Photographed by Nadia Madzzar, ASSIN

Tuomas Laitinen’s cult Finnish label LAITINEN will return to Paris Mens Fashion Week for the Automne-Hiver 2012-13 season, with an intimate presentation on January 22nd, 2012.

The lovely people at ACNE STUDIOS are launching their second Paris store tonight, moving into the upper Marais (Paris’ garment district, if you will). The converted electrician’s studio features blood red ceilings, raw concrete beams and gold-tinted windows – along with a raw marble sculpture by the house’s artist du jour, English sculptor Daniel Silver. ACNE STUDIOS, 3 Rue Froissart Paris 75003 FRANCE www.acnestudios.com

The sleeve of a macramé jacket from the graduation collection of Jantine Van Peski, on day one of shooting for the Novembre #4 feature on the Antwerp Fashion Academy, shot this week in Antwerp by Reto Schmid and Lee Wei Swee.

Looks from the graduation collection of Frederick Hornof hanging at the styling for the Novembre #4 feature on the Antwerp Fashion Academy graduate collections, shot this week in Antwerp by Reto Schmid and Lee Wei Swee.

Damir Doma‘s Parisian store hidden away in the Marais will close on Wednesday, to make way for a pop-up space within a famous but secret (as-of-yet) retail location, before they open a flagship store on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré…

Anyone is invited to 70% off all mens and women’s SS11 ranges until this Wednesday (be quick!)
More details here.

Completely hand-stitched selvedge jeans
Size: Waist: 31 Length: 34 (adjustable rear seam allows for waist 29 to 34)
Made from 12oz Sanforized Japanese Denim from Nihon Mills in the Okayama Prefecture
Selvedge belt loops and coin pocket
Oak Buttons with hand-sewn buttonholes
Hand embroidered name tags sewn on over-dyed cobalt cotton
Hand written text on pocketing made from a Military deadstock linen bedsheet dated 1966

Every stitch done by hand by Cameron Foden
Construction time: 105 hours

Made in Antwerp, Belgium

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