We’re still here.

Just shuffling about and reorganising things.

Will be back in no time!

Slotting neatly in between the lifestyle brand adidas Originals and the sport-inspired luxury label Y-3, adidas SLVR is a collection of innovative pieces – pure, streamlined in form and stripped of excess. Even the SLVR logo echoes these key elements in a reduction to three clean and parallel bold strokes. So in love are we with SLVR’s clean shapes and fluid lines that we’ve partnered adidas to launch the very first SLVR pop-up store in Asia Pacific.

Located on Level3@ Front Row, the store-in-store reflects the brand’s contemporary design elements within the minimal functionality of the space, characterised with a balance of raw wood and polished steel.

The SLVR store-in-store launches with its A/W09-10 collection - a smart, pared down, subtle affair with poplin, organic cotton and water-resistant nylon in the brand’s signature shade, gun metal grey, and simple black with strong accents of dark bordeaux, cobalt blue and lime green.

Simple and unassuming, say ‘hello’ to a collection of everyday essentials that ask to be layered, combined and rearranged in infinite ways.

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Here’s a gorgeous video of SLVR’s FW09/10 campaign to get you started.

The adidas SLVR pop-up store launches at Level3@ Front Row from 11 September 2009 | 5 ann siang road

www.adidas.com/slvr

SLVR offers creative solutions for the production process which also take the environment into consideration. The Zero Waste Tee is produced in only three steps and its interlocking pattern creates absolutely no waste.

With an eye to the environment, SLVR products reduce complexity. The Seven Piece shoe is made of only seven pieces (most sneakers use 25-30) that are stitched together instead of using environmentally aggressive glue.

The S/S09 collection of Raf Simons x Dr Martens is now 20% off. Keep an eye on the iconic 3-eye shoe and heroic mandals in chromo leather and wet patent; finished with a red welt stitching and signed off with the Raf Simons signature on the footbed.  Also look out for the same Raf Simon’s attitude and mood translated into Dr Martens in the upcoming A/W09 collection. It will be pewter, gold, brassy… and amazing.

Raf Simons x Dr Martens S/S09 is now 20% off at Front Row | 5 ann siang road

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Savings first!

The French anti-brand is now on sale at Front Row. No better time to gather a couple of well-edited, simple casuals that make for efficient styling.

The Spring/Summer 2009 collection is now at 30% off (excluding A.P.C denim), while past seasons’ items are a further 60%-70% off.

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The A.P.C sale takes place from now till 31st August.

Front Row | 5 ann siang road

Streetwear gone haute. We’re well excited about this…

Dope video of adidas SLVR’s FW09/10 campaign with top notch direction and editing. Gorgeous music too.  www.adidas.com/slvr

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Director: Theo Stanley / Mountain View

Editor: Zak Tucker

Music: Sam Wagster

Creative Direction: Pietsch Lim

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Hint: We’re well excited about this.

This has to be the most exhilarating piece of  business news this week.

Crocs (you know them dastardly and fugly plastic clogs; your neighbour has a pair) are so heavily in debt that they might shut down. The Cut and the Washington Post report that the company lost $185.1 million and have until September to pay off its debt of millions to creditors. Seems the company is vehement that the shut-down won’t happen and has, bizarrely, roped in George Cloony to work with the company.

???????????? Say what? Mr. Swanky Nespresso George? Piss off.

The Post says the demise of Crocs “…mirrors the country’s tale of economic expansion and contraction” and “… ramped up manufacturing to keep up with demand, only then to find shoppers were snapping their wallets shut.”

Well, if anything, Crocs should have a place in the textbooks since its phenomenon is nothing short of a convoluted social/fashion anomaly on a very, very grand scale.  Apparently, both George W. Bush and Steve Tyler (Aerosmith) wore them. Ok, perhaps not the best examples even if injected with irony.

I’m happy that Crocs will no longer be seen on feet (if the news is true and if anything still makes sense in the world). BUT if the closure of Croc’s brings about a mad rush for limited editions of the plastic uglies, I will literally combust and reincarnate as a Croc squid charm. Because there’s simply no fighting ill-logic and bad taste.

So what is worth hyperventilating over this late night?

According to WWD, the mass-market-yet-still-cool Japanese brand Uniqlo, has unveiled the name for the collection that has Jil Sander in charge. Called “+J”, the logo is true to the minimalist aesthetic of the legendary designer, who signed a “design consulting agreement” with the brand.

I’m really happy with the choice of font, a simple sans serif. I like that the design is applicable to both Jil Sander and Uniqlo — minimal for the former, basic for the latter, and functional yet stylish for both. I also like that it looks like a cheeky, happy, winking face — am pretty sure this collection will be bringing an unprecedented level euphoria for many (Jil Sander for $80!).  In fact, if the shirt that the logo sits on in the picture above is a prototype, I’m adding that to my To-Buy list now. Looks like the perfect white shirt, which is one of the perennially impossible things to find.

The +J collection will include men’s and women’s apparel, plus accessories, at Uniqlo flagship stores and the brand’s website. Here’s hoping Singapore’s on the list, because I’m pretty sure this hype will be worth it.

This is serious. KNOW YOUR PLACE.

Retro ad alert: Chanel ran this in WWD 2007.

Not new news but still a tickle! The way it’s worded, it could very well have been Fake Karl’s doing but the timeline’s all wrong.

I’ve always thought Obama’s ‘Change‘ campaign used a very similar font to Chanel’s. (Typophiles desist. I don’t speak type. I merely observe that they look similar. ) He used  the Gotham just in case you were wondering.. (originally commissioned for GQ and designed by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, according to the Helvetica blog.) That’s still good trivial a year and half later.

Source: the fashioninformer via fashionweekdaily