7 posts tagged "Julien David"
Julien David Delivers Menswear With a Kick
French-born Julien David is still based in Tokyo, but his home country is giving him a warm welcome. He’s just come off winning the ANDAM, the French syndicate’s annual up-and-comers prize, and this season, his menswear made it onto the runway for the first time, where his women’s has been for several seasons. It spurred him to grow up, but not much. His Fall collection had a lot to do with suits, but “I wanted to do my suits,” he clarified. They were proportioned like the streetwear he’s championed, stretched long and loose, as if they’d been made from taffy. “Often high fashion for men can be too classic or too dark and dramatic,” he said. “My goal is to take some references from streetwear and inject them at the right places in my designs, trying to find the right balance.”
His suits, as it turned out, were witty, wearable approximations of the stuffier versions paraded throughout Paris and Milan this month. Textured in Tencel, wool flannel, and wool serge, they had a Muppet fuzziness thanks to the addition of Alpaca. Playful use of Japanese fabrics like these gave the collection kick. And if they had kick, the full roundhouse was delivered by what David called “crazy check” shirts: long-haired plaids woven in reverse so they tufted up—the flannel in IMAX 3-D.
Get The Look: It’s A Wrap
The winter conundrum: Keep warm or keep chic. Cold-weather-proof clothing is often the antithesis of fashionable, but December through March is not a lost cause. Take a cue from models-off-duty Frida Gustavsson and Jacquelyn Jablonski, who added a little something extra to their look with colorful printed scarves. Get their look with four of our favorite pieces from Isabel Marant, Givenchy, Jil Sander, and more, below.
From left, above:
1. Isabel Marant scarf, $280, available at www.netaporter.com
2. Jil Sander scarf, $282, available at www.mytheresa.com
3. Julien David scarf, $305, available at www.farfetch.com
4. Givenchy scarf, $680, available at www.barneys.com
Julien David Takes The ANDAM
Emmanuelle Alt, Sarah Andelman, Renzo Rosso, and other jurors on this year’s Andam Fashion Award panel, myself included, gathered at the Ritz in Paris this afternoon to choose this year’s winner. In the running for the €230,000 prize were Cédric Charlier, Julien David, Vika Gazinskaya, Calla Haynes, Nicolas Andreas Taralis, and Thomas Tait. As ever, it was a cosmopolitan crew, with designers hailing from Belgium, Russia, Canada, and Germany, but David, the competition’s Frenchman, came out ahead. (A look from his well-received Fall ’12 show is pictured, left.)
For the moment, the designer’s business is based in Japan, but he’ll be spending more time on his native soil—the award requires the recipient to found and operate a company in France. Despite being an expat nearly half of his life—David left home at 18 to study at Parsons in New York and worked for Narciso Rodriguez and Ralph Lauren—he professed excitement at the prospect of coming home. “I had ideas I couldn’t execute in Japan because money was an issue,” he said. “I want to expand the collection concept, especially into areas that are unique to France, like embroideries.” The Prize Ceremony will take place tomorrow evening at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
The young women behind the one-year-old label Piece d’Anarchive—sisters Priscilla and Déborah Royer and Virginie Muys—won ANDAM’s First Collection Award, which comes with a €60,000 check. The trio said they’ll use the funds to put on a September presentation of their Spring 2013 collection, which jurors got a sneak peek at. Newbies they may be, but they didn’t lack for presentation skills. Describing the sports-influenced collection, Priscilla evocatively promised “discipline dancing with ecstasy.”
Thomas Tait, Vika Gazinskaya, And Calla Haynes Make The ANDAM Finalist List
ANDAM’s 24-judge panel announced the six finalists for this year’s Fashion Award. On the list: Thomas Tait (who also took home the prestigious Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize in 2010 ); up-and-comer Julien David; Calla Haynes (who has been nominated for the ANDAM before); designer-slash-street-style-star Vika Gazinskaya; Cedric Charlier; and Nicolas Andreas Taralis. The judges, a group that includes Style.com’s executive editor Nicole Phelps, Humberto Leon, Emmanuelle Alt, The Daily Telegraph fashion editor Lisa Armstrong, and Virginie Mouzat, will meet in July with the finalists to select the winner. The prize, which has previously gone to the likes of Hakaan Yildirim, Giles Deacon, and last year, Anthony Vaccarello, is a total of €600,000, €10,000 worth of Swarovski crystals to use for their Spring 2013 collection, mentorship from LVMH CEO Pierre-Yves Roussel, and support from the Hudson’s Bay Company to buy the Spring 2013 collection. Stay tuned for the winner, to be announced this summer. All six of them, however, will have a space on www.thecorner.com in September to showcase and sell their collections. Pictured, a look from Tait’s Fall 2012 collection.
Colette’s Sweet 15
What do you do when another chic, Champagne-filled bash just doesn’t cut it anymore? Well, if you’re Colette, the Paris superstore that has been packing the coolest fashion, art, and music into one irresistible shopping experience since 1997, turning 15 calls for extraordinary measures. So Colette’s founder, Sarah Andelman, followed suit and thought big for the store’s 15th anniversary celebrations.
This weekend, Colette set up shop in the Tuileries and filled a large tent with 120 stands, manned by brands like Carven, Kenzo, Comme des Garçons, Ed Banger Records, Olympia Le-Tan, and Yazbukey, for its Colette Carnaval, which drew 20,000 people over two days. Inside, it was an old-school (free) carnival, with everything from do-it-yourself piñata-making, a kissing booth, and a photo session with a real live French Barbie, to glow-in-the-dark hula-hooping with Hudson Jeans, a ring toss for a chance to score a flannel hard cap from Julien David, and toy-duck shooting with Carhartt.
Colette’s own stand was doing brisk business, with its Carnaval logo T-shirts and iPhone covers for sale, along with several nail bars and makeup stands, and hamburgers from Paris’s legendary Le Camion Qui Fume. Luck You Art Collective’s Louis Shannon was also in the mix with a 10-euro-per-shirt atelier, and by 6 p.m. on Sunday, all 100 of them were sold out. Shannon, who has been silk-screening shirts since he was 12, met Andelman “on the street in Soho when I was 16,” he tells Style.com. “She liked our shirts, and she’s followed us ever since.”