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
Above: Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm & Uta Eisenreich have captured the imaginary muse ‘Amber’ for the Arnhem Mode Biennale in the Netherlands, opening june 1st, 2011.
In this month long event, international fashion designers and creatives take over the city with exhibitions, installations, workshops and more. Participants include A.F. Vandevorst, BLESS, Damir Doma, Maison Martin Margiela, Prada, Raf Simons, Rodarte & Thom Browne.
www.arnhemmodebiennale.com
Vinyl Rubber, Mohair, Oil paint, Plaster, Aluminium armature
18 1/4″ x 9 1/4″ x 6 3/4″
Damir Doma presented his menswear collection at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris on Saturday. Firmly grounded in the colours of the earth, his gentle warriors descended upon the terraced gardens in the dimming twilight. No longer on a gallant quest, Damir’s men seemed to have found their destination – in a grounded uniform that spoke a new sophistication of proportion, of light and dark, of drape and exposure.
Damir Doma Spring Summer 2011
“A new control emerges in the reverent uniforms of the scorched earth. From a cloistered existence, a gentleman walks through mineral landscapes. An unknown static breaches his calm, weaving a subtle gleam into old tradition. The disturbance becomes vestal, augering the age of experience. Innocence is shattered as a new harmony reigns.
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Born on a bed of stone, the Damir Doma man carries a hardness upon his back, carved at the shoulder in acute structure. His sleeves warp in batwing volumes; his torso is robed in a flat plane or lost in light folds. Carpeted in the fractured weave of woven cotton, he bears a new geometry – as disparate angles align in points of harmony.
Tones are volcanic, gathering momentum through a strata of pure greys, taupes and black. A print explodes as cosmic smoke, as white noise arrives in a second skin of knitwear and blanket shawls. Light coats carry a quiet drama, constructed in papery cotton gauze, washed linens and cashmere silk. His legs are softly bound in pleated shorts or a low sarrouel trouser, his head crowned by a sombre fez. On his feet, formal sandals are worn with knitted socks, or a low desert boot grounds his step.
Divining a delicate tension, Damir Doma aligns a timeless balance between opposites. The keystones of universal folklore become blurred in the chaos of today. In the eye of the storm, grace is born from instinct.”
Photographer Kenneth Capello‘s ”Fuck or be fucked” shot by Mark Squires in New York, May 2010.
(via Kristopher Houser).
A MAGAZINE curated by have just released their very first archive online, from when the issues went ABC instead of 123!
It all began with NºA featuring Dirk Van Saene, an initiative by Walter Van Beirendonck in Antwerp in 2001. See the issue here, and follow A BLOG featuring Dirk Van Saene. Stay posted for:
NºB featuring Bernhard Willhelm – June 2010
NºC featuring Hussein Chalayan – July 2010
NºD featuring Olivier Theyskens – August 2010
NºE featuring Viktor & Rolf - September 2010
…and the impending announcement of the newest curator for A#10, released in print on 10th October, 2010.