Comeforbreakfast, the up-and-coming Italian label launched in 2009 by Antonio Romano and Francesco Alagna in September 2009, features as a part of the Spiga2 Project design boutique sponsored by Dolce & Gabbana. Harry Goodwins (Ford Men) enters the story by modeling looks for the Spring 2012 lookbook. A clever mixture of sporstwear and smart casual tailoring makes the label an obvious choice for curators Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. [Swide]
Stefano Pilati, erstwhile Yves Saint Laurent creative director, spoke with Pamela Golbin, chief curator of the Musée de la Mode et du Textile at the Louvre, before a Tuesday evening audience at Florence Gould Hall in Manhattan as a part of the French Institute Alliance Française Fashion Talks series. The talk was booked in advance of the designer’s YSL departure, but that did not prevent the Italian from speaking with candor about his tenure at the storied French house. “I did the first show and I swear, I thought that was it,” he said. “I thought, ‘Do the show, get it over with. They’re going to fire me straight away.’” Pilati did just that for another eight years. Tonight Dries Van Noten is scheduled to speak as a part of the same series; tickets are sold out. [WWD]
Grace Coddington, Edward Enninful, Tabitha Simmons…each have exceptional taste in common, but they also can claim “model” on their long and distinguished CVs. Models.com fashion and beauty editor Janelle Okwodu surveys the origin stories of a handful of editors who got their industry start by modeling. The transition makes sense in terms of the wealth of exposure models gain to the inner workings of the fashion industry. In years to come the likes of Hanne Gaby (Ford) and Ethan James (Ford Men) would seem near certainties to join the above ranks of models-turned-editors. [Models.com]
Robert Geller finds inspiration from the New York Supreme Court building at 52 Walker Street in Tribeca according to a VMAN.com series by photographer Aaron Stern that captures some of the magazine’s favorite New Yorkers in their most cherished locations throughout the five boroughs. That the 2011 Swarovski Award for Menswear winner finds an otherwise monumental and desolate point on the Lower Manhattan grid inspiring is intriguing when compared to Geller’s impressive body of work 11 collections. It is doubtful the same would hold true for, say, the Port Authority Bus Terminal or the Javits Center, but the possibilities would be no less tantalizing. [VMAN]
Harry Goodwins (Ford Men) | Comeforbreakfast Spring 2012 (Photography: Courtesy of Comeforbreakfast.it)
