motorway mood // cultureisland 2015 // ground zero rtw fall 2015 // schmott transparent cuts 2015

two completely unrelated things i've been inspired by lately: ground zero's recent fall 2015 ready to wear collection and these "transparent cuts" photographs of stones by schmott.

ground zero's collection uses photocollage, patches, bold + clever verbiage and graphics that look like a cross between a cigarette pack and a car racing uniform. plus oddly shaped futuristic sunglasses that are wonderful and weird.

schmott's photos feature thin sections of stone samples from the f.a. finger institute for building material science weimar, which come from motorways and buildings. the stones reflect light making them appear transparent, then they are enlarged in the darkroom and reproduced on color paper.

obsessed with the opening ceremony mens collection for fall 2015! every detail is truly amazing: 1. that is the perfect tan color // 2. love the kodak collaboration (old kodak logos? yes please!) // 3. layered short sleeved knits over longsleeves plus those trousers (the way they bunch up at the bottom but taper at the ankle and the pocket flap with the rounded zipper pull), and all in the same hue! // 4. that grosgrain belt // 5. i want to photoshop my face into every outfit (i even like their male model's hairstyle).

more about the collection from style.com: "who better to recruit for such an undertaking than oc comrade spike jonze? long before he was directing for the big screen, jonze cut his teeth documenting bmx and skate culture, cofounded dirt magazine (regarded as the male counterpart to sassy), and contributed regularly to thrasher magazine. it was his hefty personal archive that yielded some of fall's coolest prints: a dizzying black-and-white skate collage; b-roll stills from the beasite boys, "sabotage" video; bmx bikers mid-air. opening ceremony is also now perhaps the only brand to ever show a sonic youth jacquard."

* images via style.com *

compare + contrast // motorway mood

runway // opening ceremony // menswear fall 2015