SHOWnews: Virgil Abloh's Final Design, Matt Dillon In Leather and More
Kim K In Roberto Cavalli, Roberto Cavalli At Selfridges
Did you see Kim Kardashian up in Roberto Cavalli, up on Chris Appleton this week? No not from her show! In Italy! While you can’t see the face, you just know those shoulders belong to Kim K’s hair husband.
Anyway, while Kim is serving Resort 25, her look is a helpful reminder to pop over to Selfridges this weekend for the Cavalli by Fausto Puglisi pre-fall pop-up. Let 5-tiered leather fringe and camp cowboy motifs captivate your Cavalli moment over 70 meters of Cavalli luxury. Puglisi’s Spaghetti Western theme takes a detour onto Selfridges’ walls to add a dash of the collection’s bandana prints with a soft cushion effect. The pop-up also pops in five Roberto Cavalli archive moments on glass case display from the early 00s. So be inspired by Kim Kardashian. Indulge your work ethics, family concerns be damned! Be tireless. Go land a hair husband. Go to Selfridges. Wear Cavalli.
Virgil Abloh’s Final Shoe Is A Kick, Push Testament
Off-White™ is outspoken this summer about collective wellness and sports engagement. By announcing the new VULCANIZED 779 (VULC 779) trainer, Off-White™ restates its own existence by democratising a new, global group that reduces the somewhat selective spirit of subcultural communities. The VULC 779 is a symbol both for (youth cults) and against (subcultural mores) values that its founder, Virgil Abloh, saw in skate subcultures. Design-wise the VULC 779 — itself a vulcanised iteration of Vans Lo Pro-inspired Off-White™ trainers from six years ago — retains fundamental incorporation of the design and performance materials a legitimate skate shoe should have. Next, Off-White™ planned a series of community-driven installations to pay forward the values that directly inspired Abloh's VULC 779. The VULC 779 pre-launch started at Selfridges for their summer sports extravaganza Sportopia, where visitors participated in a panel talk about ‘The Power of Skate Culture in Pop Culture.’ On July 18 the VULC 779 traveled to the menswear shop Four Amsterdam and will end its tour this week in Milan, at END, where Off-White™ merchandises window and in-store displays. Milano skaters are invited to use a custom skate part built directly outside the shop. Envisioning an Off-White™ modular platform with direct, authentic interaction with youth culture was Virgil Abloh’s intent. The VULC was the last sneaker he designed. In memoriam, the VULC 779 gets immortalised through core values he found necessary while it gets its title from the 7-7-9 area code representing Abloh’s hometown of Rockford, Illinois.
MCM AI Campaign Sends Matt Dillon To Another Planet
German fashion house MCM has spent the year serving creative needs any digital native can imagine. Their new campaign imagery accompanies a collection titled ‘From München to Mars,’ a testament to MCM’s infusion of AI to innovate designs using thoughtfully sustainable methods. As MCM is known for their ubiquitous accessories, ‘From München To Mars’ is centred by the new Diamant 3D bag. MCM global creative director Katie Chung rethought the classic MCM clutch by updating dimensionality and weight to balance style and function.
Collier Schorr places the Diamant 3D in desirable contexts with its collection range featured on actor Matt Dillon, top model Steph Shiu and actress Zelda Adams. Notice Steph in a full Cognac Visetos uniform of MCM offerings in luxurious calf leather with industrial zips and multi-use cargo options. Matt Dillon epitomises MCM’s blending of visual flexibility in an eyewear, navy calf one moment that jumps to sleek black pebble leather with a matte handle finish the next. The full collection is available in MCM stores globally and online right now.
Bettter Partners With FILA Partner For A Doubles Match
As the Wimbledon tournament ends, the Bettter x FILA curated collection serves an ace to reconsider history and the way we view eras. While Bettter tends to address global waste by re-tailoring deadstock clothes as made-to-measure womenswear, this time their team re-imagines the love and lore behind Björn Borg’s 1970s tennis iconography to position new FILA sportswear between the centre court of nostalgia and slickness. Tailoring has a 70s bent with hybrid tracksuits and bomber jackets fusing leisure to rigour, which is very 70s in that transitional worksuit to evening suit style. Collection images retain an element of the past — think if Chris Evert and Edward Enninful got together for a Sports Illustrated feature — gone 4k with poses and postures capturing an athlete focused in their natural habitat, winning time.
PUMA Wants You To Paint Manhattan In Watercolours
Recent PUMA team-ups had an academic lean from science and school inspos. Now PUMA embraces a self-taught, 5th period art assignment with New York’s Lower East Side shop LAAMS in an appropriate version of the PUMA suede. Since LAAMS promotes an organically creative, DIY but fussy personal taste environment, the PUMA x LAAMS suede is no different. The ‘blank canvas’ upper is a removable option to reveal the fuzzy green suede underneath. Much like the LAAMS experience, where original context from a KAWS Bearbrick or Low ESPO’s gets redefined by you, the PUMA x LAAMS suede looks lived in. The resident is encouraged to find their own meaning inside it, too. Streetwear turns into literal street x wear as the mission behind the shoe insists to ‘wear them into the ground.’ Plus, with the Lower East Side map imprinted on the outsole, you can pop a yoga stretch, pull an ankle to your waist and find LAAMS to check if they restocked that Yohji x Supreme zine you missed out on.
Diesel Becomes A Red Planet In Seoul
Diesel developed their new store, located in Seoul’s Dosan neighbourhood, using the orthodoxy weaved inside their uniquely wonderful identity — industrial materials, vintage campaigns, bold red interiors and a fearless sense of fun. The third Diesel store in Korea can brag about their VIP area situated inside a pastel pink cave (the shade of Diesel’s bleach effect tees), which is perfect when Seventeen’s Hoshi visits with Joy to ratchet up a little hysteria to fans. How's that for successful living?
Over four floors and five stories, Diesel authenticity constructs future shopping experiences at Dosan. Red lights and redder lacquer — the Diesel logo’s vital primary colour — cover shelves, cabinets and industrial steel beams with double rivets inside the store while the company logo paints the storefront like an historic campaign billboard. Dosan flagship furniture is hammered and smashed, resembling Diesel denim constructed using tobacco, ‘snow’ and bleach. Touches like these speak to Diesel’s language as a denim division ‘Industry’ proudly stitched inside their labels. Construction is what they know best. Well, that and clever advertising, which are plastered around the store. Maybe one day you will see the S/S 1995 campaign with sailor’s kissing, perhaps another day the S/S 04 enchanting commentary on environmental abuse. Diesel’s creative director, Glenn Martens, is partial to the 1995 one.
ERL Crash Into Nostalgia This Fall
As ERL A/W 24 collections arrives at Dover Street (Hay)Market location this week, we revisit the American archetypes that help turn Eli Russell Linnetz collections into dreamscapes. Eternally set in Los Angeles, our ERL dreamer finds obsessive common ground with the LA classic 70s punk music zine Slash by way of his own modern's era Crash version. The new collection transforms Slash into a Crash profile of new rebels. Images of the iconic prom couple you loathe, local rock posers who can weirdly afford ERL x Tom Binns accessories, vacuous jocks, shop class stoners, skaters who could be lovers and popular girls who could be friends all ‘Crash’ together in ERL’s alt-nostalgia Americana yearbook. Make new memories with ERL A/W 24 at Dover Street Market London this week. Then get your geek on from the collection inside ERL’s Crash: An American Homecoming.
Omar Karim The JOY In AI Not Pain
Omar Karim has made a habit, well a career really, of using visuals to explain the potential that new technology provides to creative work. Karim has spent more than a decade removing the hoodoo scepticism out of how AI capabilities function to innovate our productive lives through projects with Balenciaga, Nike, Fela Kuti and…Drake. Tonight Karim partners with Woodseer Gallery to present Europe’s first AI film viewing showcase called ‘JOY MACHINE.’ The event promotes an emphatic message that AI image-making is a sincere discipline with human connections blending traditional filmmaking practises with AI tools. JOY MACHINE is a community filled by actual people who will screen real films, have panel chats and support networking opportunities. It all happens tonight when you, yes your physical self, registers here. Guess AI is human-friendly after all, huh?