japanese culture's relationship with nature could be best described as one focused on total harmony,yet at 93%,japan's
urbanization rate is one of the highest among industrialized countries.
it's no wonder that this odd discrepancy adds up to an ongoing
obsession for nature, nostalgia and rustic lifestyle, and retail is one
of the domains that creatively banks on this trend with a continuous
stream of new concepts. one of the latest major initiatives is
conceptualized by a tokyo-based brand stylist and photographer with a certain renown in fashion circles and beyond:takashi kumagai. in his capacity as creative director, kumagai created cpcm – short for crafts and permaculture country mall –
a concept store with a tightly range of goods that loosely reference a
rustic lifestyle. the store is situated on meiji dori, a bustling
thoroughfare in the harajuku district.
in full compliance with the retail concept, the façade of the cpcm
store is largely covered in panels of repurposed wood, and this
rural-inspired aesthetic extends indoors. indeed, the interior features
timber in equal measure, but the material is creatively applied in
different guises, from flooring and shelving, to panels and one
decorative louvered ceiling. a number of carefully sourced, stylish
props add to a sense of the big outdoors, albeit with an americana perspective. as said, the merchandise at cpcm
is quite varied, ranging from men's and women's apparel, accessories
and shoes, to homeware, furniture pieces, utensils and even plants.
overwhelmed? no worries. a small café on the premises, serving a concise
menu of drinks and bites, gets you back on your feet in no time. to
celebrate the store opening, an exhibition of bona capello hats was held, while a special collab hat model is temporarily available. location: 6-12-22 jingumae [harajuku].
Formula 1 is all about precision. The difference between winning and
losing can be down to the smallest detail. Mobil 1 and McLaren-Honda
decided to put their technical partnership to the test, by setting Jenson Button the ultimate challenge.
My friend, Richard has made much stylish tube for everyone to tube it for any kind of food literally.
Harissais a North African hot chili pepper paste, and has been a main condiment in Tunisia since 1530's. During the thanksgiving in Yosemite together, both of our family decided to bring all kinds of food from city not relying on the markets in Yosemite. We brought turkey, sirloin steak, raw fish for "temaki sushi", Liver pate, cheese, ham, vegetables............ We cooked full menus from morning to late nights and applied Entube Harissa for everything on a table. I was so impressed with this condiment making food even more delicious, unique, and we just did not get tired of eating.
If you are condiment guy, try this magic tube for your dining experience. Its good.
LA TIMES just featured Entube and I thought I should share with food lovers.
↓ Need a stocking stuffer for someone who’s addicted to Sriracha? Get them hooked on North African harissa fromEntube in downtown L.A. The spicy sauce is flavored with paprika, cayenne, cumin, sumac, coriander and other spices.
The chile paste dispensed from a sleek silver tube quickly becomes a habit you can’t break. Put it on eggs, roasted vegetables, lentil soup or in your salad dressing. Use it as a rub on fish, meats and poultry. Blend some into your burger mix. Even use it to give cocktails (think Bloody Mary) some extra oomph.
Entube founder Richard J. Lasselle said he dreamed up this modern version of harissa during summers in Provence. Entube harissa is not strictly traditional, though. He’s given it a unique twist with his spicing and with the introduction of Amazonian acerola berry for its vitamin C and Ayurvedic (holistic healing) properties.
Entube harissa is vegetarian, vegan, paleo, Kosher, non-GMO -- all that good stuff -- and the tube and packaging are 100% recyclable.
The default is a 3.5-ounce tube, but some stores are selling mini-versions for about a dollar a piece. That's inexpensive enough that you can sprinkle them like snowflakes in the Christmas stockings of everybody you know. The little tubes could even make unconventional gift ties.
Saturdays NYC is pleased to announce their first
Australian flagship location at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Drawing on the
brands modern aesthetic, the store considers Bondi’s sidewalk culture
and incorporates locally sourced timbers and materials. Coffee beans
will be supplied by premium local roasters Artificer and served through a
window, outdoor benches provide the perfect place for customers to hang
out. The soaring shop front features four metre high glass and a
north-west aspect which provides the interior space with an abundance of
natural light.
Co-founder Morgan Collett states, “We were able to visit Australia a
few years ago and immediately had a strong connection to the country and
the people”. Saturdays Bondi marks the brands seventh store globally
however this location is the first to be located within minutes walking
distance of the beach.
It was announced yesterday that Todd Snyder's namesake label and his Tailgate Clothing brand had been purchased by American Eagle Outfitters. It was a big day and the start of a new chapter in the designer's already impressive career path. It's a union of two ends of the American menswear spectrum and a new platform for Snyder. Now, he not only has the chance to get his wares into the hands of even more stylish men, but is also in a position to influence what young guys will buy at the mass retail mall level. We chatted up Snyder to get the real story behind the acquisition, find out what it means for his own label and myriad of ongoing collaborations, and what we can expect from his first U.S. flagship shop.
When did the conversations start between you and American Eagle? They really started when we opened City Gym in Nolita about two years ago. Roger (Markfield, chief creative officer) and Jay (Schottenstein, CEO) walked in the store and fell in love with it. We started talking about things like maybe putting City Gym in American Eagle stores. Chad (Kessler, global brand president) came on board, we showed him photos of the Iowa City Tailgate store, and he just got it.
The Tailgate brand seems particularly poised for growth after the acquisition. Were there ever talks of American Eagle only buying Tailgate? It was always the full package. I started showing them the Todd Snyder stores in Tokyo and it just went from there. We’ve always been looking for an investor, always looking to grow.
How hard is it to run an independent design business, like your namesake label, today? Do the financial considerations affect creative decisions? It’s a challenge for any business. When you’re small you’re up against the Hugo Boss’s, the John Varvatos’, the Tom Fords. It’s really hard to get recognized when you’re competition is so big and so powerful. you’re competition is so big and so powerful.
How will this deal help grow the Todd Snyder brand? Long-term, our goal is to be able to position the brand in a certain way. It’s all going to be measured and thoughtful investment. We’re still small and we still have a lot to learn. So we’re going to have to more resources to help sell, to visit stores, but small and nimble is how we work—we’ll always be scrappy.
Will the Todd Snyder White Label continue? It will continue. You can’t do better for a made-in-the-USA suit at that $795 price. That was kind of the goal—I want to reinvent the way men shop for clothes. The world is changing, guys are finding a new ways to buy clothes, so why not offer them everything from Todd Snyder? We’re continuing with Champion, Cole Haan, and P.F. Flyers as well.
And what about the announced New York City flagship? Is the goal to recreate the Tokyo Townhouse concept? I want it to be the ultimate store for a man. I want to make a place that’s approachable with good price points and things, like our collaboration with Rocky Mountain Featherbed, that are going to make us more unique, more competitive.
The Todd Snyder Townhouse in Tokyo
What will your position within the American Eagle organization look like? It feels like a creative think tank over there and I’m excited to think about all the things we can do together. I’m really going to be more of a sounding board. It’s about how to have—and how to build—the right mix of products for millenials and the next generation. I’m also excited about the possibility of bringing other creative into it. I like to hire people who are better than me.
When you started Tailgate out of your dad’s basement, did you ever imagine you’d have this platform? It’s a dream come true. It’s still a little surreal in a way. I couldn’t have picked up a better partner. I can’t wait to make it great.
I just came back from 3 weeks long Japan trip and would like to thank you to everyone who supported my trip and made its trip so great.
There were couple projects that I have worked with and I had a chance to be there to enjoy the moment. Saturdays Surf event forPETER SUTHERLAND collaboration, PRINT ALL OVER ME X VARIOUS PROJECT event at BIOTOP.
For TODD SNYDER, we had runway show on the first day for theTOKYO FASHION WEEK and it was a huge success for both TODD SNYDER and TOKYO FASHION WEEK.
Here are the video for the runway show and sharing with you guys.
Enjoy! no sound.........I am not sure what the problem is......damn it......
PRINT ALL OVER ME
– PAOM / VARIOUS PROJECTS installation at BIOTOP -
9.25 ( Fri. ) – 10.4 ( Sun. ) BIOTOP OSAKA
NY発・日本初上陸の“ Print All Over Me ” の特別なインスタレーションイベントが実現しました! プロジェクターより壁に投影される、様々なプリントパターン。そこに服をかざしたり、自分自身に柄を投影し、シュミレーションしたものを実際にオーダーできる斬新なシステムです。 洋服のオーダーの新しい体験をしてみませんか?
POCKET Shop New York Comme des Garçons is very pleased be launching its first freestanding US POCKET Shop on August 27th, 2015. The POCKET shop retail concept is the first of its kind. It evokes the modern day convenience store, whose shelves are piled high, thick with produce. A local POCKET shop, like a grocery store, is a place for simple and affordable purchases – it consists of pocket-sized items that you don’t have to think about too much and can buy on a whim. Every POCKET shop is designed to naturally integrate into its surroundings, and to provide everyday access to Comme des Garcons’ PLAY, Wallets and Parfum collections. The first shops launched in Tokyo department store corners in 2007 and expanded to Paris in 2008, with a shop in the Marais district, and a POCKET PLUS shop in AU PRINTEMPS department store, where the POCKET items are mixed with the Comme des Garcons SHIRT collection. There are now around 30 POCKET shops worldwide, mostly corners in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand and dedicated spaces in the Dover Street Markets of London, NY and Beijing, and the Comme des Garcons stores in Paris, Manila and Chelsea NY, but also including freestanding POCKET shops in Singapore, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris and Melbourne. Comme des Garçons POCKET 112 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10011 Tel: (212) 463-8100 pocket-newyork@cdgny.com Hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 11am-7pm Sunday: 12pm-6pm
パルは、原宿・明治通り沿いの「チャオパニック(CIAOPANIC)」および2階の「カスタネ(KASTANE)」「ミスティック
(MYSTIC)」「フーズフーチコ(WHO'S WHO
CHICO)」店舗を9月末に閉店し、複合型ショップ「CPCM」をオープンする。開業は11月28日を予定しており、売り場面積は928平方メートル。
総合ディレクターとして、スタイリストの熊谷隆志を起用し、アメリカを中心としたクラフト雑貨、家具、メンズおよびウィメンズのウエアをラインアップする
他、店内にはフード&ドリンクスタンドも併設する。
「CPCM」は「Crafts and Permaculture
Country
Mall」の略で、手作りのぬくもりを感じられるものや、永続的に続く文化を大切にするモールの意味。熊谷隆志ディレクターは「もう、洋服に特化する時代
じゃない。けど、ライフスタイルって言葉も使いたくない。CPCMという4文字で今の自分の気持ちを具現化した」とコメント。井上英隆パル会長は、「これ
からの時代を考えるとファッションビジネスもカルチャーなしには語れない時代に入った。だからこそ今、ファッションもスタイルも独自の思想を持つ熊谷氏
に、これからの新しいファッションビジネスのディレクションを依頼した」と語っている。
This is TODD SNYDER's 3rd retail store
in Japan and We are very very excited to have its store in old Japan
city , Kyoto. The store is in Fujii Daimaru,
very prestigious fashion building and we have 2 locations on same floor
(7th floor)! Please come to enjoy TODD SNYDER
world! 本日8/20に、トッドスナイダーの3店舗目となる、藤井大丸京都ショップがオープン致しました。7階に2箇所の展開となり、メインコレク
ション以外に、Todd Snyder X
Champion、またトッド個人が好む、他ブランドアイテムも展開しています。 是非京都にお越しの際は、お立ち寄りください。お待ちしております。
What a week this week with New York Men's Fashion Week.
We had veterans, already established, up and coming brands of America all got together at downtown of New York City at effective timing for the men's business very first time.
Here, I must report you how awesome Todd Snyder show was and it was huge success.
Thank you to all the Todd Snyder customers, retailers, friends, and business partner for the continuing support.
We are coming at bigger than ever and please sit tight to see S/S16' collections in stores next Spring.
Todd Snyder, a Designer Raised in Iowa, Is Big in Japan
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former high school football player, Mr. Snyder is the guy who
modernized J. Crew’s tailored clothes to attract a generation for which a
suit was still an exotic garment; who anticipated that formal wear, of
all things, would turn out to be of interest for male millennials; and
who initiated many of the collaborations with heritage labels (Alden,
Red Wing, Timex) that became a template for the J. Crew Liquor Store, itself now the model for the reinvention of the haberdashery.
Yet
even after leaving J. Crew at 40 to found his own label, after being
nominated for a C.F.D.A. award and after being named one of GQ’s best
new men’s wear designers, Mr. Snyder remained an under-the-radar talent.
“The
very first show he did, the first real show on models, just blew me
away,” said Madeline Weeks, the fashion director of GQ, referring to Mr.
Snyder’s 2011 New York Fashion Week presentation.
Editors went on to prove their enthusiasm by photographing Channing Tatum, John Legend and the cast of “Saturday Night Live” in Mr. Snyder’s clothes.
Still,
he generated little of the buzz that has accompanied other debuts, and
that, too, may have had something to do with Mr. Snyder’s Midwestern
reserve.
“There’s just not a big ego there,” Ms. Weeks said.
Then,
in a turn of events few could have anticipated, Todd Snyder suddenly
became famous. If not quite a rock star, he is suddenly a mini-cult
figure, a Next Big Thing, a fashion name to know. If it happens you are
unaware of this recent turn of events, that is probably because it took
place in Japan.
Backed by the same group of Japanese investors who made the low-key British designer Margaret Howell
into a phenomenon far from home, Mr. Snyder opened a three-story
concept store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo last March. It was his
own steroidal version of the J. Crew Liquor Store, with elements of City
Gym (a New York pop-up he opened this year in partnership with
Champion) thrown in.
Naturally,
shoppers at the Townhouse, as the Tokyo store is called, encounter the
well-proportioned suits that are a Snyder specialty, the high-end
athletic wear he designs better than almost anyone else and the
accessories for which he draws inspiration from his extensive collection
of vintage haberdashery.
But
they also find on the store’s lower level an array of the goods Mr.
Snyder produces in collaboration with heritage brands he likes —
including PF Flyers and Superior bags — along with a selection of
vintage watches, fine cameras, art books, furniture, whiskeys and just
about anything else that catches his practiced eye.
“That’s
just something I’ve always been good at, making those connections,” Mr.
Snyder said. “I found companies that never did collaborations before
were pretty open to me. They weren’t threatened. Maybe it’s just an Iowa
thing.”
While
forTatsuya Takaku, creative director of Anglobal Ltd. — which is
supporting Mr. Snyder’s Japanese adventure — the Liquor Store concept
was the designer’s initial selling point, it was the prospect of
developing a new American designer for a market fixated on things with a
Made in the U.S.A. label that held the most appeal.
“As
Japanese, we are always eager to find another American designer,
because we’re fascinated by American stuff,” Mr. Takaku said. “Japanese
guys love Todd because he has such great basic offerings, but also
because he can recommend a tuxedo jacket with terry cloth sweatpants.”
They
apparently love him enough that, soon after his first store opened, he
opened a second in Osaka, with plans underway to expand to Kyoto and
Yokohama and other cities within the year.
“His
is the classic overnight success that’s not an overnight success,” said
Steven Kolb, executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of
America, who is relying on Mr. Snyder as one of the anchor designers for
the weeklong men’s wear presentations in New York this month.
“Todd
comes across like a very calm big brother,” Mr. Kolb said, adding that,
unlike certain critical darlings whose businesses sputter once the
initial hype has burned off, he is “mature and business focused, and
that’s a good thing.”
Men
of the millennial generation are in a “discovery phase” in their
relationship to fashion, said Mr. Snyder, probably the only designer in
the business to have spent his teenage summers detasseling corn. “They
want to discover you, and then they need to know you’ll stand the test
of time,” he said.
While the Japanese are the early adopters in the case of Mr. Snyder, it seems inevitable the homegrown market will follow.
“Todd
Snyder corresponds with the tastes of a Japanese young generation, in a
sense of making quite easy, relaxed, but at the same time quite
detailed clothing,” said Masafumi Suzuki, the editor of GQ Japan.
“That
is the attitude that rings the bell with a young Japanese man,” said
Mr. Suzuki, who could just as easily have been describing young
Americans.