Clean Market, the New York Wellness Destination

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Clean Market, the New York Wellness Destination

Clean Market, the New York Wellness Destination

New York City is an exhausting, stressful place to live. There aren’t a lot of places you can decompress or get away from the noise to take care of yourself. Not until the opening of Clean Market, that is.

Lily Kunin of @CleanFoodDirtyCity wanted to create a place that you could go and really reset yourself with everything wellness in one place. The first Clean Market location has a storefront shopping area that carries supplements, Lord Jone’s cbd gummies, Herbivore Botanicals products; basically everything you could need for a dreamy self-care Sunday. They also have a coffee bar with cbd drinks, superfood smoothies and matcha.

I came in for a cryotherapy facial, an IV and boosters on a nasty, rainy day. Once I got inside the minimal, white space I was ushered to the back area where I sat down and got an amazing cryofacial while sipping a glow-recipe smoothie.

The idea behind the facial is minus 200 to 300 degree air is blown all over your face to remove that top layer of dead skin cells to wake up the fresh, new cells below. This tells your skin cells that are constantly working to keep your face temperature warm to cool it down (literally) which helps kick up collagen production.

My facial was so enjoyable, I felt so relaxed and since the air was constantly moving around my face, neck and chest it wasn’t uncomfortable or intense. My skin had a noticeable glow for the week after, I’d seriously suggest trying this facial!

My skin had a noticeable glow for the week after

Clean Market

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The second half of my Clean Market experience was in their medical spa area, where I was set up on a Nutridrip. I chose the glow option because I love a good glow without highlighter.

Now, coming from the person who literally has never gotten a flu shot because I hate needles, believe me when I say that the IV was so much more enjoyable than I expected you should believe me. So after I had the Nutridrip I had a few booster shots (in my butt).

the IV was so much more enjoyable than I expected

My word of advice, if you aren’t used to getting shots or giving blood, slow your roll and pace yourself on the boosters. After two boosters I fainted, but woke up with cold towels all over me and nurses holding watermelon juice. Keep in mind that I literally pass out at the dentist’s office, and I never wake up with a freshly pressed watermelon juice.

Don’t walk, run to make an appointment at the Clean Market and get yourself glowing from the inside out. Make sure to pick up some wellness products on your way out, and if you feel so inclined to see what brought me back after passing out, try the amazing watermelon juice!

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FWO

New Looks to Love: BLDWN

Hannah Longman
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New Looks to Love: BLDWN

Women – BLDWN

Represented By Purple PR.

Based out of Los Angeles, BLDWN is a men’s and women’s ready to wear brand.

The SP2019 collection reinterprets modern American design inspired by 70s era street photographer Mark Cohen. SP2019 offers feelings of nostalgia to 70’s era NY with a range of jeans, dresses, knits, workwear and outerwear. SP2019 also marks the relaunch of the brand to BLDWN.

 
Women – BLDWN

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New Looks to Love: Vivetta

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New Looks to Love: Vivetta

Vivetta Milano Spring Summer 2019

Represented By Purple PR.

The SS19 collection focuses on pastel hues with vivid detailing. Candid swans rest on small tunics, blackberries in Swarovski crystals, butterflies on fragile tulle bodices. Hydrangeas on mini dresses, poplin shirts, the collection has a playful nature that is signature to the brand ethos of Vivetta.

Vivetta Ready-To-Wear SS19

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New Looks to Love: Noon by Noor

Hannah Longman
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New Looks to Love: Noon by Noor

Noon by Noor

Represented By Purple PR.

Bahrain is Noon By Noor’s source of inspiration, this time for the Spring/Summer 2019 collection, designed by Noor Rashid Al Khalifa & Haya Mohamed Al Khalifa.

The palette of dusty tones, Sand, Pink Sand and Blue Haze are derived from the landscape of dunes, sea and sky. Silhouettes are influenced by traditional Middle Eastern costume, which also inspires the manipulation of printed lines around the body.

 
Noon by Noor

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Easier pieces are cut with movement and have planes of striped cloth, tucked and folded to offer distorted optical patterns.

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New Looks to Love: Nicole Benisti

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New Looks to Love: Nicole Benisti

Nicole Benisti

Represented By Purple PR.

Nicole Benisti is an outerwear brand based in Montreal. The outerwear is geared towards the modern day woman, exuding effortless elegance, sophistication, and glamour.

The brand is known for fusing practicality and style so its customer doesn’t have to sacrifice fashion over function. Each design offers a fashion-forward versatility that establishes stylish and sleek pieces that are perfect for transitioning from day to night and week to weekend.

 
Nicole Benisti

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Nicole Benisti is available at luxury department stores and specialty retailers worldwide such as Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Harrods, Flannels, TsUM, Aizel, Lotte and Galleria along with its online store at www.NicoleBenisti.com.

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Adidas Originals by Alexander Wang F/W 2018

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Adidas Originals by Alexander Wang F/W 2018

Adidas Originals by Alexander Wang F/W 2018

Represented By OBCM.

This Fall, adidas Originals and Alexander Wang continue their reinvention of sports apparel and footwear with Season 4, dropping on November 14 at select retailers, adidas Originals and Alexander Wang flagship locations, as well as both brands’ e-commerce sites. This season, inspiration comes from recontextualizing, repurposing and elevating ideas and materials to transform them into a completely new collection.

For Wang, this means editing the most essential garments, graphics, and fabrics from past seasons of the collaboration and fusing them with iconic fragments from the adidas’ archive, some of which use a unique “photocopy” process — like a two-dimensional collage. Imperfect, off-kilter, and slightly disjointed, each piece bears Wang’s subversive signature style.

Season 4 drops on November 14

 
Adidas Originals by Alexander Wang F/W 2018

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Track tops, dresses, shorts, puffers, and crop tops feature naïve seaming, contrasting inserts, spliced logos, upside-down brand flags, and other “wrong” details. These flaws are designed by Wang to connect the disparate eras — the before and the after, the past and the present. The collection is a commentary on the ephemeral nature of fashion and the ability to transcend time through use of technology.

The collection is defined by three stories: photocopy, disjoin, and AW essentials, each one featuring its own distinct take on track tops, track pants, shorts, tees, and dresses. The photocopy range melds Wang signatures with iconic adidas football jerseys. The disjoin series combines rich velour with jersey and nylon while playing with the adidas logo and branding. Finally, the AW essentials feature fundamental silhouettes created with mixed materials and referencing sports through iconic retro cut lines.

The collection is defined by three stories: photocopy, disjoin, and AW essentials

In footwear, the AW Skate Super revisits a tooling from Season 1, now combined with an adidas Superstar upper and trimmed with thick, 1980s-style laces. Its shell toe is turned inside-out to show its bar code. The chunky, ’70s-inspired Turnout Trainer is released in a new colorway while the AW Bball returns in a sleek, all-white style. The AW Puff Trainer pairs a multi-sport–inspired tooling with quilted uppers designed to resemble a puffer jacket. Finally, the AW Futureshell — first glimpsed on the Alexander Wang Spring/Summer 2019 runway — merges ’00s-era basketball materials with a ’90s-style silhouette. The shoe is defined by its distinct shiny, one-piece molded upper.

The Season 4 campaign takes the collection on a mock camping trip with model Anna Ewers. In a stark white studio, she seductively reclines on a series of custom-made outdoor gear — tents, sleeping bags, chairs, umbrellas — produced from scraps of vintage adidas Originals by Alexander Wang, a direct reference to the collection’s inspiration of repurposing. Photographed by Brianna Capozzi and styled by Haley Wollens, the imagery veers between the playful and the absurd while retaining Wang’s sense of wit and subversion.

The Season 4 campaign takes the collection on a mock camping trip with model Anna Ewers

About adidas Originals

Inspired by the rich sporting heritage of adidas – one of the world’s leading sports brands and a global designer and developer of athletic footwear and apparel –– adidas Originals is a lifestyle brand founded in 2001. With the adidas archive at its foundation, adidas Originals continues to evolve the brand’s legacy through its commitment to product innovation and its ability to filter the creativity and courage found on courts and sporting arenas through the lens of contemporary youth culture. Marked by the iconic Trefoil logo that was first used in 1972 and championed by those that continue to shape and define creative culture, adidas Originals continues to lead the way as the pioneering sportswear brand for the street.

About Alexander Wang

Alexander Wang was born and raised in San Francisco, California and later moved to New York City to attend Parsons School of Design. In 2005, after two years, he pursued the launch of his own label. In Spring 2007, it had evolved into a full Women’s ready-to-wear line and the collection was shown for the first time on the runway in Fall 2007.

In its essence, the Alexander Wang brand’s sensibility is a reflection on contrasts, blending seamlessly between the refined and the imperfect. His collections have an unprecious outlook on fashion, and always reflect a sense of ease. He is renowned for his irreverent approach and for perpetually evolving and re-contextualizing the urban uniform.

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Commune Bonum: FTL Moda to Launch First Capsule Collection with Skechers

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Commune Bonum: FTL Moda to Launch First Capsule Collection with Skechers

FTL MODA LAUNCHES ITS FIRST CAPSULE COLLECTION ON THE INTERNATIONAL FASHION SCENE

After twelve years as producer, publicist, and showroom for the high profile fashion industry worldwide, and with a solid backbone in creating some of the most successful visual and editorial productions, FTL Moda just activated its new “designer” component, producing and launching its first capsule.

Following up on its debut at NYFW, COMMUNE BONUM will be featured in a showcase presentation this Sunday in Parma, Italy, in the suggestive and unusual setting of a canine training field. 

COMMUNE BONUM will be featured in a showcase presentation this Sunday in Parma, Italy

An Important Tribute

The show will be a tribute to multi-awarded German Shepherd breeder and trainer Antonella Niccolini, who recently passed away after a long battle with cancer. 

“My sister and I come from a family of creative minds, of real entrepreneurs,” said Ilaria Niccolini, owner and founder of FTL Moda and COMMUNE BONUM.

“Her great achievements, under her TURBOLAND trademark, as well as her immense sacrifices are impressed in the minds of the most respected professionals in the dog-training world all over Europe, as well as in those of the thousands of dog lovers who devote their time and passion to this breed. 

“She has been a role model for at least two generations of dog devotees, and she definitely pushed boundaries in a world that was largely restricted to men until just twenty years ago.

“Losing her to a horrible cancer broke my heart, but it also motivated me, as a credible and recognized producer in an industry apparently so far from Antonella’s world, to join forces with my family to continue to prove that arts and culture can be allied, independently of the specific circumstances.”

Losing her broke my heart

Worldwide Distribution

COMMUNE BONUM will be distributed worldwide, through the FTL Moda wholesale business development department in NY, but will also be available on its e-commerce/website for direct purchases by final clients.

High-Profile Digital Marketing Strategy

The marketing strategy behind this launch include strong editorial contributions, video clips and short documentaries promulgated via well-established sites and digital platforms, virtual reality, and new digital communication techniques, on which the US producer is at work with high profile media of the caliber of Numero Russia and the entire ACMG group, Fashion Week Online, and Microsoft.  This action will continue FTL Moda’s push to break stereotypes in the fashion industry, and move it towards a more diverse, inclusive, and socially aware approach.

The VR component will be in partnership with Numero Russia, FWO, and Microsoft

Made in Italy Textiles and the Collaboration with Skechers

COMMUNE BONUM was conceived to answer the needs of today’s professional women (menswear line coming soon) with a cosmopolitan streetwear inspiration that yields a pragmatic yet chic approach to fashion.

Produced exclusively with Made in Italy textiles, the capsule is manufactured in Europe, and offers distinguished details in styling and in fabrics selection (a preference for high end neoprene and stretched taffeta’ denote its style and wearability) that make it innovating, versatile, and perfect for a finishing look signed by Skechers.

Produced exclusively with Made in Italy textiles, the capsule is perfect for a finishing look signed by Skechers

The iconic US sneaker’s producer, in fact, joined forces with FTL MODA to launch Commune Bonum at NYFW, and for the worldwide image.

“We received an enthusiastic, and very emotional, to be honest, support from Skechers,” said Élio Nogueira, the world-renowned high fashion photographer, and creative director at FTL MODA. “This allowed us to craft the looks with their footwear finishing in mind, and the result was fantastic.”

We received an enthusiastic support from Skechers, said world-renowned photographer Élio Nogueira

Already published on a few internationally high profile publications (the upcoming Numero Russia, and L’Officiel Germany being two of them) COMMUNE BONUM and its tribute to Antonella Niccolini promise to enchant the industry, as has already happened with a several key retail boutiques in the US.

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“Men in Brands” Fashion Illustration Contest Winners Announced!

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“Men in Brands” Fashion Illustration Contest Winners Announced!

The “Men in Brands” Fashion Illustration Contest

Last April, Men in Brands (@meninbrands) held a contest for men who love fashion.

This season, they held an “illustrating marathon” to give budding artists — male and female — a chance to showcase their designing chops!

This was a unique opportunity for amateur illustrators to illustrate the the freshest runway fashion looks.

The @meninbrands account is a growing international community looking to promote young talents and give them a chance to be found by brands.

 
The Winners

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Be sure to follow the profiles of the artists! We’re sure we’ll be hearing about them in the future.

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Exclusive Interview with RC Caylan: New York Fashion Week SS19

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Exclusive Interview with RC Caylan: New York Fashion Week SS19

RC Caylan Atelièr Exclusive Interview

RC Caylan is a fashion designer to watch out – his exquisite collections are a mixture of classic romance and modern-day fairytale. His vast array of creations ranges from fashionable red carpet gowns, bridal gowns, bridesmaids’ dresses and contemporary suits for men. Everything is handmade, and custom made making his designs remarkable and one-of-a-kind.

Caylan started to love fashion designs at an early age of 9 through the influence of her grandmother who was a uniform seamstress in the Philippines, where he grew up. He graduated Fashion Designs in Grand Rapids Community College in 2015, the same year when he had his first big fashion show at San Francisco Bay Area Fashion Network. His success is unstoppable that he opened his studio in 2016, RC Caylan Atelièr, located at Suite 308 80 Ottawa Avenue, Grand Rapids in Michigan.

Exclusive Interview with RC Caylan: New York Fashion Week SS19

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This year seems to be Caylan’s lucky year as he is becoming popular in Hollywood and the fashion industry. He won Best Fashion Designer at The Global Beauty Awards in March, he’s been actively dressing celebrities, and is becoming a favorite in fashion magazines including British Vogue. His collections are now under one of the best showrooms to pull from, Regard Style House in Beverly Hills.

Caylan recently showcased his haute couture collection at Art Hearts Fashion, New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2019. The lovely collection is inspired by the Renaissance and Elizabethan era blended with modern elegance; from ruffled collars to intricate ruffle bodice and overskirt, from velvet floral appliqué to 3-D floral embroideries, and from sexy asymmetric to an elegant ballgown.

Q: How do you find the balance between your designer’s life, business and personal life?

Honestly speaking, it is tough finding the balance between my passion, the business itself and personal life. Though it is easy for me because I have the most hardworking and talented assistants that I can trust to do the process of constructing the collection, and clients for made to measure dresses. I have to take one step at a time as a designer and as a business owner. I have to find that time to make things work because if I pressure myself, it also affects my work. It helps that my Atelièr is by appointments only as everything I do is custom made. Mostly on weekends, that is when I find the time to enjoy my personal life together with my husband, go out with friends or binge-watching to our favorite TV show series.

In life, balancing is tough when you push so hard in finding its balance. I do believe that it’s like nature, it finds its way, but for sure it comes with guidance from your workplace, people that you talk with, and most importantly getting and feeling that love and support from your loved ones make the tough things go smoothly.

Q: How many days or months do you create your designs to showcase on big fashion shows such as NYFW?

Creating my new Spring/Summer 2019 collection which I have just showcased from the recent New York Fashion Week, took me about six months to complete. It is essential that you take time making a collection, that’s me personally. I always have to make sure that every look has fluidity, balance and most importantly the whole collection should be cohesive. My design process always changes, sometimes, I have to rip and redo a look or design if I felt that it’s not strong enough for the collection.

Q: Every season means there is an upcoming style or trend, where do you find the inspiration to keep your creations fabulous and at the same time unique?

Yes. Every season means a new style and the latest trend comes out. I always make sure that the new trends are part of my collection, and at the same time, not forgetting my aesthetic. I am always inspired by vintage glamour and female physique, but I make sure that I also emphasized modernity yet timeless. Nature, seasons, weather, life story – these are the essential inspirations that I always find in helping me create a new collection. I also believe that “Execution is far better than the design itself,” which is my constant objective and goal in creating a masterpiece in every design that I am working on.

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JET SET is reborn under Creative Director Michael Michalsky

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JET SET is reborn under Creative Director Michael Michalsky

JET SET is reborn under Creative Director Michael Michalsky

Represented By OBCM.

JET SET, the pioneering luxury skiwear brand founded in St. Moritz in 1969, announces its forthcoming relaunch under the creative direction of Michael Michalsky, who will lead all product design and brand experience to reconceptualize JET SET as a genderless, performance-inspired global sportswear label for the millennial-minded.

Michalsky’s vision for JET SET debuts with a bold, graphic brand flag that is rooted in the archive and ties to the label’s Swiss-German heritage yet is executed in a modern color palette of orange, black, and white.

 
JET SET is reborn under Creative Director Michael Michalsky

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Michalsky will lead the design of new collections to be delivered in strategic seasonal drops focusing on skiwear, sportswear, and essentials. The archive will be central to the development of these ranges, and Michalsky’s approach will be curatorial and will transform the design language of the brand. He will select pieces, colors, and graphics to be reinterpreted using the innovations and aesthetic language of today.

JET SET was a brand for a staple of icons, from Grace Kelly to Gunter Sachs. It invented the luxury sportswear market and revolutionized functional skiwear with its choice of colors, development of innovative fabrics, and use of vivid, striking graphics. This confident aesthetic is today uniquely positioned to speak to a global tribe of curious, passionate people of any age or gender and shows that JET SET is forever.

Michalsky says: “I am deeply honored and excited to present a modern vision of JET SET, which created a blueprint for the sportswear market almost 50 years ago. The style and the fabrications that JET SET pioneered continue to influence fashion design today. I see my job as two-fold: reintroducing this brand to those who once adored it and introducing it to a brave new generation of globally-minded consumers.”

JET SET CEO Myriam Mele says: “JET SET once owned the luxury sportswear market, and we believe that, under the direction of Mr. Michalsky, it can do so again. This is an innovative brand that was ahead of its time in so many ways, and more consumers than ever are seeking the authentic stories and confident products that JET SET offers.”

Michael Michalsky is regarded as one of Germany’s most influential fashion designers. Until 2006, he served as the global Creative Director of adidas, where he, among other achievements, oversaw the launch of Y-3. In 2006, he was named Creative Director of German luxury icon MCM, where he served until 2018 in several positions. The Berlin based Designer is the founder and designer of his own label, MICHALSKY, and the Haute Couture collection, ATELIER MICHALSKY. Over the years, he has been recognized with numerous internationally renowned design awards, including Red Dot and GQ Designer of the Year, among others.

Michael Michalsky’s signature will be visible from now on with the relaunch of the JET SET logo. His first collection will debut in Paris with the A/W 2019-20 season.

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