Y-3 NOTOMA

Posted on 2020-09-28

Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto return for the latest release of Y-3’s Fall/Winter 2020 collection. Inspired by the coming together of built-for-purpose details and Yohji’s signature aesthetic codes, the Y-3 NOTOMA boot champions exploration, adventure, and all-weather protection. Challenging preconceived notions of the familiar, the striking new silhouette merges ultra-functional design with rugged aesthetics inspired by the outdoors.

Built with function firmly at its heart, the Y-3 NOTOMA has been designed with a number of all-weather details. Featuring a lace closure, EVA midsole, and rubber outsole, the rugged silhouette allows the wearer to traverse both city and trail terrains with ease. Meanwhile, the inclusion of PrimaLoft® insulation fabric provides elevated warmth, even in the most wet conditions.

Continuing the seasonal theme of forward-thinking all-weather design through an avant garde lens, the Y-3 NOTOMA boot is available in two unique colourways. Made-up in an all-black woven textile upper with night-grey hits, the first colorway draws on Yohji’s traditionally monochromatic palette. Then, leveraging the visual codes of protective gear, the next colorway reimagines the high-top silhouette in an all-over khaki canvas upper with contrasting fox orange accents.

Launching on October 1st, the Y-3 NOTOMA silhouette is available globally at adidas.com/y-3, in store and through a selection of retailers.

www.adidas.co.uk/Y-3

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HUF X THE SMASHING PUMPKINS

Posted on 2020-09-28

25 years ago, The Smashing Pumpkins released their third and most critically acclaimed album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The album, which included tracks like “1979”, “Tonight, Tonight”, “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”, and “Zero”, is some of The Smashing Pumpkin’s most memorable and mentioned work to date.
HUF x The Smashing Pumpkins pays tribute to the Mellon Collie album on its 25-year anniversary and pulls inspiration from some of SP’s most influential work throughout the 90s.

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XIMONLEE x REEBOK DMX TRAIL HYDREX

Posted on 2020-09-28

The DMX Trail Hydrex was inspired by a mix of scuba boots and archetypal Reebok footwear, fusing the core aesthetics of XIMONLEE’s vision with Reebok’s heritage. A trail-inspired outsole sits atop a functional water boot upper in visually vibrant colorways of brick red and tonal greys.

www.ximonlee.com

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BARBOUR X NOAH

Posted on 2020-09-21

The latest joint release sees the New York-based label add its distinctive aesthetic to a number of Barbour items, with the stand-out pieces featuring the British label’s signature waxed cotton.

For this collaboration, NOAH has dressed the Bedale jacket in a bright yellow color complete with large NOAH logo on the rear. The second item is the Beaufort Wax which comes in a patchwork design with sections of navy, olive, black and “Bordeaux.” Both coats feature Barbour’s classic checked lining.

www.barbour.com

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JOEL-PETER WITKIN / SUPREME

Posted on 2020-09-21

American artist Joel-Peter Witkin is renowned for creating imagery which disrupts conventional notions of mortality, desire and spirituality. Drawing from a wide range of sources — including early photographic history and Daguerreotype techniques, religion, and painting ranging from Caravaggio and Giotto to Picasso and Balthus — Witkin develops elaborate, surreal scenes that feature people often relegated to society’s margins, as well as cadavers and dismembered limbs.

Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Witkin’s dark sensibilities were formed during childhood. He witnessed a fatal car accident at a young age in which a girl was decapitated. Growing up he collected news clippings about outcasts and illnesses; as a teen in the mid-1950s, used his first camera to document Coney Island sideshow performers. In the 1960s, Witkin served as a photographer during the Vietnam War. After being honorably discharged he became the official photographer for “City Walls, NYC”; an organization that produced murals throughout the five boroughs. He studied sculpture at Cooper Union in 1974 and was granted a fellowship in poetry from Columbia University. In 1976 he moved to New Mexico, and earned a MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he currently lives and works.

Witkin employs a variety of techniques in creating his images — piercing and scratching the negatives, and experimenting with various techniques during the printing process. By centering and eroticizing deformity and the macabre, Witkin’s transgressive images challenge the viewers’ perceptions of beauty. Witkin has said his work, “reflects the insanity of life.”

This fall, Supreme will release a collection featuring three of Joel-Peter Witkin’s images: Mother and Child (With Retractor, Screaming), Harvest, and Sanitarium, which inspired Alexander McQueen’s iconic “Asylum” presentation in 2001. The Supreme collection features a Hooded Sweatshirt and two T-Shirts.

Available September 24th.

Available in Japan September 26th.

www.supremenewyork.com

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