12/28/2015

This is $100,000,000 penthouse in New York City

If you pay $100,000,000 to live in New York City, this is the quality and view you will get.

Is it worth it to you or not? 

 
 
 
 
 
 



You literally pay for the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and Freedom Tower, all in one shot.

This is the $100,000,000 view for you.

By the way, the space is 30,000 square feet, 13 feet high ceiling, and at 1,400 feet above ground top floor.


Still too much.........





12/23/2015

tokyo: cpcm store opening

 
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].

text by: superfuture 


HAPPY HOLIDAYS

 

                           Wishing you Happy and Prosperous New Year

                                                                                                                        absolute te-ma & company


 

12/13/2015

Mobil 1 – ‘240 cm challenge’ with Jenson Button

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.


He is great and crazy.


12/10/2015

Entube for everyone

Entube Harissa paste

My friend, Richard has made much stylish tube for everyone to tube it for any kind of food literally. 

Harissa is 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.

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Need a stocking stuffer for someone who’s addicted to Sriracha? Get them hooked on North African harissa from Entube 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.









12/08/2015

HOLIDAY 2015 WINTER MAGIC GIFT KING AND QUEEN - BARNEYS NEW YORK

And this is the window art making video for BARNEYS JAPAN for Holiday 2015.


"WINTER MAGIC GIFT KING AND QUEEN"


Happy Holidays!


ニューヨークのバーニーズ、日本のバーニーズ。どちらも、いつも素晴らしいイマジネーションで、皆を魅了させてくれますよね。


私見になりますが、まだまだ日本のファッションストアーは、ビジュアルマーチャンダイジングにこだわりを持つ 所が少ないような気がします。


もっとウインドーショッピングを楽しましょう!


ハッピーホリデー!



12/07/2015

Barneys New York Holiday 2015 | CHILLIN' OUT


BARNEYS NEW YORK offers such unique/fun window every holiday season.

This year spectacular events "CHILLIN' OUT" will make you realize you are in New York City and enjoying every moment of it.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS from BARNEYS NEW YORK


12/04/2015

Saturdays Opens First Australian Flagship Store in Bondi Beach


 

 

About

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.
 
text from: saturdaysnyc.com 
 
                                             おめでとう!!
 
 
 
 
 

11/11/2015

US Military Unveils Most Advanced Fighter Jet, F35B Lightning II

You gotta see this next generation fighter jet.

You probably should not mess with these guys.


I love to go for a test ride with Maverick.......

By the way, who is the enemy US military has in mind?


11/09/2015

Saturdays Tote Bag

Blind Barber at THE TOWNHOUSE







NY発の気鋭バーバーショップ、BLIND BARBERのポップアップ・バーバーがTODD SNYDER
TOWNHOUSEで開催!  BLIND BARBER COFFEE SHOPもオープン!

2010年にニューヨーク・マンハッタンで誕生した理髪店、BLIND BARBER(ブラインド・バーバー)はその名の通り、バーやカフェに密かに併設されたバーバーショップというユニークなコンセプトと、クラシックなワー クスタイルをモダンに進化させた先鋭的なスタイルで、今、アメリカで最も注目されている理髪店。
現在、NYとブルックリン、LAに店舗を構え、クールなローカルコミュニティの社交場として、モダンジェンツやジェントルウーマンたちから愛されています。

そんなブラインド・バーバーが、来る11月6日(金)より、トッド スナイダー・タウンハウス(東京・渋谷)、トッド スナイダー・ライブラリー(EMA大阪)、トッド スナイダー・ニューヨーク(京都・藤井大丸)にて、各店、一夜限りのポップアップ・バーバー&パーティを開催します。

本イベントでは、ブラインド・バーバーのCEOであるジェフ・ロウ、および、トップ理髪師、ロブ・マクミレンが来日。本国でも予約困難といわれるロブのヘアカットを、各店5名様限定(しかも無料!)で体験して頂ける、スーパー・エクスクルーシブな機会です。




さらに、同じく11月6日(金)より、トッド スナイダー・タウンハウス2FにBLIND BARBER COFFEE SHOP & BARがオープン。さらに、同フロアには、BLIND BARBERほか新進グルーミングブランドを扱うグルーミングコーナーも新設。BLIND BARBERのユニークなグルーミングプロダクトはもちろん、オリジナルのTシャツやキャップなどのグッズも展開します。

<BLIND BARBER POP-UP EVENT & PARTY>
11月6日(金)7-9PM TODD SNYDER TOWNHOUSE
11月7日(土)5-7PM TODD SNYDER LIBRARY
11月8日(日)5-7PM TODD SNYDER NEWYORK
*ヘアカットは各店先着5名様となります。詳細は各店舗に直接お問い合わせください。

スタッフ一同、ご来店お待ちしております。





11/03/2015

American Eagle acquires Todd Snyder (Tailgate Clothing)


 
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. 

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                                  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. 

text by GQ.com




Todd Snyderが、American Eagleの傘下に入る事になりました。

これにより、Todd Snyderブランドは勿論の事、Todd自身が続けている、カレッジt-shirtラインのTailgateというブランド展開が加速される事になります。

ブランド展開とは、販路が拡大すると言う事になり、Todd Snyder, Tailgateの旗艦店もオープンする事になります。ご存知の通り、Todd Snyderのショップは、まだ日本のみとなりますが、今後はニューヨークショップに向けて、既に始動しています。

先日、Toddと出店候補地の協議をしました。お互いに意見が異なりましたが、最後はToddのお店ですから、彼が決めることでしょう。どちらにせよ、東京のTOWNHOUSEに負けないフラッグシップショップが出来ることは、間違いありません。

現時点では、来年秋頃のオープン予定で進んでいます。

これも、American Eagleの資金力のお陰です。

今回のビジネスディールは、Todd Snyder, Tailgateブランドにとって、大きなステップになると思います。

私も株主の一人として、万歳!!な気分です。

今後とも、Todd Snyder, Tailgateを宜しくお願いいたします。

万歳!!



10/23/2015

TODD SNYDER 2016 S/S TOKYO COLLECTION

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 for PETER SUTHERLAND collaboration, PRINT ALL OVER ME X VARIOUS PROJECT event at BIOTOP.

For TODD SNYDER, we had runway show on the first day for the TOKYO 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......

again, thank you JAPAN!!


10/02/2015

SATURDAYS X PETER SUTHERLAND

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SATURDAYS名古屋の1周年を記念し、フォトグラファー、Peter Sutherlandとのコラボレーションアイテムが10月10日(土)より[SATURDAYS(サタデーズ)]の直営店にて発売される。

同コラボレーションでは、[SATURDAYS]定番のTシャツ・ロングスリーブTシャツ・フーデッドパーカにシルキーで上質なペルー産のピマコットンを使用し、Peterの独創的な作品をプリント。

Peterによるアパレルへの作品提供は非常に珍しく、[SATURDAYS]とのコミュニティから生まれた見逃せないアイテムだ。

【お問い合わせ先】
SATURDAYS 代官山 TEL:03-5459-5033
SATURDAYS 名古屋 TEL:052-265-6447
SATURDAYS 神戸 TEL:078-381-7450
SATURDAYS 大阪 TEL:06-4963-3711

 6,000円 + 税
 8,000円 + 税
 16,000円 + 税

9/22/2015

TODD SNYDER at TOKYO FASHION WEEK




日本ファッション・ウィーク推進機構は10月12日~18日に開催する2016年春夏「メルセデス・ベンツ ファッション・ウィーク 東京(MBFWT)」の参加ブランドを発表した。参加検討中を含め計49ブランドがファッションショーやインスタレーションを行なう。

まず、海外からはメンズの「トッド スナイダー」が初めて東京でコレクションを発表。「プチバトー」やアジア人デザイナー団体「ファッション ホンコン」「アジア ファッション ミーツ トーキョー」などの参加も決定している。

トッドスナイダーは、トップバッター!!東京コレクションは、トッドスナイダーで始まる。

TODD SNYDER will start off the Tokyo Fashion Week on 10/12.
He is an invited designer to liven up the event and we are very honored to participate.

He is a lead-off man!

We will see you very soon.

Here we come Japan!!




PRINT ALL OVER ME / VARIOUS PROJECTS installation at BIOTOP




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?

▼詳しくはこちら
http://www.biotop.jp/news/#4032
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9/16/2015

NIGEL SYLVESTER - 'GO!' | New York City

I

I love this film by Nigel Sylvester.



Nigel captures the real side of New York City we live in and make it cool and not trying hard.



Nigel the man and should follow him.


9/14/2015

Raw Run: Zak Maytum

Well what can I say, 70 mph, no protections, crazy.

But I am fascinated by its ride.



8/27/2015

POCKET shop opens today


Comme des Garcons

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





CPCM

熊谷隆志による複合型ショップが原宿「チャオパニック」跡地にオープン

THU, AUG 27, 2015
 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。

 また新たなトレンドが生まれますね。

 是非、宜しくお願いいたします。


8/21/2015

TODD SNYDER store in Kyoto opens today


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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。





8/17/2015

SATURDAYS NYC e-commerce starts for Japan




SATURDAYS NYC for Japan will launch the e-commerce site on August.21!!   


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「SATURDAYS(サタデーズ)」が、15Fall Collectionを発売。洗練されたデザインに機能性を備えたコレクションには、インナーダウンベスト、スウェット素材のスタジアムジャケット、アン クルパンツ、スエードレザーのウォレット・クラッチポーチ等がさらに着こなしの幅を広げてくれる。新たなコラボレーションとして、ニューヨークで活躍する 二人のフォトグラファーKava Gorna(カヴァ・ゴルナ)、Renato D’Agostin(レナート・ディアゴスティン)との作品も発表。T-シャツやスニーカーなどに彼らの作品をプリントしたアイテムが展開される。また、 8月21日にサタデーズオフィシャルの日本語対応ECサイトが遂にオープン。最新のコレクションのフルラインナップに加え、サーフボードやウェットスー ツ、アートブック、グルーミングアイテム、コーヒー豆など豊富なアイテムを展開。オープン記念として、8月31日までFree shippingも実施される。「SATURDAYS」の最新コレクションをお見逃しなく。


8/14/2015

NEW YORK FASHION WEEK SS16'

NY Fashion Week: Men’s SS16 Schedule

DONE WITH NEW YORK MEN'S FASHION WEEK, NOW MOVE ONTO WOMEN'S FASHION WEEK. WE WORK NON-STOP, VERY EXCITED.









7/19/2015

BARNEYS NEW YORK blog by Junko Takaku (culture)

#(HASHTAG) NEW YORK! Vol.8

#(HASHTAG) NEW YORK! Vol.8

VERY BARNEYS!なニューヨーク情報を現地在住の高久純子さんがお伝えいたします。
MEAT PACKING AREA UPDATE!
ほんの数十年前までここは、場末感を色濃く残した、観光客にとっては無関係のエリアだった。
「ミートパッキング」というその名の通り、かつ てこのエリアは、マンハッタン随一の食肉市場があり、現在残っているビルのほとんどが、精肉業者の作業場だったのだが、現在はその面影はどこにもない。そ して、このエリアの劇的な変貌ぶりを、地元ニューヨーカーたちも驚嘆をもって見守っている。
そんなミートパッキングエリアに、あの米国現代美術の殿堂ホイットニー美術館がやってきた!同エリア再開発のきっかけともなった空中遊歩道「ハイラ インパーク」のスタート地点に、今年5月1日に華々しくオープンしたホイットニー美術館は、以前の2倍の面積を誇る広々としたつくりになっている。美術館 然とした、敷居の高さを一切感じさせないオープンなデザインは、ポンピドゥセンターやエルメス銀座店などを手がけた建築家によるもの。各階に大きな窓があ り、ハイラインパークを含めた摩天楼が一望できるとあって、すでに大混雑の夜景スポットにもなっている。美術館1Fにあるカリスマシェフ、ダニー・マイ ヤー氏のレストラン「UNTITLED」も、たちまちのうちに、ランチ・ディナーともに予約至難に!かしこまって美術館鑑賞というよりは、「気軽におしゃ れにアートを楽しもう」という提案に、ホイットニー美術館の新たな方向性を感じることができる。



美術館の並びには、話題の食べ歩き天国「GANSEVOORT MARKET」が昨年末にオープン。フードコートと呼ぶには、おしゃれ過ぎるこのスポットは、NYの歴史的建造物にも指定されている200年の歴史がある ビルを改築したもの。ここには、ホイットニー美術館を訪れた人々が吸い込まれるように立ち寄る。それもそのはず、人々のお目あては、話題のNYフードベン ダー。東海岸で取れた新鮮なロブスターをふんだんに使ったロブスターロールで有名な「LOBSTER BAR」や、最近NY的進化をとげて注目のクレープ専門店「CRAPE SUCRE」など、厳選されたラインナップが魅力。自然光が差し込むコミューナルテーブルのイートインコーナーは、平日でさえ常に満員の賑わいぶり。




ノスタルジックな街の佇まいが旅気分を盛り上げ、最新の食やアートが感性を刺激するミートパッキングエリアは、ますます旅人たちを魅了するエリアに発展している。
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COVER: View from Gansevoort Street. Photographed by Ed Lederman, 2015.
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7/17/2015

Todd Snyder Spring/Summer 2016 | New York Fashion Week: Men's

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.


7/15/2015

Todd Snyder in NEW YORK TIMES

Todd Snyder, a Designer Raised in Iowa, Is Big in Japan




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A 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.

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 for Tatsuya 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.

7/9付けのNEW YORK TIMESに、Todd Snyderが大きく取り上げられました。
Todd Snyderブランドが、着実に日本市場で、認知されているといった内容です。

手前味噌ながら、私もJapan Creative Directorとして、インタビューを受けました。でもAnGlobal社のCreative Directorではないですけど。。。。(笑)