Hints and tips:
...Watanabe is big on collaborations — we get a screed detailing them every season, usually with specialist companies such as Levi’s, Mackintosh or New Balance....
...Loewe’s have a slight rip and are a bit roomier (the brand’s creative director Jonathan Anderson has almost never taken a catwalk bow in anything other than jeans)....
...How much longer might a pair from 45R — the ultra high-quality Japanese brand, whose New York store was the site of my brush with insanity — last than a pair of Levi’s?...
...“Figures of upright military bearing with toothbrush moustaches; dandyish suited and booted types; and the hyper-macho drag of 1970s clones in checked shirts and Levi’s...”...
...I watch out for military uniforms, old Levi’s and vintage nautical wear....
...Colin Heywood, managing director at Anderson & Sheppard on Savile Row, thinks that for a fairly formal environment staying neutral is advisable. “Darker colours are good, dark grey or dark blue....
...Jonathan Anderson has taken the idea of volume to the nth degree in his collection for Loewe, which he describes as “an extremisation of fashion, magnified in all its theatricality and sculpturality”....
...Levi’s 501s with an oversized hand-knit sweater and thick flecked socks imparted a certain “Scandi architect with her own cinnamon bun micro-bakery” vibe (am I getting carried away here?)....
...And then there is Pamela Anderson, a walking, living, breathing work of art....
...Anderson decided during lockdown not to have a physical show....
...Dockers, Levi’s khaki brand, has long been a byword for hapless suburban squareness — the dorky dad in fabric form. The problem is that, kick them as we might, the damn things keep getting back up....
...The brand’s signature pieces include Burberry trench coats with the distinctive Nova plaid re-stitched to the outside, and luxe Chanel tweeds combined with Levi’s denim jackets....
...It was from Levi’s, the company I buy most of my denim from, telling me about a new product: its “most sustainable jeans ever”....
...Brooke was also savvy in his decision to appoint Jonathan Anderson to be the brand’s first creative director in 2009....
...Chloé’s creative director Natasha Ramsey-Levi took a subtler approach to the trend....
...Ramsay-Levi has faced a few challenges since arriving at Chloé....
...The city of Görlitz, where most Birkenstocks are born, is best described in the voice of a Wes Anderson narrator (it is, incidentally, where the director shot the deliciously sugary-hued film The Grand Budapest...
...Loewe Jonathan Anderson had an excellent season, both at Loewe and his own namesake label....
...Rubchinskiy first showed in 2008, the same year as London-based designer JW Anderson....
...“He was probably the earliest guy to see this coming,” said Mark Anderson, an independent technology analyst....
...At Gucci, a pink coat came with sculpted, semicircular sleeves emblazoned with the words Modern on one, and Future on the other, and JW Anderson filled his SS17 catwalk with gargantuan leg o’ mutton-sleeved...
...My white jeans, old Levi’s 501s, are special to me. I always wear them, even if they’re dirty and covered in coffee and stains. I buy them on eBay....
...“The great thing about shirting is that it goes with jeans, and jeans are probably the most modern, functional garment that ever existed,” says designer Jonathan Anderson whose six-piece JW Anderson x Net-a-Porter...
...And movies (especially the cord-suited world of Wes Anderson)....
...Jackie Wullschlager Architecture Imaginary Cities, by Darran Anderson, Influx Press, RRP£12.99 A compendium of fantasy cities that takes its cue from Marco Polo via Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, this...
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