Friday, October 2, 2009

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Band of Outsiders Spring 2010 Men's: Menswear Fashion Collections on men.style.com: "Scott Sternberg set the bar impossibly high with last season's ultrasmart Dogville-influenced presentation. This time around, he opted for something simpler, a literal interpretation of summer sun, beach, pool—the kind of California fantasy that might be nursed by a guy growing up in Ohio. But, this being Band of Outsiders, it wasn't quite so simple. Sternberg had been watching Jacques Cousteau docs, and he was keen on blending their rugged nautical types with his own aesthetic. That was never going to be easy, given that his signature tailoring is so schoolboy-small that there's not much room for butch. Okay, there were some peacoats, and the models were wearing Jacques' toque, but let's leave the Cousteau thing aside as a diversion and focus on the ways that Sternberg relaxed his look. I liked a shrunken tux with a powder-blue polo (and green suede Top-Siders), a khaki shirt jacket over white cuffed shorts, and a cream suit with a chambray shirt. And Sternberg took some inspiration from Ed Ruscha, California's poet in paint, for dip-dyed, airbrushed shirts. The designer's fantasy summer soundtrack was a composite of Led Zeppelin and Beach Boys beauty Dennis Wilson—more proof of the subtle extremes that define this label's intriguingly perverse personality.
— Tim Blanks"

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