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Fashion Forecast for Pre-fall 2011

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Matching socks with shoes and slacks

There seems to be an ongoing debate about whether socks should match shoes or slacks. I believe GQ has said socks should match slacks, but does that apply only to certain color combinations? I wear khakis and black shoes with tan socks. My friends say the socks should be black to match the shoes. Please advise.

My advice is, never listen to your friends. If you’re going for a very formal look, you should wear black socks with a black suit, navy with navy. If you like, you can match your socks with your trousers, as you’re doing. But matching socks with your shoes isn’t such a smooth move. It will make your beautiful, expensive shoes more invisible, or you’ll look as if you have bootees on. But socks can also go their own way. If you’re going sporty, you might have them reflect the color of your shirt or sweater. Or you can feature independent socks, like argyles, as long as they’re part of the same spectrum as the rest of your gear. If you’re wearing a suit, the socks could reflect the color of your tie or pocket square. Or they could be another color altogether, as long as it matches the rest of your look in tonality and subtlety. There’s no reason at all that socks should be a solid block of color. Among my favorites are my navy socks with small white polka dots, a pair of brown herringbone socks and some black socks with small red Devil heads on them. They add a little spark when I’m wearing my black suit and a black shirt. At least I won’t be mistaken for a priest.

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Great Articles: London Underground

As more and more trends are beginning to declare a new culture for "hanging out", such as the previous article I sent in about pop-up parties in New York, the exponential growth in re-inventing shacks, old factories, and shady restaurants to new relaxed nirvana for different kinds of sub-cultures is truly starting to spark my curiosity in the future of retail.

While the past 10 years has revealed the globalization of retailing, the trend of its evolution is starting to seem as if it jumped completely off-track from the previous mass-market, big-branding retail (i.e. Starbucks) phenomena into a new kind of its sort. Something more niche, less branded-just simple retail created and located in places that directly target the kind of people they envision in their store.

Also, while this retailing trend is still very young, the fact that it is slowly starting to appear in different cities around the world (Manila included) is definitely a factor to be considered. The article below is a blog post is another example of this new retail culture, one that is currently taking place in a building beside and beneath a flyover:

Source: NYTimes

London Underground | Canal Plus

By ELIAS REDSTONE

June 30, 2011, 3:13 pm

Folly for a Flyover, located beneath the A12 highway in London, acts as a cafe as well as a venue for local artists.

A rather peculiar building has appeared next to a canal in Hackney Wick, London. Just outside the future Olympics site, and shoehorned beneath the underpass of the A12 highway, “Folly for a Flyover” is the work of Assemble, a young collective of designers, artists and architects. The red brick structure — with a roof that peaks out between the eastbound and westbound lanes of highway above — was constructed by volunteers from reclaimed and donated materials. On the weekends the Folly houses a cafe, workshops and performances. Adventurous visitors can rent handmade rowboats from a small dock on the canal. In the evenings, from Friday to Sunday, there is a bar and an adjacent auditorium space underneath the highway, which hosts a series of screenings curated by the Barbican Art Gallery as part of its current exhibition “Watch Me Move: The Animation Show.”

Assemble came together in 2010, motivated by the need to break away from the formal language and processes of architectural practice. Its first project was the transformation of a derelict garage on Clerkenwell Road in central London into a temporary cinema, “The Cineroleum.” The Folly is more ambitious — and more public. It came into being thanks to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Create Art Award — set up to support participatory art projects — and will no doubt give people a new perspective on this underused and underappreciated location.

Studio Weave and Somewhere finish the Floating Cinema’s construction.  It will be moored at Folly for a Flyover on July 9, prepared with a full day of programming.

Another canal-side project popping up this summer is the Floating Cinema. Designed by the architects Studio Weave (who also designed the very long bench in the seaside town of Littlehampton) and the artist duo Somewhere (Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie), the cinema-on-a-boat will travel around London with a program of intimate on-board screenings as well as larger, outdoor waterside events.
And, in a beautiful moment of synchronicity, the Floating Cinema will be moored next to the Folly for a Flyover on July 9, with a full day of programming.