Damir Doma calls his diffusion line “SILENT“, referring to the quiet, timeless place that the designer retreats to whenever starting a collection. For Spring 2012 he brings a slice of that tranquil aesthetic to New York city, with a pop-up store on Howard Street in Soho.

Echoing the season’s print (inspired by African bodypainting) the façade of the street-level store has been hand-painted with monochrome stripes, and the interior decorated with life-size b&w posters by the French photographed Sybille Walter.

Check it out at 22D Howard Street NYC from this week until early May.

#MuglerLive - Womenswear FW12-13 show, Wednesday 29th at 9pm CET / 3pm EST

To accompany the third Mugler womenswear collection under the creative direction of Nicola Formichetti, tune in to #MuglerLive, on 28th & 29th February for uncensored footage from the Mugler atelier, and a live broadcast powered by Ustream with the program formulated by the digital agency, Moving Image & Content.

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.