Monday, May 23, 2011

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.