Julius, Spring 2010

men.style.com has a pretty fair overview of reasonably accessible bleeding-edge menswear, as profiled in Safety Last.  They cover Rick Owens, Julius, BLAAK (which I don’t care for), Juun.J and Odyn Vovk.  This is good stuff.  Meanwhile, Zana of Garbage Dress fame will be at both the Julius and Juun.J shows in Paris today, and it looks like she’ll be at Damir Doma too.  Yeah, I’m pretty green with it.

In general, I don’t get a lot of joy out of S/S collections because I generally live in fear of sunshine and heat, but enough nice things come off the runways since stompfest kicked off in Milan that I’m getting excited about our next round of patterns.  You know, the ones for next year.  Meanwhile, both Cindy and I have to get the first group finalized for download and printing and hopefully get some ad coverage.  This ≠ fun.  There’s nothing like revisiting the mechanics of construction several months after the fact to make me absolutely sick of something that I was totally in love with just a few weeks ago when the photos came back.

BTW, does anyone want to buy a fine-sport weight knitting machine with a ribbing bed, lace carriage, color changer, KnitLeader, full set of tools and a small selection of craptacular commercial acrylic?  It can be yours for $1000 if you come to Brooklyn to get it.

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