Private Collection: Teen Angst Journals
Life before blogging with five years of journals, dug up and explored.

What I (w)could buy, if I won
Real estate, art auctions and gadget drool, using "The Secret" method of winning.

Looking Back
Late 90s into the early 00s, lookbooks worth speaking about.

Tipping Point: Alexander Wang
Will 2010 be the year that the designer secures his standing within fashion's elite?

The Family, Richard Avedon.
The uncompromising austerity of the plain white background leaves no room to hide.

Invitations Only, Fashion Shows
Arc brings you these show invites from the early 2000s

Netflix Instants: Arc's Picks
Watching without a disc has become increasingly easier, and better. Watch these now.

Fashionable Anagram: Balmain
The creative chaos of a sole visionary is stolen and transformed into a global fashion brand.

David James Associates have been quietly defining the aesthetic of the zeitgeist for over twenty years. This statement reads under the about section on the davidjames-outofprint.co.uk website. They have been under the radar in terms of a company but their work speaks loudly. The campaigns for Prada since the early 90s and countless other Miu Miu campaigns as well. The London based agency has most recently designed AnotherMan magazine, which showcases a volume of typographical exploration twice a year. Below are some of the early campaigns and even some show invites for Prada and Miu Miu.

+J Collection for Uniqlo

German minimalist, illustrious visionaire, textile goddess, Jil Sander has exclaimed “…I’m timeless for the moment,” when speaking about her line +J, a match made in shattered piggy bank heaven with Japanese conglomerate Uniqlo. She’s going back to her Hamburg studio to continue designing the future, ie. enjoying the ability to accentuate the harsh lines and frail frame of the rich and poor. Thank you Jil Sander, you’ve shined a charcoal shaded beam of light into my bleak, broke(n) and sad existence.

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As both the fashion and tech industries get their knickers in a twist over the suspension of tween darling Tavi Gevinson’s blog by Google, we bring you some other Yohji Yamamoto images, this time, from Fall Winter 1997. Creative direction is from M/M Paris, and photography by Craig McDean.

Will 2010 be the year that New York designer Alexander Wang secures his standing within fashion’s elite? Even by today’s standards, his rise has been quite astronomical; from winning the CFDA’s Fashion Fund in 2008 to being nominated for best womenswear designer in 2010 alongside Marc Jacobs and Donna Karan, his career has been given quite the push. The March 2010 issue of Interview magazine prominently featured the designer with a shoot by Mikael Jansson and interview by Diane Von Furstenburg. His Spring/Summer 2010 campaign features images shot by Fabien Baron, and styled by Karl Templer, and a glance over any of this month’s magazines will show a healthy amount of credits for the ‘young’ designer. And if this were not enough, his headquarters are befitting of a truly successful designer. SAD blog brings you these images from his Spring Summer 2010 lookbooks, and recent editorials.

The final post in this series is the Autumn Winter 1997 campaign. Creative direction is from Marc Ascoli, photography by David Sims, styling by Joe McKenna, and design by M/M Paris.

Third in our series is the Autumn Winter 1999 campaign. Again, creative direction is from Marc Ascoli, photography by Craig McDean, styling by Joe McKenna, and design by M/M Paris.

For the Saturday matinée, Arc presents, Balmain: The Story of Ian Lamb.

The creative chaos of a sole visionary is stolen and transformed into a global fashion brand.

In short, this video is not to be taken seriously and holds absolutely no authentic merit, whatsoever.

all images from Style.com