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“Opening Ceremony”
02/02/09
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Labeled

The New Class

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Uniqlo has a remarkably catalog for a down-market brand, but even more impressive is how many upscale designers they’ve managed to tempt in for collaborations. Alexander Wang, Loden Dager, Tim Hamilton were all on last year’s list, but apparently the ‘qlo has a few more in the works.

Over the next few months, they’re rolling out two new men’s collections from Opening Ceremony and Gilded Age respectively. (Shipley & Halmos, sadly, stuck with womenswear.)

Gilded Age acquits themselves fairly with a set of baggy, nautical gear, but we’re more partial to Opening Ceremony, not least because of their electric blue suit that looks like it could have come right off Pete Campbell’s back.

See the suit, and Gilded Age’s contribution»

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01/14/09
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Good Idea

Opening Up

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Having already enlisted Tim Hamilton, Loden Dager and creepy retail mimes, Uniqlo is setting their sights on one of New York’s finest: Opening Ceremony.

Opening Ceremony’s light kitch and occasional summer-in-Stockholm vibes should fit well with the Japanese megabrand, and it’ll be nice to see them get a little more recognition. For now we’ll just cross our fingers and hope it’s a men’s line.

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12/02/08
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Storefront

Learn to Fly

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West-coast boutiques are getting in on the online game too. The latest is Seattle’s Blackbird, which has brought some of our favorite brands to its new online storefront, including Opening Ceremony, Rag & Bone, and Acne Jeans. Of course, you could find most of these brands elsewhere online if you looked…but it’s always nice to have a well-chosen selection.

See our favorite items»

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08/11/08
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Across the Sea

Haterwatch: Olympic Edition

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Apparently not everyone shares our sanguine take on Ralph Lauren’s Olympic uniforms. In fact, so far the web response to the outfits has been positively bloodthirsty.

Gawker—a reliable snark purveyor—calls out the polo logo for upstaging the Olympic rings. It’s true that the logo makes the branding play a little more shameless than it might have been, but that’s the American way. We’re building a brand here! This is for the good of the nation!

Scrambling for more angry voices, Gawker quotes a commenter on a fairly benign Project Rungay post, saying “They made the team look like a 1948 yacht club.” But, of course, that’s the whole point.

And, in case you were curious about the other, more hallucinatory parts of the pageantry, you can catch a colorful overview here.

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08/08/08
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Dept. of Corrections

Scar Tissue

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Have you ever had the feeling that the person you were speaking to was subtly mocking you? Maybe it was nothing tangible, just a touch of aloofness, a sense that everything was proceeding with a slight touch of irony…

Well, now you can get that feeling from a New York Times style piece.

The Gray Lady’s latest offense is about band aids as an accessory, pointing to recent offerings from Marc Jacobs and Alexandre Herchcovitch as examples—the latter recently featured at Opening Ceremony—and taking Mr. Nicholas James Brown as its unfortunate centerpiece.

More on the ill-fated Mr. Brown»

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05/30/08
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Gisele Gets Wet (Kinda) and Men Go to Sex in the City (Maybe)

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Gisele Wears Naught But CGI Water: Damn you,
Photoshop! [Popcrunch]

Sonia Rykiel Closes Men’s Line: And we’re not going
to stop her. [ href="http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/080530-rykiel-homme-to-close.aspx">VogueUK]

Blue-Blood Style: 2108 Vintage releases sweaters for
those Ivy League shits who’ve been making your life miserable (not
that we’re bitter for being waitlisted). [ href="http://animalnewyork.com/news/2008/05/elitist-sweaters-for-sale.php">AnimalNY]

Blue-Collar Style: Way on the other side of the
economic spectrum, our boy at ACL revels in 1940′s workwear. [ href="http://acontinuouslean.com/2008/05/29/the-real-deal-workwear/">A
Continuous Lean]

“Why Are Straight Men Seeing Sex and the City”: They
are? Really? Are you sure? [ href="http://gawker.com/tag/exclusive/?i=394250&t=men-seeing-sex-and-the-city-why">Gawker]

Cannonball!: Finally, some good advice on swim
trunks. [Hint]

Deal Alert: Get down to Opening Ceremony and Acne you
dirty, dirty hipster. [ href="http://racked.com/archives/2008/05/29/opening_ceremony_and_acne.php">Racked]

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03/13/08
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Dept. of Corrections

It’s About Times

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Did you notice anything odd about the href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/style/index.html">Times
Style Section today? We don’t mean href="http://www.getkempt.com/linkout/loose-threads-chicken-fashion.php">chicken-fashion
odd – indeed, we mean good odd. Look, when The Grey Lady offers up
another David
Coleman piece about the resurgence of pants, a “Modern Love” entry
on dead babies/girlfriends/husbands or whatever href="http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/no-exit/">dust
bunnies are rattling around Cathy Horyn’s head, we’re always the
first ones to take the piss.

But today…

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03/04/08
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Kermit Meets Terry, Mod Style and Glowing Toiletries

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Roger, Wilco, Out: StyleDash href="http://www.styledash.com/2008/03/03/intervention-jeff-tweedy/">
thinks Jeff Tweedy needs a style intervention due to his SNL
appearance in a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudie_suit">nudie suit.
Similarly, we think Style Dash needs a music intervention due to their
apparent ignorance of the href="http://rateyourmusic.com/misc/link_image?album_id=8266&image_hotlinked">Flying
Burrito Brothers ( href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCqxq6xqoXI">video). [ href="http://www.styledash.com/2008/03/03/intervention-jeff-tweedy/">StyleDash]

Team Colors: An interview with sideline style leader
and coach of the 5-and-11 49ers, Mike Nolan. [ href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amanda-christine-miller/whats-my-logo-49ers-coa_b_89074.html">HuffPo]

Housing Futures: Figuring that all the collapsing
real estate market needs is a fresh blazer, “Fashion Futurist Geoffrey
Beane” (say whaa?) is teaming up with Century 21 (not the store) to
redesign their iconic gold jacket. [ href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080304005979&newsLang=en">Business
Wire]

For
Absolute Beginners: Buying into Mod style. [ href="http://www.modculture.co.uk/culture/culture.php?id=49">ModCulture
via Retro
to Go]

Best Men: Engineered Garments brings home the
inaugural GQ/CFDA Best New Menswear Designers in America award (oh,
and $50,000). [ href="http://men.style.com/news/blog/2008/03/and-the-gqcfda.html">Men.Style]

Leading Lights: Luring men toward a new shaving cream
is much like luring
mosquitos to a high-voltage death. [ href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/business/media/04adco.html?_r=2&ex=1362373200&en=a7e3c4f2ee6abac0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">NYTimes]

Historical Threads: Classic American style parsed.
[A
Continuous Lean]

It’s Not Easy Being Green: Kermit the Frog gets his
slimy, webbed hands on Terry Richardson—or is that the other way
around? [Skidknee]

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01/11/08
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Sebastian Whorsley, Middle Relief and Ascot Justice

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**Structural Support**: In the near future, girdles will actually tone your body—so go ahead and have that third brioche. [Style Dash]

**Alphabet Soup**: GQ + CFDA. [FWD]

**H to the Izzo**: Your man Sean Carter picks up another fashion label. [Female First UK]

**Viva Kimmel**: A less luxurious outlook from Florence. [Men.Style]

**Back to The Well**: More deals at Opening Ceremony. [Racked]

**Legal Suit**: Judge rules that prosecutor’s ascot, “borders on contemptuous,” a precedent soon to be employed in the case of Neckkerchief vs. State of Ohio. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

**Product Placement**: Adrian Grenier pimps We Are the Superlative Conspiracy with the cryptic, “Remember… remember.” [TMZ]

**Retrospective**: 2007, the year tacky broke. [Electric Warrior]

**Small Cap Investment**: The Journal puts a “buy” order on the fedora. [WSJ]

**Boy Toy**: “How To Dress Like The Perfect Couple” by Christopher “Ashton” Kutcher. [Harper's Bazaar]

**”I Remember The First Time I Had Real Sex—I Still Have The Receipt”**: Oh, Sebastian, you scalawag you. [GQ Style Guy]

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12/20/07
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Hugo in SoHo, Gucci Olympics and The Holiday Blues

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**High Grain**: Ever wonder what your leather valise looks like under electron microscopy? No? Aw, you’re no fun. [Carrying Contraption]

**Newsstand Edition**: An interesting Canadian charity that distributes jackets warmed by newspaper. [15Below Project]

**Spring in Your Step**: Opening Ceremony’s desert boots coming next season. [The Daily Upgrade]

**Big Blue**: Our beloved Cathy Horyn writes 1,245 words on Pantone’s color of the year. We wrote 90. Guess that’s what separates the men from the boys—so to speak. [NYT]

**Here Comes the Boss**: And in the continuing mallification of SoHo… [Racked]

**Pretty Shocking**: An appropriately colored gift for the endangered woman in your life. [Bangkok Mafia]

**Track Suits**: Next year’s Olympians will be battling each other (and the Beijing smog) in Gucci. [WWD, subscription required for full article]

**House Bound**: Yes, we would prefer a $2,000 Jay Kos robe with silk lining and piping to a pair of socks. Thank you. [NYT]

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