Umit Benan

Umit Benan's SS10 collection, titled: CUBA is inspired by the photography of Slim Aarons, who is noted for shooting the luxurious holidays of the glamorous and wealthy. He looks specifically at a young Cuban business man. It brings up thick imagery to me of a black and white photograph of a smokey room in which there are smartly dressed men with cigars and wiskey, perhaps from this image taken by Slim Aarons:

I know it is a very different kind of fashion to what I would normally post but Umit Benan is my style inspiration for when I get old and crazy and alcoholic. Especially his retired rock star collection which is F/W10 on this website umitbenan.com.

Versus Fall 10

So in love with the lingerie inspired dresses in blue and red and the contrast of textures used. How CUTE does Lindsey Wixson look in that red dress by the way! And then they have obviously got the more sophisticated little-black-dresses which are still kept sexy with the detail around the bust.

Non, the Golden Dawn

My favourite pieces from the Non Golden Dawn AW10/11 menswear collection lookbook. I really want this brass collar on the top image, it's like the masculine version of the Miu Miu collar, although god knows I would still wear that! Probs' wouldnt wear that weird ghost of christmas future wrap up thing but it looks cool what ever. The high-waisted phantom of the opera, bow  trousers I would though, I've just been really waiting for something to come along which really takes all these feminine trends and says hey you know what, this looks sick on a dude to!
It is official, I may just start buttoning all of my shirts up backwards. I just tried it, doing the top button up... my room is very hot and with the lack of oxygen I almost passed out so, do so at your own risk i spose! The cape is also something like the collar you could just pull over anything to give it a bit of a fashion edge, you could just make your own by buying a knitted sweater and cutting it off, then slitting the sleeves and body and sewing it in to one... maybe a future project when I have a bit more time :/. Definitely something interesting happening with this quite new brand though. This collection was inspired by a Cult group called the Golden Dawn and basically the whole concept of people rebelling against the set religion and experimenting with magic and taking rituals to dangerous extremes. There are some other images on their website, which i linked to, which do have dark veils and cloaks but you may think it seems about low key for such a dramatic stimuli; personally I think that is the beauty of the whole thing, it's the secrecy, the traditionalism but with an awkward twist, very ethereal but in a discrete way. BAYM!!
Thank you to sexanddrugs.tumblr.com for popping this wonderful brand up on my home page, much appreciated!! ha