cassette Playa and Dutch art guy Parra to do a rivals collection. Some of it is already out, and the remainder goes on sale at the end of the month. Cassette Playa’s varsity jackets, tees and technical apparel totally defeat Parra’s stuff. But he probably doesn’t mind that, because he’s come over all liberal and Dutch, and in a touchingly, old-fashioned way, has dedicated his stuff to the sports teams that lose (which is hardly the Nike philosophy). Read more »
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LFW - Lulu Kennedy tells us how designers make it
Lulu Kennedy’s MAN and (today’s) Fashion East shows are known for having given countless designers their big break. The editors of fashion magazines also love her because she makes it easy for them to work out who they should write about. So we decided to find out how to impress her and what designers like Marios Schwab, Gareth Pugh and Cassette Playa did right.
Carri Mundane is trying to do “normal”
Back in ‘06 Cassette Playa designer Carri Mundane was totally ubiquitous. She styled Klaxons and at some point everyone in the Old Blue wore that bleeding-eye t-shirt. Since then though she’s sort of ignored all the rules and decided that she’d rather have a streetwear brand rather than exist in high fashion. Of course her version of streetwear is all about Vikings, you don’t get that with Fubu, Read more »
