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Jargol Tote featured in In a Pinch a collaboration with DIS Magazine and FAUX/real. Carry a tote bag home here !

Who would want to party with most designers... not us.. Telfar on the other hand is not your typical designer. On 09/10/10 New York based designer Telfar Clemens is teaming up with White Box to present his latest collection FORmale. Join Jargol at the preview party for FORmale which is being held at Ghetto Gothic this Wednesday 08/25/10. Come celebrate a spirit of collaboration at this event with an extremely reasonable sliding scale donation ranging from $5 to $25 dollars. For this collection Telfar is working with artist Ryan Trecatin and Lizzie Fitch as well as Fatima Al Qadiri and Seven New York staff member Nick Scholl who moonlights as an opera singer..sounds amazing right. This is definitely the highlight of the week as far as fashion news or or any news for that matter. If you are not in New York for this party please donate to the cause here. Telfar will be accepting donations up until the event on September 10th so don't hold back contribute now.

Donata Paruccini debuts a simple coat rack at Moss. Paruccini's coat rack made from tethered leather balls cleverly turns an everyday often ugly household article into a playful sculptural object. But, as New Yorkers this wasn't the first thing that came to our mind; we were struck by the floor space that the rack could potentially save. Paruccini was born in 1966 in Milan and graduated in Industrial Design at ISIA Florence with Johnathan De Pas. She is one of the most productive industrial designers working from Europe through the last decade. Other objects she has produced include her E-vaso “New agriculture” 2004, where the designer transforms a simple plant soil bag into a minimalist mobile vase. The overwhelming simplicity of her designs have made her a staple of European industrial design and her coat rack is just another example.

Ann Demeulemeester's Fall 2011 menswear collection is another monochromatic minimalist project. Demeulemeester's work uniforms / moon suit looks are clean and super wearable. These futuristic looks remind us that its almost 2011 and this is what everyone should look like by now.

Isaac Reina overnight bag at No. 8b ($741)

Reader Suggested: Carries lines not found anywhere else in the city, like Hope, A Detacher, Assembly, Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Maison Martin Margiela, LD Tuttle, Bless, and Cosmic Wonder. Rare and hard to find books and printed matter as well. More like an experiment than a shop. Small, careful, and curated.

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Juun J's collection for SS 11 is the strongest to date The collection was extremely focused with a heavy emphasis on fabrics and layering. The menswear only designer is stunning us with this amazing attention to detail in regard to his trousers. We love the back and fourth this collection creates between street style and monochromatic sophistication. .

Dunlin has recently opened a brand new out post in South Williamsburg. The shop its self is a must see our new favorite Brooklyn boutique. . Owners Shiho Nagashima and Ramana Goldstein have taken as much care with the boutique interiors as they do with each hand made bag.

After serving the Lorimer Street/Williamsburg neighborhood for nearly 4 seasons, Open Air Modern has made a new home at 606 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Located at the head of McCarren Park, around the corner from the G train at Nassau Avenue, Open Air Modern has already settled in comfortably into its new home. Designers showcased on a regular basis include (and inspired by) George Nelson, Charles Eames, Knoll, Herman Miller, Ply Craft and others.

Address:
606 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11222
United States
Neighborhood: Greenpoint
Metro Area: New York

Website: http://www.openairmodern.com

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Karen Walker Helter Skelter glasses at Jumelle.

Our top picks from Zac Posen's line for Target USA. Tank Dress $79.99 Bikini Top $19.99 Black Tuxedo Jacket $49.99 Bodycon Dress $49.99

One of the most exciting performance pieces happening right now in New York City takes its name from a racial slur referring to blackness. Ladies and gentleman may I please introduce you to Joshua Seidner’s POWDERBURN. Seidner is one of the most visible and interesting performance artists working in New York City right now. We call POWDERBURN a performance but it’s really not. It’s an overture for Seidner dealing with and taking critically the taboos of extreme masculinity and male to male connectivity through violence. The meta narrative goes something like this: a group of dislocated immigrants are stuck in a foreign land (i.e. the west?) and have no other way to make a living or connect with others than to fight for their supper. The crowd looks on enjoying the hyper masculine abilities of the sweaty outsiders yet seems slightly offended and no doubt assumes them to be brutes of a primitive order. The plot for POWDERBURN in and of its self seems to be a metaphor for the function in the human psyche for masculine otherness and difference. POWERBURN intentionally highlights mens need for reclaiming masculinity as a vehicle for identity and what being a masculine "other" means in a post feminist world. POWDERBURN's first incarnation came as the headline event at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Residency program last year and has since been staged again in Soho sponsored by designer Ivana Helsinki . Esquire Magazine has also staged a POWERBURN performance where the immigrants confront the crowd through extremely masculine sexual confrontation. On lookers often mention they have to remind themselves that these staged performances are actually art performances and not fight clubs or outsiders hired for sports entertainment; something that Seidner feels is essential to the experience of POWDERBURN. We can’t wait to see the series of performances of this overture whether it is in the form of film or live performance. .

From French accessories designer Philippe Roucou, we're loving this striking series of scarves created from found Polaroid pictures.

While we wait for the our hoped reintroduction of the full-fledged Rachel Comey men's lline, a little treat has found its way online. http://www.rachelcomeymens.com is currently featuring Comey's men's shoe line, with about 10 styles ready to order direct from the site in variations not available at Comey's stockists.