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Archive for July 2nd, 2008
Alright, we apologize for the delay (apparently Creative has switched their inventory system and shipments have been slow to get out), but we just got in the last of the Summer ‘08 shipment. Yeah, it seems like Summer is really just here, but in the shoe biz Fall kicks off soon…like now. Anyway, here are two more solid styles from the talents at Creative Rec:
Creative Recreation - Dicoco Lo, Black Blue Pink ($95)
Creative Recreation - Cesario Hi, Black White Purple ($105)
You can’t really tell, but the white toe box and tongue on the Cesario Hi’s is patent leather. Also, the Toe-box on the Dicoco Los is sueded leather, so both have some great details. Like all Creative Rec shipments, PLEASE CALL so we can hold your size. We don’t want you to be disappointed when we are sold out of your size and can’t special order anything.
We will be closed this Friday the 4th to observe the most awesome of Summer holidays. It’s not like you are going to be working either…
In an extraordinary collaboration, Louis Vuitton, the ultimate French luxury brand, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, the ultimate fashion rebel, will open a joint Tokyo store in September — an ephemeral three-month space where six one-off bags, designed by Kawakubo in LV monogram pattern, can be ordered by shoppers.
Yves Carcelle, chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton, sitting front row at Kawakubos’ show on Friday, said that he was approached by Comme and considers the project a fine way to celebrate 30 years since Vuitton first opened in Tokyo.
Backstage, Kawakubo said that memory of her excitement at the arrival of Parisian luxury in Japan in 1978, resulted in this unlikely idea of the new design duo creating the store within the Comme des Garçons shop off Omotesando.
For Comme acolytes, this move will be considered either as sleeping with the enemy — or a brilliant and imaginative partnership.
Kawakubo has re-designed the entire Comme des Garçons store on Kottodori, Omotesando for the Vuitton project. Carcelle says that LV is investing in the store, and that any financial profits will be divided.
Although there have been many recent collaborations between ‘high’ and ‘low’ fashion, starting with Karl Lagerfeld’s mini collection for fast fashion store H & M, this meld is different, since it involves a beacon of individuality with a company at the heart of corporate luxury management, as part of the LVMH (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton) group.
Carcelle said that Marc Jacobs, artistic director of Louis Vuitton, admired Comme des Garçons and was an enthusiastic supporter of the idea of a joint venture.
“It is impossible to overstate Rei Kawakubo’s influence on modern fashion,” Jacobs said in a prepared statement, ‘I find it wonderful to think that 30 years ago, this immense talent, someone who has inspired so many others, was inspired by Louis Vuitton.”
Kawakubo described her designs as ‘party’ bags, promising multi-handles or two handles morphing into one. All will use the Monogram toile, with the LV initials, and the offerings will hark back to the styles of 30 years when Vuitton made only bags and leather goods.
Via NYT.
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