November '03
Hint pays attention to retail

Gaining an early foothold on the white shoe trend for men next spring, Adidas Originals has once again gone back to the future with the Gripper Lo ($75), the latest buy-or-die-trying retro sports shoe from the ever-precocious company. The cleated lace-ups made their debut in the early 80s when slippery artificial turf first appeared on football fields, but its heavy black sole and protective exterior tongue make the clodhoppers perfectly suited to tackle even the worst winter conditions. Call 800-448-1796 for the nearest Adidas Originals location. -Elisa Steene
French menswear whiz Sebastien Meunier, a former ballet costumer and winner of the Hyeres fashion festival prize, is something of a fashion mathematician. Since stepping out from under the aegis of Jean Colonna in 1998, the geometric-obsessed designer has layered his street-inspired line with a graphic assortment of rectangles, squares, triangles and ovals. For fall, he showed sharply-cut hoodies, vests, denims, trenches and graffiti-laden shirts, all with detachable mix-and-match components like protruding elbow patches and codpieces—perfect for that special equation. Available at American Rag in Tokyo, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Apartment in Berlin and La Tintoria in Milan. -Lee Carter


In a kinky convergence of couture and coitus, the London-based artist-designer duo of Basso & Brooke—self-proclaimed "enthusiasts of luxury, pomposity and irony"—produce the most perverted fashion and items for the home we've ever seen. These include hot pads and tea towels illustrated with penises, eye masks quilted with illustrations of genitalia and picnic blankets splattered with ejaculation images. Our fave is a velvet V-neck sweater ($400), featuring drawings of high-heel shoes in which the points are replaced with spouting male members in what has to be the ultimate in self-pleasure. Sadly, the heels are too good to be true, but the pullover is available for purchase at the website, along with an orgy scene of other goodies for both sexes. -LC
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
Study fashion at Parsons The New School for Design in NYC
 

Paradoxically, furniture-maker Rogan Gregory crafts down-home togs like canvas trousers, work suits and other pieces that wouldn't look out of place in a log cabin by using highly advanced construction and wash-processing techniques. The result is Rogan, arguably the most coveted men's and women's line in New York, mythologized mostly among women for its jeans. Steeped in nostalgia for dusty, back woods Americana, Gregory says he owes the line's success to his technique, often abrading and distressing fabrics until they resemble exposed wood grain for a genuine look of wear and tear. Available in Paris at Colette, 213 rue Saint-Honoré, 33 (0) 6 88 69 28 29 and in New York at Nom de Guerre (see page 2), which serves as the NY flagship store. -ES
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