Coveteuring at DSM

>> in case you don’t know from my Twitter and Instagram, I’m still holed up in New York following the Alexander Wang x H&M shebang.  I should have been enjoying non-fashion week time in New York, taking in the crisp autumnal air, seeing friends and taking in exhibitions.  Instead, I’ve been chasing down geek squad guys to try and recover extremely important phone/Mac/SD card data, getting bouts of food poisoning and watching too many hours of E! and Lifetime.  Therefore excuse the intermittent posting.

Before these calamities happened, I managed to drop by Dover Street Market New York to do a very quick shoot for The Coveteur, where they documented me whizzing through all seven floors of the store, touching up and trying on some of my favourite bits.  I have to thank The Coveteur and the powers that be at Dover Street Market for basically allowing me to get up close and personal with current season pieces.  I might be making silly faces at a giant Comme des Garçons knitted skirt or scrunching up my face in the Sacai corner but there’s nothing superficial about the pieces on hand. DSM is one of my fashion spiritual homes for a reason.  It’s serious fashion. Not that po-faced kind of seriousness but serious as in heavyweight and substantial.  And as this fun photo story shows, it’s tangible if you want it to be. See The Coveteur for more pics from the shoot.

Limited edition Prada pieces… oh how I love thee… 

Hiding behind the puffed up Junya Watanabe 

Drooling at dream Junya biker and thinking “Hmmm…. will never actually be able to get this on my back permanently…”

Still love the fact that DSM New York have a dedicated corner to NY cult legent And Re Walker.  Apparently this photograph in the background features his mother.  

I became quite attached to this Simone Rocha dress….

The more manageable side to Comme des Garçons AW 14-5 collection

Giving Comme des Garçons‘ gigantic polymorphous skirt an equally giant hug

J.W. Anderson’s geometric and exacting accessories

Hiding behind a curtain of AW14-5 Sacai

I love the homewares at the Good Design store like this Comme des Garcons brochet blankets and stuffed animals.  

All hail Walter van Beirendonck!  There need to be more places in the world where you can get fixes of WVB.

Melitta Baumeister is the latest addition to that special 4th floor of young designers 

Yay for Phoebe English, who DSM has supported from the very beginning.

Getting familiar with Jacquemus’ roomy explosion of orange.

My spiritual state of wellbeing, made better by this World Archive Chinese gown foraged by the wonderful Michael Costiff

Throughout, wearing Toga shirt, second hand Lucien Pellat Finet skirt from Vestiaire Collective and Simone Rocha x Dover Street Market shoes