MANGO turns 60

The collection was filled with classic cuts in easy-to-wear colors like black, white, red and navy. There were just enough design details in the wardrobe staples — leather tuxedo stripes on pants, a wrinkled effect on a golden suit, or puffs of feathers on a white lace T-shirt — to give the outfits some personality. The judicious mix of practical and party clothes showed a well-thought-out line for a fashionable young woman on a budget, with prices at around €70, or about $100, for a cream blazer and €160 for a maxi evening dress. (NYTIMES)

Check out their new collections here:

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Wo/Mens Wear: Salvor Projects

Re-defining the Clothed street:

Specializing in screen prints, they hope to cater to a range of customers from the Madison Avenue woman interested in a graphic tote bag to your average skateboarder looking for a printed shirt. ( T Magazine)

         "simultaneously daring yet utterly wearable quality"  (NBC)

The line focuses on prints, hand-applied in Salvor’s Manhattan studio, and overlaid on traditional men’s shirts, Cone Denim jeans, and gauzy silk dresses. Oversized scarves are printed with vintage photos: some with swooping eagles, others with William Burroughs (who lived for much of his old age just across the street) brandishing a gun. (It’s the first time the Burroughs Foundation has approved and licensed the use of his image.) “We wanted to make things we couldn’t buy,” Menuez explains simply. From the silver-coated Bowie-esque jeans to shirting-fabric anoraks so overprinted the material feels like technical nylon, there’s little chance you could buy them before he dreamed them—and less chance still you’ll find them anywhere else.

check them out at: http://www.salvorprojects.com/

Retail Spotting: Hugo Boss Re-opens in Soho

What makes a store manly?

 

In light of the re-opening of the Hugo Boss store in Soho, it somehow jerked the question of how men's brands make their stores appealing to men. Although there's a growing number of men-shoppers, retailers still are very careful, if not safe, when it comes to designing their men's wears stores.

Just makes you wonder why...does it always have to look soooo...industrial?



5CM store



or is it really just a man thing?

Wish upon a brand a day

There are always so many rumors about H&M coming to Manila,

and if they actually are coming in by 2011- 

The truth is simply (and it is a fact) that it probably wont be happening soon.

So for now, this brand will have to stay on our wish list..

Just a thought though, if H&M does come to Manila,

which of your current brands will you give up/ replace the big retailer with?