At times it feels like a full-time job just keeping up to date with the news. Political events, wars, new music, new stuff to spend your money on — there’s more distractions than ever out there. That’s why, to save you time and energy, we’ve wrapped up the weeks best lookbook submissions in one handy space, so you can feast your eyes on them all in one.
Below you’ll find a selection of the week's dopest lookbooks.
s.k. manor hill
Season: Fall/Winter 2017
Key Pieces: The minimal trench, pleated drawstring trousers, and the collarless shirt all make up a utilitarian uniform of elevated basics.
Editor’s Notes: More Japanese-inspired minimal hits in loose-fit silhouettes, all carefully crafted with some meticulous attention to craftsmanship. In fact, conscientious construction is key in each piece of apparel in this collection. Everything is made in New York City from 100% natural fiber fabrics sourced from Europe and Japan.
PRAGMATIC
Season: Spring/Summer 2017
Key Pieces: The plush pink jacket and mustard overcoat will spice up your outerwear arsenal.
Editor’s Notes: As we’ve mentioned, Korean designers are killing it and Seoul-based menswear upstart PRAGMATIC is no exception with a solid rotation of classic staples. We previously featured the brand in our Under the Radar series.
Enzo Blues
Season: Spring/Summer 2017
Key Pieces: The orange trucker jacket, oversized hooded coat in a beige-y shade, and the blue asymmetric oversize shirt.
Editor’s Notes: This rising Korean streetwear brand borrows its name from Enzo Molinari in the movie The Big Blue and Enzo Blue have honed in on an expertly directional aesthetic that effortlessly blends sportswear with tailoring.
SHOOP
Season: Fall/Winter 2017
Key Pieces: Every single track pant ensemble is killer. Clean, graphic lines with some nostalgic, throwback sportswear steez.
Editor’s Notes: This Spanish label recently dropped a collection of rap-inspired T-shirts featuring classic composers such as Beethoven and Mozart. For their fully formed fall offering, the brand looks back to vintage sportswear silhouettes, with more modern, polished outerwear offerings.
Maiden Noir
Season: Spring/Summer 2017
Key Pieces: The satin garage jacket and the stripe coach jacket.
Editor’s Notes: The brand takes inspiration from the utilitarian uniform of the ’40’s & ’50’s and American painter Georgia O’Keffe’s colorful compositions and the result is a selection of garments all reworked to be loose in proportion yet retain some sense of rigidity.
Profound Aesthetic
Season: Spring/Summer 2017
Key Pieces: The rose embroidered coat and every single graphic hoodie on offer.
Editor’s Notes: Profound Aesthetic’s latest drop is all about the seasonal staples in a bold graphic update plus some colorful embroideries. The brand serves some strong floral imagery, abstract art, eagles and fire, and the collection’s mosaic of disparate references reflects the state of current affairs within the world, and more particularly, the uneasy social climate of America.
Aztech Mountain
Season: Summer & Fall 2017
Key Pieces: Basically all of the functional steez but the black puffer and mountain boots could definitely take you from the slopes to the streets.
Editor’s Notes: Believe it or not but Aztech Mountain is ski brand, and they produce some pretty sumptuous imagery. Their latest collection draws upon Aspen, Colorado's colorful past and the works of a Thomas Benton. There’s plenty of bold and colorful elements with some rich jewel tones to evoke the rugged masculinity of mountainous terrain.
