THE WHITE BRIEFS… Interview with the founder Peter Simonsson
“In a colorful world the element of surprise predominates; in white, instead, only a joyful and premonitory restlessness”, this way , in his Strahlungen, Ernst Jünger tries to describe the white: bright, pure, symbol of the brand THE… »
Freethinkers… Interview with Ksenia Schnaider
Until a few years ago, if I thought of “Russia” it unfailingly appears before my eyes the image of the richly honored crown of the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna Romanova and the bulky furs worn by the protagonists of Doctor Zhivago…… »
A Cosmopolitan Boy… Tim Labenda
“So let me be a Cosmopolitan Boy… It’s true that I just want to conquer the globe”, Monsieur Bien sings… Oh yes… He likes metropolitan life. He feels as a citizen of the world, different from anybody else, immune to… »
TEETH in Luca Finotti’s story…
“Mmmbop, ba duba dop. Ba du bop, ba duba dop. Ba du bop, ba duba dop. Ba du… Yeah”, the refrain of the Hanson’s song MmmBop echoed in our ears all along that 1997’s summer… Today it comes back as… »
The Great Gatsby of fashion… Angelo Flaccavento
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since…”, The Great Gatsby’s incipit helps me to present him, Angelo Flaccavento: journalist, author, style icon (but woe to… »
Saint Laurent Duffle Bag
“Load up on guns and bring your friends. It’s fun to lose and to pretend…”, sang Kurt Cobain and he would certainly have appreciated the new Duffle designed by Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent. The Parisian Designer thus… »
Uniforms, camouflage, psych-rock… Interview with SMITH-WYKES duet
“We bonded over the creative energy and eclectic music of the scene, that, and a shared appreciation of dry martinis”. Imagine a small rowdy bar in the new yorker East Village. Imagine you getting in, immerse yourself in a surreal, avant-garde, contemporary… »
Alberto Moretti… Joie de chaussures!
He is the designer “from the velvet heart”. His creations are chosen by international celebrities such as Elton John, Ryan Gosling, Ronnie Wood. His brand is distributed in the best luxury store in the world: Barneys New York, Harvey Nichols, Mercury-Tsum Moscow,… »
Naplestreetstyle sets the style… Interview with Walter D’Aprile!
“…Perhaps it is just Nss, and all the world revolving around it, which can describe us better than anything else… Now we are what we do”, this way Walter D’Aprile answers one of my questions and in those few words it seems… »
The capricious Christian Deslauriers’ Enfant Roi…
A son of the Nintendo generation. Willing to take risks to reinvent the very concept of elegance… Christian Deslauriers’ Enfant Roi is a spoiled brat: capricious, cheeky, modern.
He, Christian, perfectly embodies the spirit of the brand. Young, Danish, passionate about visual… »
Magic Realism… Interview with Lucio Vanotti!
According to him, “reality could be the best dream possible” and it’s just by the real world that he is inspired. His are clear cloths, no frills. Created for the individual rather than the mass. We could define him as… »
House of Montague… Interview with Martin Ahn
A Shakespearean name: House of Montague. An unconventional soul. Martin Ahn chooses to mix tradition and avant-garde. An innovative, young shoes-brand was born…which looks forward! The 2013-14 F/W Collection –introduced at PittiImmagineUomo83 –is inspired by America, the golden… »
John Varvatos’ FW13-14 Backstage!
Behind the scenes of the Milanese fashion shows again … Sophisticated and rude… John Varvatos’s man is this way also offstage! The allure is that of the American rocker… The soul of the European dandy… John observes, advises, directs… They,… »
MMFW. At attention but in fur… the third and fourth day!
MMFW: third and fourth day. For next F/W the man stands at attention and proudly flaunts his military-style…
Bikkembergs’ Backstage. An exclusive for FuckingYoung!
Impeccable, gritty, urban… Bikkembergs’ man is this way… even in backstage! The fashion show is at 9:30… We are behind the scenes at 9:00… There is turmoil, the classic pre-catwalk confusion!
The models joke, practise and surrender in front of… »
MMFW. Rock, dark, religious… The first day on the runaway!
MMFW: the first day. “Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that gun of your hand“, in these Hendrix’s words the essence of 2013-14 F/W’s man… I realized it at the Costume National’s fashion show yesterday in the morning…… »
giuliano Fujiwara Fall/Winter 2013
Sergio Daricello creates a collection for giuliano Fujiwara Fall/Winter 2013 based on the union-contamination between the East and Westof the world for the Japanese-Milanese brand.. his man is the son of the globalized society… He combines… »
Pitti. The Orient Express and Kenzo’s triumph!
PittiImmagineUomo 83: the third day…my last one here! An almond-eyed Edition… and we have seen it!
The second day at Pitti: Rinaldi, Pompilio, Bjerkesjö and the Florence’s homage to Scervino!
PittiImmagineUomo 83: the second day. Three names… Emiliano Rinaldi, Andrea Pompilio, Erïk Bjerkesjö. Three different points of view… Decadent, glamorous, minimal-chic… it’s the 2014’s man!
Andrea Pompilio’s bohemian contaminations…
Andrea Pompilio. A long experience. A rock-chic soul. A talented designer… The day after the 2013-14 F/W Collection’s fashion show, here is the exclusive interview for FuckingYoung!
Pitti: the first day of Onitsuka Tiger’s cyborg skater!
PittiImmagineUomo 83: the first day… Finally, this winter we will be able to cover ourselves! Soft cashmere jackets and enveloping coats will warm up our cold winters… Even the classic cardigan becomes a jacket and succeeds in convincing..
The Giuliano Fujiwara’s Italian… Interview with Sergio Daricello!
Sergio Daricello… Stubborn, determined, a dreamer. Lover of art, in every forms. An immense love for, as he likes to call it, La Reine (Marie Antoinette of France). Graduated at Istituto Marangoni. The first menswear designer for Versus and Versace… »
Predicting the future… What will happen in 2013?
-1… We want to end our countdown differently… Not with what has already happened but with what we expect to happen! The innovative spirit of FuckingYoung! encourages us to go ahead, to look beyond, to think about the future… So here they… »
Inspiration, marketing, direction… The AD Campaigns!
-3… And if it’s true that collections could not exist without the Fashion Week, collections could not exist without Ad campaigns. Rallying cry: to sell! Fantasy, strategy, originality… These are the ingredients for a successful advertising… There are many versions…… »
The agony and the ecstasy… The collections!
-4… Ah the collections! How could they lack in our top-tens? A lot of emerging designers grappling with their first fashion show or presentation… Innovative, evocative, seductive… During this year we have seen lots of them… Some made us excited,… »
Editorials… The fashion magazine’s soul!
-5… Our countdown continues… Artistic, whimsical, vintage-inspired… Editorials are the fashion magazine’s soul… How many times have you dreamed while leafing through those pages? How many times have you wanted to have just that pants, that coat, that jacket worn… »
Covers mon amour!
-6… Have you synchronized your clocks with our countdown? Today it’s the cover’s turn… Yes, that “first page” so different from the others… Either audacious or funny… Either coloured or politically incorrect… To them the arduous task of capturing attention… »
-7… The end, that of the year, is coming… Let the countdown begin!
And even this year we’re approaching the New Year… There are those who leave, those who organize parties and a gourmet dinner… We have decided to celebrate this 2012 that goes our way… How? With the classic countdown… From now until December… »
Balenciaga chooses Wang: goodbye to Haute Couture, welcome Prêt-à-Porter!
And in the end it seems that he will win out… Who? Alexander Wang!
The rumor was from WWD. Balenciaga has confirmed it… The Nicolas Ghesquière‘s successor at the helm of the Maison Balenciaga will be… »
For the 2013 S/S collection, Bikkembergs is back to the future!
What have Back to the Future and Gustave Courbet’s nineteenth-century-paintings in common? Simple…
The Bikkembergs’ 2013 S/S Collection!
