COOL PRETTY COOL /  by Slow Waves

 

Check out coolpretty.cool to see Melbourne model Mercy Sang wearing

Faustine Steinmetz and MM6 Maison Margiela from Slow Waves :)

 

Read about Mercy HERE , images by Chloé Hill

HYPEBAE- Caitlin Price /  by Slow Waves

 

Caitlin Price's "Sports-Luxe" Designs Are Not Your Ordinary Athleisure

The designer describes her take on elevated sportswear and her inspirations

How do you usually go about looking for inspiration?

Each season I spend a long time researching, before I begin designing. I often start by collecting garments and accessories from my own wardrobe, markets or eBay which I might then piece together on the body to work out key styling or silhouettes for the collection.

This season the images on my wall were of 1960s swimsuits and optic prints, girls poolside in Ibiza, club flyers and stills from Jacques Tati’s 1958 film Mon Oncle. I pull together everything I’ve been looking at or thinking about and that’s where the story for each collection begins.

What advice would you give any aspiring designers who wish to start their own label?

It’s very tough. Running a business is hard!

Decide what it is that sets you apart. Don’t copy or imitate, there are a lot of clothes out there, so there isn’t much point in making more unless your really bringing something new to the table.

 

Read the full article by Teresa Lam HERE

 

i-D: yi ng was plucked from the explore page by samuel ross of a-cold-wall* /  by Slow Waves

 

Yi Ng, by her own admission, is a sort of accidental stylist. "I just kind of just fell into it," she tells i-D. "My friends were photographers and often asked me to bring along pieces; I never knew what I stylist really did." By traditional industry standards, Yi's still very green. Still, she helped style one of the most anticipated streetwear shows on the LFWM calendar: Samuel Ross' A-COLD-WALL*. She described the experience as "quite surreal." 

 

I think it's quite clear why your work is so engaging to so many people: it's very well timed — you've captured a feeling of now. "Trends" isn't my favourite word to use, but it's apt. 
 

"That's the thing, you do have to pay attention to trends: to commerce. You don't want to be that artist struggling along by yourself, because nobody understands your work. It's all ego; to think that other people don't understand the complexity of your own vision. It's more likely you need a reality check, you have to be acknowledging feedback. The Internet has made it very easy to quantify that feedback in an objective way."

Read the full article by Isabelle Hellyer HERE

 

Alex Mullins AW17 /  by Slow Waves

'Remember how Dolly Parton’s mother sewed rags together, each piece with love, to make a coat of many colours, that Dolly was so proud of? Well, Alex Mullins’ AW17 collection was a bit like that. Although obviously designer Alex Mullins was not working with rags (we presume higher quality fabrics) nor is he Dolly Parton’s mother, but, well, you get the idea.'

'Because there was something pieced together about this, close to patchwork – beginning with the opening looks, clothes that were on one half were one colour, on the other half another, or the jackets, and scarves, where seams were sewn together with chunky, haphazard stitches.'

'Or those pieces made from tiny fragments of his own hand-painted fabric. And, all set over a sort of warped, workwear-inflected silhouette. We must note also, at the moment of dragging ourselves out of bed this morning, our desire for that chequered look that completely encased both body and head, bar the eyeballs. Or, for that matter, any morning.'

Article from 10 Magazine

CAITLIN PRICE SS17 /  by Slow Waves

 

'For Spring/Summer 17 Caitlin Price's fascination with nightlife rituals moves onto 24/7 partying, exploring the relentless hedonism of young British women on group getaways. Here 'holiday best' style is amplified and abstracted, to create an image of artificial poolside opulence.'

 

Swirl Track Top and Swirl Shorts

'Price's deliberately OTT look this season is intended to play on the idea of aspirational hyper-reality.

Initially inspired by the graphic shapes and saturated tones of the villa set pieces in Jacques Tati's 1958 film Mon Oncle, parallels were subsequently drawn with computer-generated noughties club flyers, and the contemporary obsession with Instagram filters.

These influences are seen most clearly in the collections palette, where candy pastels and punchy chemical brights feature heavily.'

 

Set from Jacques Tati's film Mon Oncle

'Throughout the collection, Price's signature mix of body-conscious club wear and relaxed sportswear has been used to chart a day through night transition.'

These Earrings Are Loud- SSENSE /  by Slow Waves

Ambush's Silver SSS Record Earrings Connect the Dots Between Jamaican Sound Systems and Early Human Exploration

     

    "Earrings were first conceived to make humans intelligible to each other. Swinging like lures from the lobe, they were complicit in communicating status and signalling prosperity. They also whispered more subtle truths of what we hoped to be. In adorning our ears with metal moulded over open flame, we turned outwards toward our own aspirations and toward other people. Tokens of intelligibility, of worth, and of noise, these AMBUSH earrings coalesce a globe-spanning tradition."

     

    Read the full article by Kevin Pires HERE

     

    i-D how to become a boutique owner by...marli atterton /  by Slow Waves

    "A few years ago, an independent boutique called Slow Waves burst onto the scene, adding a positive new dimension to the Australian retail landscape in the process. The woman behind the business is Marli Atterton, who, frustrated with the status quo, created the kind of store she'd like to shop at. 

    Slow Waves is a store stocking hard-to-find favourites and Australian exclusives like Ambush, Filles A Papa, Faustine Steinmetz and MM6, all carefully curated with our seasons in mind. With a background in management, buying, styling and visual merchandising, Marli is continually channelling her many talents and superb taste into her enterprise, all the while striving to keep the high-low balance just right. With Slow Waves' recent upgrade to a new, larger space, Marli shares how she became a poster girl of independent Australian retail."

     

    A huge thank you to Hilary Bourke and i-D for letting us take part in the 'how to become' series!

    Read the full article HERE

    SLEEK MAG- ALEX MULLINS /  by Slow Waves

    One to Watch: Menswear Designer Alex Mullins

    LONDON DESIGNER ALEX MULLINS CREATES MENSWEAR COLLECTIONS THAT ARE VERSATILE ENOUGH FOR WOMEN, BUT DON’T MISTAKE THEM AS UNISEX

     

    Some of your clothes could easily be worn by any gender. Is this something you’re conscious of?
    I would say that my clothes are men’s designs that women can wear, although some of my clothes are female-specific. I think the gender of an outfit is really in the wearer. For example, if I buy a coat I want it to be a men’s coat because I like that particular silhouette and size. But if I buy a dress, I want it to be a women’s dress. Neither the coat nor the dress is unisex. Rather, it is my choice to wear whatever I want. Plus, unisex has never been a very attractive word in my opinion.
    What about ‘genderless’?
    It’s also unattractive. I believe choice is more important. That’s the future.

    Read the full article by Gloria Cardona HERE