Visionaire presents issue 54 SPORT, a wearable publication. Using the most advanced printing technologies, Visionaire produces full-coverage, full-color, photographically-printed Lacoste polo shirts featuring artwork by photographers Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin with M/M (Paris), Phil Poynter; artists Thomas Demand, Thomas Ruff, T.J. Wilcox; designer Karl Lagerfeld; filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar; musicians David Byrne, Michael Stipe; and painter Richard Phillips.

SPORT is produced as four different sets, each containing three printed Lacoste polo shirts embedded within its pages: one large, one medium, and one small, as well as a book featuring all twelve images.

This issue is a collaboration with Lacoste, currently celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Each set sold separately. more on http://www.visionaireworld.com/54_salepage.php

Gap has commissioned renowned Paris Boutique colette to create a special one-month installation in its rotating concept store at 54th and 5th Avenue. Colette X Gap store will be open from september 6 through October 5, 2008.

colette gap store

http://www.colettexgap.com/

First cover for Vogue Homme Japan. Shot by Hedi Slimane and directed by Nicola Formichetti. The launch will be the second week of September ( 10th ) . Vogue Homme Japan opens a new face for the Condé Nast family.

When famous toy brand, Margarete Steiff GmbH, decides to produce the first ever “couture” teddy bear, they choose the master of today’s luxury: Karl Lagerfeld. A unique and unusual collaboration showing how Lagerfeld always is on the avant garde. Steiff innovates and brings the first teddy bear made for older kids. Source: Colette

Korea is the next Japan, with the multi brand store and Magazine. Vogue Korea ‘Black Beauties’ follow the italian Vogue with Chanel Iman in Burberry, for her very first solo Vogue cover. She is actually half-korean. As well Freja in Burberry for the Numero Cover.

Prada has gone a very interesting face in its choice for the Linea Rossa Fall-Winter 2008 /2009 line. Ymre Stiekema the 16 year old Dutch model who fronts the campaign (photographed by Steven Meisel). She is as well the runner-up of  ’Elite Model Look’ contest 2008.

Comme des Garçons’ founder and head designer Rei Kawakubo will create this autumn’s guest designer collection at H&M. Rei Kawakubo, famous and admired for her creativity and artistry, will design a women’s and a men’s collection, with some pieces for children too. Accessories and an exclusive unisex fragrance will also be included in the collection. out on the 13 th of november.

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• A fantastic modelling opportunities has arisen. Buff gym types need not apply according to the specifications…

They are looking:

• Age range 16 - 24
• 32 - 34in waist
• Regular or long leg
• 38 - 40in chest
• Send them your details & 2 recent snaps @ iwanttobeamodel@topman.com

A new exhibition at the London Victoria & Albert Museum this summer, Fashion V Sport, will explore the relationship between contemporary fashion and global sportswear brands. Both industries have been inspired by street style and have been working in closer collaboration in recent years.

Around 60 outfits will be on display including performance sportswear, work by fashion designers such as Stella McCartney, Bernard Willhelm, Jean Charles de Castelbajac, Dries van Noten, Sonia Rykiel, Nike clothing by Dr Romanelli, as well as Jeremy Scott’s collection for Adidas, inspired by artist Keith Haring.

Fashion V Sport - Victoria & Albert Museum - 5 August 2008 – 4 January 2009
Cromwell Road - London SW7 2RL - +44 (0)20 7942 2000 - South Kensington

www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/fashion-v-sport

Isla Moda, island dedicated to fashion and luxury which should soon see the day in Dubai.
Fashion icon, Karl Lagerfeld has signed an exclusive deal with Dubai Infinity Holdings (DIH). At a time when Russian billionaires desperately seeking a bit of exclusivity, Isla Moda is already as the answer to the expectations of customers ultra high-end. The island has the ambition to become the ultimate reference for design and aesthetic.