Introducing: ISAORA SS16
At ISAORA, the city is where we live, work, and play. Our design is guided by its rhythms and applied with the most cutting-edge techniques on the market. We devote our attention to performance and function with a modern, straightforward aesthetic. ISAORA Sportswear exemplifies the brand’s commitment to performance and style without compromise.
ISAORA USES CUTTING-EDGE ENGINEERING TO DESIGN PERFORMANCE APPAREL THAT EXCELS UNDER ANY CONDITIONS. EVERY DETAIL HAS BEEN PAINSTAKINGLY CONSIDERED TO TRANSFORM EVERY CHALLENGE INTO AN OPPORTUNITY. FROM NY TO AK, OUTPERFORM
THE PRODUCT
SPRING/SUMMER 2017 PERMANENT COLLECTION
For the Spring/Summer 2017 Permanent Collection, we continue our strict dedication to creating products optimized for an active urban lifestyle, letting the functional needs of our costumers guide our development decisions. Here, construction and textile fabrication are paramount. Traditional needle-and-thread technology is used sparingly, implemented only when required to maintain strength and integrity. Instead, the unparalleled efficiency of bonded welding and laser-cut seams are favored, creating pieces that are streamlined in silhouette, bulk-free, and benefit from the most advanced construction technology available. Intelligent fabrics provide stretch when you’re moving and keep you cool as you push your limits.
THE BRAND
At ISAORA, the city is where we live, work, and play. Our design is guided by its rhythms and applied with the most cutting-edge techniques on the market. We devote our attention to performance and function with a modern, straightforward aesthetic. ISAORA Sportswear exemplifies the brand’s commitment to performance and style without compromise.
Stahl SS16 Collection
Stahl is the leading company in chemicals for leatherproducts and performance coatings. With its three brands – Stahl, PielColor and Picassian – the company delivers best in class solutions for top brands active in the automotive, fashion and furniture industry among others. Next to the strengthening of its position as market leader in leather products, the company foresees further market growth in performance coatings.
Stahl Collection Preview
Stahl is the leading company in chemicals for leatherproducts and performance coatings. With its three brands – Stahl, PielColor and Picassian – the company delivers best in class solutions for top brands active in the automotive, fashion and furniture industry among others. Next to the strengthening of its position as market leader in leather products, the company foresees further market growth in performance coatings.
To showcase Stahl’s leathers and trends of SS16, VOCAL hosted an open-house cocktail evening at Penthouse 45 in Midtown Manhattan. VOCAL will continue to showcase the brand through seasonal open-house cocktail events, focused on media, key production partners and varied new business associates.
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Good Times International, Forecasts Kinfolk
Beginning with the release of their latest menswear collection, Kinfolk has engaged New York-based PR and Communications specialist agency VOCAL. “I’ve kept an admiring eye on Kinfolks movements over the years, and have always been a fan,” informs Sarah Bronilla, founder and CEO of VOCAL. “We’re very proud and excited to be formerly working with Kinfolk, and look forward to a lot of fun and success ahead.”
Kinfolk Appoints VOCAL NYC to Lead PR, and Releases an Extended Menswear Collection for AW16.
The creators of thoughtfully elegant lifestyle and product experiences, Kinfolk today announces the coming release of their Autumn/ Winter 2016 apparel collection. Melding a range of casual outerwear and knitwear along with iconic formal pieces, the Good Times International collection incorporates two capsule collaborations with La Paz (confirm link) and Cockpit USA for an unexpected contrast of styles that find harmony in astute design.
Kinfolk’s Good Times International release for AW16 draws inspiration from the terrifying and gritty play land of 1970’s New York, celebrating the fever pitch of culture and expression that would define the city’s future. The collection utilizes a muted yet crisp color palate that stays very true to New York classic fall imageries, creating a cohesive and functional range of garments that can be dressed both up and down. Key pieces fronting the collection include: the B10 Bomber jacket, a classic reenvisioned for today’s smart dresser; the Aspen Fleece, a hybrid item inspired by an oversize rugby shirt and the classic Patagonia pullover; the Baltimore four-pocket jacket, inspired by a vintage military piece we found during our design process, and is the perfect mix of a CPO military overshirt and a cotton coach jacket. Need a good summary to wrap collection.
Beginning with the release of their latest menswear collection, Kinfolk has engaged New York-based PR and Communications specialist agency VOCAL. “I’ve kept an admiring eye on Kinfolks movements over the years, and have always been a fan,” informs Sarah Bronilla, founder and CEO of VOCAL. “We’re very proud and excited to be formerly working with Kinfolk, and look forward to a lot of fun and success ahead.”
Born in 2008 as a collective from New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo, Kinfolk initiatives grow from the collection of locations the brand has established – the communal design studio in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, Kinfolk 90; their culinary and cocktail nightspot in Tokyo, Kinfolk Lounge; the bar and cocktail club that has grown into a multiuse creative space, Kinfolk 94; and, of course, The Kinfolk Store that has become one of the city’s most notable menswear boutiques.
Kinfolk apparel is available at their flagship storefront at 94 Wythe Ave. Brooklyn, NY
By Robert James
New York menswear house By Robert James has raised the bar in brand experience with a multi-channel retail and communications platform that envisions the future by embracing intimate customer connectedness. By Robert James draws heavily from community roots, living, producing and retailing in around New York City — furthering the involvement of customers and the public is a natural and strong step forward.
BY ROBERT JAMES RELAUNCHES WEBSITE TO SUPPORT ECOMMERCE AND NEW BROADCAST CENTER
New York menswear house By Robert James has raised the bar in brand experience with a multi-channel retail and communications platform that envisions the future by embracing intimate customer connectedness. By Robert James draws heavily from community roots, living, producing and retailing in around New York City — furthering the involvement of customers and the public is a natural and strong step forward.
After seven years of focusing on building a strong retail presence in Manhattan and Brooklyn, By Robert James has now incorporated this elevated service into a comprehensive website that is powered by inventory-rich ecommerce. In response to nation-wide and international demand, customers around the world now have 24/7 access to their favorite and latest By Robert James garments. To celebrate, 50 customers, friends and BRJ family will receive their own personal access code that grants them exclusive access, discounts and offers. In the spirit of community, each may share this code with their own people under the “Drop My Name” campaign that tallies the number of individual code shares to award the greatest with an enhanced preference program.
“Our fans and regulars are from all corners of the world; in many ways we’re a shopping destination as much as a neighborhood store,” informs namesake and designer Robert James. “With the new website we’re hoping to reconnect with some of our many friends from the past, and meet their friends in the process.”
By Robert James now has not just the technology, but also a space dedicated to supporting this vision of connectedness – the newly refurbished third floor of the flagship store in Manhattan’s Lower East Side has been converted into their Broadcast Center, where upcoming releases will be designed, shot and showcased. To showcase the space itself, the launch party for the new website will be held at the Broadcast Center on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from 7-10 pm, at By Robert James, 74 Orchard Street, New York.
Fashion Career Kickstarter for Aspiring Young Creatives
Launching this summer as the fashion career kickstarter for aspiring teen and tween creatives, Fashion Ko-Lab exposes and informs on the varied segments of the fashion business landscape. Through the guided, week-long intensive courses, students gain genuine business insight and equip themselves with the tools they require to plot a course and navigate their own fashion career success.
A Week-Long Fashion Camp Becomes The First & Strongest Step Towards a Successful Career in Fashion
Launching this summer as the fashion career kickstarter for aspiring teen and tween creatives, Fashion Ko-Lab exposes and informs on the varied segments of the fashion business landscape. Through the guided, week-long intensive courses, students gain genuine business insight and equip themselves with the tools they require to plot a course and navigate their own fashion career success.
With three camps in New York City and two in Los Angeles through summer 2015, Fashion Ko-lab positions itself in North America’s two great fashion capitals. Course content ranges from a detailed exploration of key industry roles that identify those best suited to each participant’s goals, to a detailed study of the design and development process, to personal and professional promotional avenues that create momentum and inertia for business success. This comprehensive curriculum is reinforced by inspiring field trips to fashion houses and production facilities. Empowered with the knowledge, skills and connections to facilitate their career ambition, the participating young innovators are mentored to emerge with their own personal projects ready to execute.
Created by Liza Deyrmenjian, founder of Fashion Business Accelerator 360 (FBA360), the Fashion Ko-Lab camps provide a unique and extensive insight into the world of fashion. Through FBA360, brands leverage a multi-platform learning experience that offers full access to the industry’s most established experts to overhaul and maximize their fashion business. In the same way, Fashion Ko-Lab creates a learning structure that brings together the fundamentals of fashion professions and the hottest designers and fashion insiders.
As a fashion business consultant, Deyrmenjian has advised leading brands such as Marmot, Westbeach, Umbro and Rochelle Behrens’ The Shirt. In 2014, Deyrmenjian’s education and mentoring of 13-year-old Isabella Rose Taylor saw the development of this young designer’s first collection arriving on the Nordstrom sales floor and receiving unanimous media and public acclaim.
"Under Liza’s guidance I learned the entire process of creating a product and bringing it to market – from blocks to sourcing fabrics, finding models and creating samples,” says Isabella Rose Taylor. “This is a process that would have taken years to learn, and decades to refine.”
Today’s teens and tweens are the most connected, educated and sophisticated generation in history, and are also the most driven; for many their vision is clear and their ambition certain. Yet these qualities are only maximized with the invaluable guidance of a competent and experienced mentorship program. That program is Fashion Ko-Lab.
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For more visit information visit www.FashionKo-Lab.com.
Introducing: Blunt Umbrellas
The team at Blunt abhor the idea that umbrellas are at the forefront of the throwaway culture. Their quest is to change the consumers acceptance of built-in obsolescence and shoddy workmanship one BLUNT umbrella at a time.
The team at Blunt abhor the idea that umbrellas are at the forefront of the throwaway culture. Their quest is to change the consumers acceptance of built-in obsolescence and shoddy workmanship one BLUNT umbrella at a time. These umbrellas are the result of merging a truly revolutionary design with the values of quality workmanship and painstaking material selection. Combine this with a mad scientist testing regime, they have created an umbrella we are super proud to hand on to you. Putting it bluntly, BLUNT umbrellas are the single most significant advancement in umbrella design, in over a century... or even longer. Who really knows how long, but they are without doubt, the world's best umbrellas – designed by New Zealand.
Fashion Career Kickstarter
Launching this summer as the fashion career kickstarter for aspiring teen and tween creatives, Fashion Ko-Lab exposes and informs on the varied segments of the fashion business landscape. Through the guided, week-long intensive courses, students gain genuine business insight and equip themselves with the tools they require to plot a course and navigate their own fashion career success.
Introducing: Aimé Leon Dore
Created in 2014, Aimé Leon Dore is a fashion and lifestyle brand based out of New York City. With a strong focus on simple yet powerful design, they are driven to create timeless work by portraying an aesthetic that is uniquely their own.
Created in 2014, Aimé Leon Dore is a fashion and lifestyle brand based out of New York City. With a strong focus on simple yet powerful design, they are driven to create timeless work by portraying an aesthetic that is uniquely their own.
For their third collection release entitled 0214 New York – inspired by the New York that was and the New York that is – VOCAL supported Aimé Leon Dore's exclusive pop-up store cocktail launch. The collection consisted of fourteen exclusive pieces including outerwear, shirting, jeans, trousers, sweats and accessories, all of which are handcrafted in New York's historic Garment District. Previously only available through their online platform, New York City media, press and friendshad the unique opportunity to experience the full collection merchandised within a retail space.
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For the month of June, NYC Pride welcomes WorldPride as it marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and a half century of LGBTQI+ liberation. To celebrate this moment, The Ally Coalition have created an emotive community-driven sound and light experience featuring a soundscape by St Vincent, and generated by user messages. The experience is powered by Microsoft AI technology that explores powerful feelings of hope, anger, joy and determination.
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London is continuing its collaboration with Microsoft to inspire the next generation to rethink, redesign and revolutionize the future of the fashion industry. Leveraging Microsoft’s cutting-edge Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and IoT technologies and LCF’s industry-defining mentors, selected students were invited to participate in a semester-long intensive course that culminates in a final showcase of their prototypes this June.
The Petersen Automotive Museum announced today that its upcoming “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy” exhibit will spotlight a unique and immersive mixed-reality experience powered by Microsoft HoloLens. The display, named “Hollywood Dream Machines: Worlds Reimagined,” will be centered around the iconic Time Machine from “Back to the Future” and the famed Warthog from the “Halo” franchise. Opening May 4, 2019, the experience will offer guests an inside look at these legendary sci-fi machines.
Sister City, a new, meticulously designed hotel in NYC that embraces technology to offer guests a modern respite, debuts a first-of-its-kind lobby music score. Inherent to Sister City’s founding ethos was the question of its sonic landscape — Sister City asks what new shapes music can take as a site-specific, living extension of the hotel, and looked to Brian Eno’s Music For Airports and John Cage’s concept for “4’33”” as touch points for these conversations.
We’re excited to announce a new action sports music festival Gnarlytown set for June 22 in San Pedro, CA, co-founded by veteran pro skateboarder Chris Cole in partnership with John Reese of SGE and Nitro Circus. Set at the scenic LA Waterfront Berth 46 in San Pedro, CA, Gnarlytown will combine the perfect blend of action sports, punk rock, and craft beer tasting.
Microsoft has announced another partnership through their ongoing In Culture program that supports today’s most innovative creatives, this time with English singer-songwriter and rising star NAO. Together they are producing a never-before-seen interactive and personal music video to support the “Orbit” track on her new album Saturn released late in 2018.