Mark Gonzales for Supreme London: blobart

If you saw yesterday's post about the new Supreme store in London you can't have missed a big yellow blob man which looked like it had escaped from the set of Flubber.

He is a Mark Gonzales creation, and along with a few cartoon murals, is part of the artwork he has been commissioned to do for the shop.

Check the video for an inside look into the man's work. What a great job.

Supreme London: about time

Just when I was beginning to think there was jack all to post about, along comes news of a Supreme store in London.

It's right in the middle of Soho, just off Wardour Street and in perfect trotting distance for all the skater-types working in the media companies around there.

It opens on Thursday so I'm probably the last to hear about it.

Supreme
Peter Street
London
W1F OAA

Thanks to Slamxhype for the heads up and pics

Nigel Cabourn A/W 2011 interview: the man himself

Nigel Cabourn AW11 from LN-CC on Vimeo.

The advent of a new season in menswear just wouldn't be the same without a Nigel Cabourn interview. This is the bit when the man himself waxes (should that be beeswaxes, given his love of treating his jackets in the stuff?) lyrical about the inspirations and materials in his collection.

It is also the bit when you consider once again remortgaging the house for one of those cameraman jackets.

Loopwheeler x Monocle cardie: Jersey sure

Japan makes the best denim, the coolest kicks and I'm even quite fond of sushi. Now it turns out they make the best sweatshirts too, by means of Loopwheeler.

These garments are manufactured on Loopwheel looms, hence the name and are widely regarded as being the Rolls Royce of sweatshirts. 

As with anything Japanese apart from Uniqlo, you'd be hard pushed to find Loopwheeler stuff anywhere in the UK, although Monocle Magazine have just collaborated on a line of shawl neck cardies, which are rather tasty if you ask me.

White Mountaineering Pertex jacket: I detect a pattern

I had high hopes for White Mountaineering once. I truly thought I had found a possible contender for the place of Visvim in my heart. Then came the patterns. Not just as a detail, but everywhere, on everything from knitwear to Gore Tex (or in this case Pertex) jackets. And it wasn't just one or two variations on a style. Patterns, it has become apparent to me, are White Mountaineering's trademark.

Which is fine if you are a hippy or a Nepalese goatherder (have I written these words before?) but the look of a monied crusty spouting peace and love while wearing a £2k jacket is a bit much for me.

That said, there are elements I like about this jacket. All on the inside, where there's no pattern.

 

Girls Friday: Rihanna in the back

And you thougth Megan Fox looked good in Armani

Visvim Skagway Estlin: capping it off

Might as well complete a hat-trick of Visvim posts with a closer look at the Skagway Estline, which given the other Visvim releases this year is shaping up to be the pick of the bunch.

It's pretty much the standard Skagway, which takes more than a nod from Converse Chucks, with the addition of a brogueish shaped toecap. That's the only way I can describe it really. You might also call it a Western tip. I made that up too.

My money's on the beige.

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