KYE X SHU UEMURA /  by Slow Waves

Luxury cosmetic brand Shu Uemura has collaborated with Korean label KYE on a K-Pop inspired limited edition collection!

We are pleased to be the exclusive stockist of KYE in Australia

MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA Spring Summer 1990 /  by Slow Waves

An oral history via The Gentlewoman

"As a student I always thought that fashion was a bit superficial, all glitz and glamour, but this show changed everything for me. I walked out of it and I thought, That’s what I’m going to do. That show is the reason I became a fashion designer."

Raf Simons

"He was my best assistant. When after a few years he wanted to leave and start his own collection, I could only be happy for him and wish him good luck. From Martin’s first show I saw immediately that he had his own voice and his own way."

Jean Paul Gaultier

Read the full article by Richard O'Mahony here- http://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/margiela-the-show

FAUSTINE STEINMETZ X CHEAP MONDAY /  by Slow Waves

 

We are pleased to be one of the few selected stores worldwide stocking the exclusive Faustine Steinmetz X Cheap Monday collaboration, arriving in store next week.

 

ANN-SOFIE BACK /  by Slow Waves

BACK on the streets of Paris

Hanging Out in Tokyo with Yoon /  by Slow Waves

The AMBUSH co-designer took Amuse around her favourite spots in Shibuya

 

'Yoon is one half of the design duo behind cult Japanese jewellery brand AMBUSH. She’s the girl we all want to be – talented, stylish and effortlessly cool. When she’s not in the AMBUSH studio, Yoon is djing parties in New York and London, modelling for the likes of Louis Vuitton and Doc Martins, or shooting a cameo in an A$AP Rocky video.'

 

 

From businessmen and fashion people to tourists and students, Shibuya is like a melting pot of everything in the city. Does Tokyo still have that mix of madness and mayhem that keeps creatives and their creativity alive? “To be honest, I do feel like the energy here has diluted over the last five or six years. Style has become homogenised. The way people dress and what’s cool is the same here just like everywhere else."

 

Read the full article here- https://amuse-i-d.vice.com/hanging-out-in-tokyo-with-yoon/

@faustinesteinmetz /  by Slow Waves

Faustine Steinmetz on Instagram

"On a good day we can weave almost a meter of fabric, but the next day we tend to be a little slower! In total it takes just over 2m of fabric to make a pair of our jeans…"

"Crafting a piece from scratch allows me to know where the raw materials which we use are sourced. It's really important to me to know where everything comes from... think it's so important that we question where our clothes come from..."

"The setting up of one of our looms takes a full day to be complete. All 455 warp yarns have to be individually passed through the heddles on the loom and then the reed which takes quite a long time..."