N7 Shades of Grey

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>> Along with seemingly EVERY media outlet out there, I too have not escaped from a poorly constructed title, which infers to that phenomenally successful book, which we shall not name.  These photos were taken when we were crying for sun back at the beginning of summer, weirdly fitting for Helmut Lang's A/W 12-3 stormy collection of tree prints, hellfire reds and their now-signature leathers and draped pieces.  They've just launched their Guest Blogger's Series with myself, Street Peeper and Chic Muse being the first guinea pig participants.  I took a few of my favourite things from the collection and they all somehow fitted in with the tinges of grey that my N7 hood is most capable of projecting.  Holloway Road doesn't do pretty save for the Thierry Henry statue outside the Emirates Stadium.  It does kebab shops, Gooner pubs and grafittied squat residences – all good spots to be wearing tactile bits of fur-collared leather, draped silk and jersey apparently as well as the pre-requisite puffa jacket.      

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Helmut Lang flux fur jacket, Helmut Lang tree collage top, Comme des Garcons skirt, Balenciaga heels

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Helmut Lang nitro puffa jacket, vintage Mei Hui dress, Issey Miyake skirt, Nike Lunar Hyperworkout

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Helmut Lang drift print dress, Helmut Lang midnight floral wedges, Junya Watanabe trenchcoat

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Helmut Lang tree collage top, Helmut Lang Midnight Floral skirt, Dries Van Noten jacket, Anastasia Radevich booties

27 comments

  6. The Helmut Lang hood. So inspiring shape, so hard, cool for me :))
    Thanks for discovering me Street Peeper!
    A Kiss Susie!

  16. If Fifty Shades could only be 10% as good as this style, i’d be SO happy 🙂
    inspiring, as usual…

  21. Ack! So bummed to see fur among all your inspired style 🙁

  22. It’s got to be said that I don’t have an anti-fur stance. i’m on the fence in so much that it’s not something I’d choose to buy but I don’t reject it on an aesthetic level if I genuinely think it serves aesthetic purpose. Also, I do believe there is no way of checking out every instance of fur sourcing – there are of course examples where it can be ethically sourced.
    Also if I draw one line at fur, how does leather and certain lambskin products square up then? Toxic fumes of dyes wrecking the environment, damaging the health of human beings working in the factories? Terrible working conditions of factories?
    What I’m saying that holding an anti stance on fur and not on other equally harmful/pertinent issues is just plain deluded…

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