local designer, coutourier, artist, and nightlife luminary one-half nelson contributed the owl and rorschach prints for the a.ok tees – regarding the two: “the owl print has a lot of personal signifigance to me. Owls are my family’s gardian animal. The rorschach print is part of a self portrait series in the process of completing. see left for images of a large scale collage from the same series.”
FASHION WEEK IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO PREPARE THAN WITH ALEXANDER WANG OR THREEASFOUR. FOR FALL WANG PRESENTS A VERSATILE SELECTION OF CLOTHING THAT MAKE THEIR WAY FROM THE OFFICE TO THE EVENING. NUBBY WOOL AND LEATHER SHORTS, TAILORED BLAZERS, AND HIS SIGNATURE KNITS ARE ALL REPRESENTED. THREEASFOUR, ON THE OTHER HAND, OFFERS A STRIKING AND SPECIFIC TAKE ON FALL WITH A DEFT USE OF PIECED FABRICS IN A STUNNING BIKER JACKET, CATSUIT, AND LEGGINGS. METALLIC FLOURISHES MAKE THESE STAND OUT AND CAPTIVATE WITHOUT JARRING – NO EASY FEAT THESE DAYS.
Ryan Blomberg is an illustrator and artist living in Brooklyn. He works in crayons, markers, and watercolor and has done illustration work for Hamish Hamilton, J+L Books, various blogs and magazines and most recently, us. to see more of his work, visit ryanblomberg.wordpress.com and shesafan.wordpress.com
about the ‘total troll’ and ‘wicked spiritual’ prints he did for us: “The images were inspired by the Groovie Goolies cartoon show and Monster Mash video. I wanted the shirts to look like coloring contest winners from a supermarket Halloween promotion. The text just gays it up a bit.”
ONE OF OUR HIGHLIGHTS DURING FASHION WEEK THIS PAST SPRING, ANNA LARSON’S ERRO IS ONE TO WATCH WHEN IT COMES AGAIN IN A FEW WEEKS. NOW IN ITS SECOND SEASON AND HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME AT OAK, ERRO IS A DARK AND GLAMOROUS COLLECTION FOR FALL WITH AN EMPHASIS ON TEXTURE AND CRAFTSMANSHIP. STANDOUTS ARE THE PANELED LAMBSKIN LEGGINGS AND THE LEATHER DOUBLE LAYER BLAZER.
