THE SPRING ISSUE
One Last Goodbye
Photography by SOHRAB VAHDAT Styling by DAN BLAKE Makeup by Yin Lee Hair by Darren Hau Model: Michelle Westgeest at Viva Paul by Paul Smith beige long sleeve shirt, Topshop black blazer and tie dye trousers, Eleanor Ambroso fringed cuff worn as lapel Paul Smith Black Label shirt with black spots, Acne mustard open back […]
Last Word – September 2011
Louis Mairone designs his “Dominic Louis” collection of unisex fashion with a menswear influence and darkly romantic perspective. Offering an avant-garde sensibility with exotic fabrications and a raw, tribal feel, Mairone’s vision is anything but mainstream. SOMA asked, “What does Fashion mean to you?” Available at Oak and wondermode.com, visit dominiclouis.com. – Michael Cohen
Maison Moschino
“What happens when you step inside a dream? Or rather, what happens when you dream inside a dream?” This is the question that the Maison Moschino hotel in Milan poses to you. Don’t let the outer façade of this former railway station fool you; the inside is adorned like a fantasy, Moschino style. With 65 […]
Of Monkeys and Madmen
Photography by Jena Cumbo Despite its contemporary feel and “It Bar” status, the Monkey Bar has actually existed, in various incarnations, for decades. In the thirties, as the Second World War loomed large, a new boîte opened in the lobby of the luxurious Elysée Hotel on East 54th St in midtown Manhattan and immediately became […]
High Places
Photography by Colin Patrick Smith High Places is the duo of Mary Pearson, a classically trained bassoon player, and Rob Barber, a guitarist, visual artist and producer. Pearson and Barber were introduced by a mutual friend when Pearson came to New York City to audition for her graduate program. After a lengthy conversation about musical […]
Delicate Cutters
Photography by Brandon Brown When Delicate Cutters front woman Janet Simpson sings, her warm, inviting tone pulls you into her troubled and emotional world. The music may be mellow, marked by lilting melodies with pop, folk and Celtic influences, but lyrically, Simpson investigates the darker regions of the human heart. She visits the disturbing places […]
Jordan Bridges
Photography by Kat Borchart They call them dynasties: Barrymore, Carradine, Redgrave, Bridges. Some begin their film careers as toddlers on the silver screen, some grace theater stages from adolescence through seniority, and some, like Jordan Bridges – son of Beau, grandson of Lloyd, and nephew of Jeff – do a little bit of both, taking […]
Aimee Garcia
Photography by Kat Borchart Aimee Garcia is a rare talent, even by Hollywood standards. Like a handful of starlets who wind up in a lecture hall somewhere along their career – see Natalie Portman, her competition for the lead in Baz Luhrmann’s celebrated Romeo + Juliet – the 32-year -old actress, former Morgan Stanley employee, […]
Sruli Recht
Draped, raw and digital – these are the three words describing designer Sruli Recht’s first venture into fashion as we know it, with his debut menswear collection presented in Paris last January. A multi-faceted designer, Recht set up his design studio to work on cross-disciplinary projects. In 2008, he began producing a series of monthly […]
Flasks from the Past
On my last trip to New York City, I discovered a hidden treasure at the back of a Greenwich Village boutique. Drawn to the accessories portion of the shop, I carefully picked up a small bottle of what appeared to be a remedy from an old apothecary. I inhaled and sensed nostalgia for another age, […]
Ying Gao
Geography, urbanism, distances and the shape of cities – unusual elements to be found in fashion, they form the basis for the work of Chinese-born, Montreal-based designer Ying Gao. But Ying Gao is not just a designer – she is a researcher, an interactive developer of ideas, and, more formally, a professor at the Ecole […]
Street Pulse: SF Marina
1. Describe your style in two words? 2. Which San Francisco neighborhood do you find the most stylish? 3. Who is your favorite style icon? 4. Tom Ford vs. Marc Jacobs? 5. What is your biggest fashion regret? Photography by Aric Yeakey Summer, 28 1. Dynamic and Practical 2. Upper Haight 3. Kate Moss 4. […]
Street Pulse: SF Mission
1. Describe your style in two words? 2. Which San Francisco neighborhood do you find the most stylish? 3. Who is your favorite style icon? 4. Tom Ford vs. Marc Jacobs? 5. What is your biggest fashion regret? Photography by Aric Yeakey Isabel, 20 1. Eccentric and Intricate 2. Cole Valley and the Sunset 3. […]
Street Pulse: New York City
1. What is your favorite thing that you are wearing? 2. What is your favorite place to shop in NYC? 3. If you could go to any of the events or fashion shows at NYC fashion week, what would you like to go to? 4. What, in your opinion, is the best article of clothing […]
Victoria Spruce
Many things have been said about women and shoes, and one recurring theory is that they cannot live without each other. Designers of past and present fame have always been fascinated with footwear, and the virtually infinite variations on any given shoe certainly fuel the fire. The shoe world’s new kid on the block is […]
