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Drive Slow: Michael Williams shines light on a four-in-one brand called Slowear. [A Continuous Lean]
The Slim Fit: Kenton Sorenson pares the wallet down to bare essentials. [Valet]
The Throne Is Watched: Pharrell’s Billionaire Boys Club line just partnered with Jay-Z’s Rocawear for the streetwear equivalent of the Traveling Willbury’s. [GQ]
The Land of Trend: Inside Editd, a new, webby take on the future of fashion forecasting. [The Business of Fashion]
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Pharrell can be grating, but he still manages a flash of brilliance from time to time. Like this. Or, more importantly, the item on the left.
To be fair, he had a lot of help from Moncler—who have a bit of experience with this sort of thing—but the basic conceit is unmistakeably his: a “pacifist” bulletproof jacket. Of course, it’s not exactly bulletproof. In fact, it bears a striking resemblance to a style of puffer vests currently making its way onto boutique shelves, but this one’s a little darker, a little stranger, and a whole lot more interesting thanks to the sinister undertones.
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Pharrell’s Billionaire Boys Club label is usually too firmly on the streetwear side of things to catch our eye, but this striped shirt caught our eye as a potential crossover piece.
It looks like something we’d pick up at A.P.C.…so much so that we scoured their back catalog looking for this exact item. But the issue isn’t sartorial plagiarism so much as a healthy exchange of ideas. This item made its way from pasty Parisians to hip-hop futurists in just a few seasons.
Does that mean streetwear is going French?
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Feast your eyes on this clownish couple, but be forewarned before clicking to enlarge the picture: they’re so plastered with logos we got acute conjunctivitis just looking at ‘em. Underneath all the claptrap you might recognize NASCAR nuggins Jeff Gordon (right), and a certain Mr. Pharrell Williams, who has won the adulation of the style set despite the fact that he dresses like an 11-year-old Japanese kid with ADD and way too much disposable income.
The painful-to-look-upon pair posed the other night at a Hollywood party for the Pepsi 500, the yearly race held at the end of the NASCAR season at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Despite the similar getups they were not in fact there as a couple; Gordon was accompanied by his hot model/actress wife Ingrid Vandebosch. At least he has good taste in something.
Despite what Kanye might tell you, the market for high-end streetwear based on sci-fi movie in-jokes is somewhat limited. And for A Bathing Ape, the Pharrell-endorsed Japanese import, time may be running out.
**You Look Like $4,257**: A complete price breakdown of MOTH Patrick Dempsey’s Versace ad wardrobe. [FWD]
**Public Affairs**: Hilfiger to lead parade of fashion IPOs this year. [WWD]
**Man of The Moment**: On what is quickly becoming our (second) favorite blog, Adam Kimmel takes over T‘s Pitti Uomo coverage. [The Moment]
**Billionaire Bling Club**: Pharrell teams up with Louis Vuitton for jewelry line. Be afraid/excited. [Now Public]
**Name Dropping**: “Yeah, aren’t you the guy who’s not getting through my security checkpoint?” [StyleDash]
**Slimboy Fat**: Clooney rocks the wide look, perhaps hastening the eclipse of the skinny tie. She Knows Best [Magnificent Bastard]
**Aussie Love**: Heath Ledger squires model Gemma Ward. Not bad for a balding single dad. [Nimoy]
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