I like how this lookbook is shot, great work.

- GQ

Undercover with a single store (called Nowhere, in the trendy Tokyo shopping district Harajuku), he's kept the retail outlets opening across his native country (more than 30, at last count). To Takahashi, though, it's just one interest of many—he also counts animation, photography, and doll-making among his passions.

- NYtimes interview

A few months ago, you relaunched Nowhere — your first retail experience from about 15 years ago, in collaboration with Nigo — at Dover Street Market in London. It seems that everyone is doing collaborations these days, including Rei Kawakubo with her almost simultaneous teaming with Louis Vuitton & H&M, and now Jil Sander for Uniqlo. What do you think of those?

I find their collaborations far too business-oriented. In the early ’90s, when there was no such thing as a category called collaboration in the fashion industry, I worked with Nigo just because we were very good friends and wanted to create something purely out of interest. We just enjoyed working together without thinking of our activity as business. Under the current difficult economic situation, such collaborations between the big maisons have impact. But to me, they seem to lack a pure intention to pursue something for fun or creativity. In other words, their collaborations are productive only in terms of business. If you ask me whether or not I’m interested in such kind of collaboration, my answer would have to be “no.”

His mens line AW09

Raf Simons used to be one of my favorite designers. He recently aired a new website. I think the website communicates his brand pretty well. The archive selection has some good music.
- rafsimons.com

I miss Helmut Lang in Fashion.

- Wikipedia

Helmut Lang (born March 10, 1956, Vienna), is an Austrian artist, known for his simple, elegant and urban clothing designs.The fashion label he created, Helmut Lang, still exists today but is carried on without Mr. Lang's involvement since resigning from the house that bears his name in 2005. The influence that Lang has had on fashion in the last three decades is undeniable.

Images from catwalking

- Experience

About four years ago, in a men's store
called Camouflage, in Chelsea, I tried on some trousers. They were perfectly ordinary-looking thin-wale corduroys, and yet something about them was different: the fabric was softer, the color was slightly subtler than basic black. The pants were unpleated, the rise was high, the leg slim. There was a loop for the button over the rear pocket, and an inner waist button-details you don't often find on sportswear. Was this fashion? Perhaps, but it was hidden; only I would know. The label was inside, too, small and not at all logomaniacal--just the words "Helmut Lang" in black on white. It seemed intended to evoke the "tickets" you find inside bespoke suits from made-to-measure tailors. The pants cost a hundred and twenty dollars--not bad, asdesigner clothes go. I bought them.

Images from catwalking

Helmut Lang had awesome simple and effective branding, which I still respect to this day, His cosmetics and advertising where beautifully designed.

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His old New York store was amazing. by gluckman mayner

Noon Passama is a jewellery designer from Thailand. She now studies at the Rietveld academy.

What is "precious"? Looking at any tangible object, what makes you consider something "precious"? What kind of quality would connect it to our pre-perception of preciousness?Is it something glittering, shiny, delicate, or with colours relating to precious metal, etc.?
This jewellery collection took these questions as the starting point. The collection bases on classical jewellery silhouettes, which refers to precious objects depending on wearer's historical background, from outlines of crown jewel necklaces tosimple forms of chains. The work maintains its original silhouette, but discarded any normally expected details. The necklaces details were blended together to form a piece constructed
with facetsof different shapes and angles made of colour dyed fur, which creates contrast to our skin. Each piece has been deliberately enlarged to enhance its appearance.

Materials: Brass (14K gold plated, copper plated, and oxidized), Horse skin

Jewellery by Noon Passama and Ek Thongprasert
- Ek Thongprasert