You never know where falling in love will take you. For history’s quixotic poets and artists it may have been the cause of eternal anguish, yet for love-struck Danish all-round avant-garde creative, Henrik Vibskov, it proved the catalyst for a dream fashion career. “There was a girl I fancied who planned to go to London’s Central St. Martin's to study fashion, and I just said, ‘yeah, me too,’” remembers Vibskov. “So I called St. Martins and got an interview appointment the next day, I prepared a file during the night, jumped on the plane, and got into the course… I also got the girl actually.”
PETER PILOTTO: Intergalactic fantastic
Taking fashion into another dimension with dazzling astral prints across audacious garments fit for ‘intergalactic pirates’ and ‘apocalyptic rockabilly nomads’, London-based label Peter Pilotto is turning heads with a style all its own. Indigo Clarke writes.
CHRIS JORDAN: Counter Culture
Finding beauty in industrial waste and the detritus of modern day life while making a statement against mass-consumption, photographer Chris Jordan’s recent work is a compelling and disturbing portrait of America. The recipient of the 2007 Green Leaf Award through the Natural World Museum and the United Nations Environment Programme talked art, life and ditching law with Indigo Clarke.
YOUNG AMERICANS: Opening Ceremony, Band of Outsiders, Phillip Lim, Doo.Ri, Ohne Titel
From luxury to more affordable day-to-night wear, American fashion in its endless incarnations is being reinvented and renewed by a wave of influential young designers. From inventive interpretations on great American sportswear and traditionalist attire in line with houses Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Brooks Brothers to innovative European-inspired craftsmanship and detailing, award-winning labels are breaking away from conservative and commercial conventions by conceiving designs with a global perspective. Band of Outsiders and Boy, the LA-based mens and womenswear labels by Scott Sternberg have won a celebrity following for their unique spin on impeccably crafted preppy chic, Korean-born and New Jersey-raised Doo-Ri Chung has invested draped jersey with sophistication through her label Doo.Ri, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim have fashion following new rules with their multifaceted company Opening Ceremony and New York labels Ohne Titel by Alexa Adams and Flora Gill, and Philip Lim 3.1 by Philip Lim, have become known for their unique take on modern luxury. Meet the Young Americans shaking up world fashion, writes Indigo Clarke.