Game Face
The gridiron faceoff was fierce yesterday for Super Bowl Sunday, but so was the catwalk competition at ACW Worldwide’s model call for the casting agency’s Fall 2011 New York shows. The lithe and the leggy arrived to try for a spot on the New York runways (ACW casts Thakoon, Y-3, and Jen Kao, among others), [...]
In Paris, Toasting Ten Years of Yohji At Adidas
It’s been ten years since Yohji Yamamoto first collaborated with Adidas, a collaboration which eventually became the full Y-3 collection. On the last night of men’s fashion week in Paris, Adidas set out to celebrate the decennial at the city’s Maison des Métallos, where sneakers from throughout the partnership’s history were on display and a [...]
Y-3’s Cup Runneth Over
With the World Cup fast approaching, there’s been a veritable scrimmage of fashion labels racing to cash in on soccer mania. Not Y-3, which has been feeling footer since the beginning—but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to a little timely expansion. The Yohji Yamamoto-designed, Adidas-produced label recently opened its doors in Hong Kong, inaugurating a [...]
The L.E.S. Gets A New Eco Outpost
For anyone looking to stock up on Mother Nature-approved wares for Earth Day, we suggest a stop at Nimli’s pop-up store at 2 Great Jones Street in Manhattan. The first retail outpost for the five-year-old “green lifestyle” Web site opened this weekend and runs through May 17. Our picks? Ashley Watson’s rugged totes refashioned from [...]
Y-3’s Concept Crowd
The last time we saw Jeremy Scott he was channeling Tony the Tiger—or rather, wearing one of Tony’s more ferocious-looking cousins—in a tracksuit, so we weren’t that surprised to catch him in spots at last night’s Y-3 retail space at the Adidas Brand Center. Scott, whose not-yet-for-sale gold-winged kicks for Adidas are already cult faves, [...]






