Fashion, Art, Design, Lifestyle

Vesper · October 1

PRPS

Leger Windsor Stretch Medium Blue Denim

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Vesper · October 1

PRPS

Leopold Jogger Blue Bell

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Vesper · October 1

PRPS

Backwash Pants Army Green

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Vesper · October 1

Paper Planes

Lovers & Friends Hooded Ripstop Jacket Green Moss

https://sneakerjunkiesusa.com/collections/brands-paper-planes/products/paper-planes-lovers-friends-hooded-ripstop-jacket

Vesper · October 1

Paper Planes

Diamond Quilted Beanie Rubber

https://sneakerjunkiesusa.com/collections/brands-paper-planes/products/paper-planes-diamond-quilted-beanie-rubber

Vesper · October 1

Paper Planes

BELIEF IS CONTAGIOUS HOODIE Eggshell

https://sneakerjunkiesusa.com/collections/brands-paper-planes/products/paper-planes-belief-is-contagious-hoodie-eggshell

Vesper · October 1

Paper Planes

P's Script Hoodie Washed Fog

https://sneakerjunkiesusa.com/collections/brands-paper-planes/products/paper-planes-ps-script-hoodie-washed-fog

Vesper · October 1

Ksubi

Hard Times Kash SS Tee Quartz Pink

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Vesper · October 1

Ksubi

Women's Slouch Hoodie Tan

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Vesper · October 1

Ksubi

Token Kash SS Tee Tru White

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Vesper · October 1

Ksubi

Juice World Kash 999 SS Tee Vintage White

Vesper · October 1

Mauna-kea

SHIBORI V JOGGER Pink Ice Sand

https://sneakerjunkiesusa.com/collections/mauna-kea/products/mauna-kea-shibori-v-jogger-pink-ice-sand

Vesper · October 2

Timex x seconde/seconde/ M79 Automatic Watch

Silver & Black

https://www.endclothing.com/gb/timex-x-secondeseconde-m79-automatic-watch-tw2w22900qy.html

Burger 'o' clock? Timex teams up with French creative brand seconde/seconde to add a dash of whimsy to its iconic M79 Automatic Watch. This silver and black edition is as timeless as it is witty. It features a robust stainless-steel case and bracelet, rotating bezel, date window, luminous dial markings, and domed acrylic crystal. But take a closer look, and you'll find a playful second hand that features a cartoon burger that will have your mouth watering all day long.

Stainless Steel
Acrylic Lens
Clasp Buckle

Vesper · October 2

Marble-top side table

Colour - Beige/Dark brown

https://www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.1206454001.html

Asymmetrical, sturdy side table in waxed mango wood with a solid marble tabletop. Since marble is a natural material the colour and texture of each tabletop may vary. Supplied flat-packed, ready to assemble. Height 46 cm. Width 35 cm. Length 45.5 cm.

Art. No.:1206454001

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Vesper · October 2

Short cotton blend trench jacket

https://www.massimodutti.com/gb/short-cotton-blend-trench-jacket-l03434516?colorId=731

Jacket made of cotton fabric with lining. Shirt collar. Cuffs with buttoned tab. Front button fastening concealed by a placket. Two side pockets.

Golden Brown|Ref. 3434/516

Vesper · October 2

Panga®75L Waterproof Duffel

https://uk.yeti.com/products/panga-75-waterproof-duffel-tan

Vesper · October 3

The Best Trend of Fashion Month. And the Worst.

Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Miu Miu bring Paris Fashion Week to a close with some important takeaways.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/style/paris-fashion-week-trends.html

Miu Miu, spring 2025Credit...Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times

The Miu Miu show on the last day of fashion month opened with an art installation — Art Basel Paris starts in about two weeks — featuring a piece by Goshka Macuga, the Polish-born, London-based artist.

Titled “Salt Looks Like Sugar,” it transformed the runway space into a newspaper printing plant, with issues of a tabloid called the Truthless Times hanging from conveyor belts that ran across the ceiling as videos of two employees played on the walls. All to illustrate the ambiguity of what a precis called a “post-truth era” and issues like: What is fact? What is fiction? What is fashion?

OK, not the latter. That wasn’t part of the piece. But it could have been.

The question of what style is going to look like next is always the underlying theme of collections, as is a certain breast-beating about the bubblelike point of it all, but rarely have there been as few answers as there have been over the past few weeks. Instead there’s been a lot of spinning in place, archive-diving (when in doubt, look to the past!) and breath-holding. A lot of big shows and big celebrities, signifying … not much.

You can understand it, in the case of a brand like Chanel, which is between artistic directors and currently being created by the design team. The brand is literally in limbo, so defaulting to the known — jolie madame bouclé skirt suits in black and white, flowing floral chiffons — makes sense.

Chanel, spring 2025Credit...Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times

Especially when dressed up by a command performance from Riley Keough, a house ambassador, who serenaded the crowd with a rendition of “When Doves Cry” while swinging in a giant bird cage, a nod to Vanessa Paradis’ famous 1991 Chanel ad. But even more broadly speaking, when no one knows what is going to happen next, it’s hard to predict how to dress next.

Which is why it was so interesting to see both Miuccia Prada at Miu Miu and Nicolas Ghesquière of Louis Vuitton come up with the same solution, just at the closing bell: Don’t worry about it. Instead, embrace it. Turn the confusion and the mess to your own advantage.

Turn it into a look.

Not that their actual looks were the same; it was the underlying principles. As Mrs. Prada said after her show, the point is to take all these different realities (or surrealities) and smash them together. The tension inherent in women’s lives — the push-pull between substance and frivolity, responsibility and dreams, sex and maternity and strength, and so on — has become the creative happy place of her Miu Miu.

Miu Miu, spring 2025Credit...Monic

This time around that meant juxtaposing elements of athletic wear, like cutout maillots and nylon track jackets, with delicate white cotton pieces, almost like nightgowns from a midcentury Provençal town that, in turn, came sprinkled with sparkling ’70s graphics and floral bouquets. It meant multiple bejeweled and Western belts draped over what looked like antiseptic nurse uniforms.

Also bras with the straps hanging down to create a little bit of a ruffle spilling over the top of a knit sweater wrapped tightly around the torso like a bustier (a styling trick that should take off), and tight polo shirts with full skirts. The backs of some dresses were left gaping open and undone, because if there’s no one there to button you up — who cares? Why not turn it into a virtue. (“Why not?” could be Mrs. Prada’s mantra.) Hilary Swank in a brown leather skirt suit and Willem Dafoe in a blue overcoat popped up on the runway. Surprise!

Her point wasn’t to resolve dichotomies, but to exploit them. Just as Mr. Ghesquière’s combination of structure and softness, Renaissance volumes and references and modern athleisure, was meant as both a continuation of the time-traveling aesthetic he has made his signature at Louis Vuitton and a celebration of the oxymoron. Terrible beauty and all that. He went so far, he said in a preview, as to ask his tailoring atelier to work on the more flowing pieces, and his flou atelier to work on tailoring. “It was a game of diplomacy, you can imagine,” he said, semi-rolling his eyes.

Louis Vuitton, spring 2025Credit...From left, Mohammed Badra/EPA, via Shutterstock, Bertrand Guay/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images, Mohammed Badra/EPA, via Shutterstock

The result, set on an LV-trunk brick road/runway, was initially jarring, and then weirdly compelling, like most of Mr. Ghesquière’s work. Pouffy 16th-century jackets with courtier sleeves and silver embroideries were worn with striped biker shorts. Little silk dresses in graphic prints came layered under even smaller sheer strapless numbers crusted with cabochon gems. There were a lot of breeches and bloomers in velvet and pleated chiffon beneath ornate ’80s power shirting, and ropes of necklaces were draped over almost everything. The vibe was teeth-clenchingly rich meets mall casual. Some shoes were covered in fabric petals, so they resembled big floral mops.

Louis Vuitton, spring 2025Credit...Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times

Along with the bloomers, fuzzy, life-raft shoes have turned into one of the weirder trends of the season — also present in Chitose Abe’s masterful deconstruction of French archetypes at Sacai, where they took the form of shaggy, feathery slippers. Though when it comes to inexplicable fashion phenomena, nothing tops the one-leg pant, which first appeared in Milan just over a week ago. Mr. Ghesquière made some of those too, paired with funnel-shape flying saucer tunics on top. They looked sort of like trousers that had gotten snagged on a hook on the way out the door, and in the rush to get going, one half had ripped right off.

The embrace of the seemingly nonsensical combination, worn with aplomb, is the best idea of the month; a takeaway you can actually replicate at home, whether you ever end up wearing any of these clothes or not. But the one-leg pant is just, well, a step too far.