Nikolaj d’Etoiles' Bombers for SS11

For spring/summer 2011, Sweden’s Nikolaj d’Etoiles hase provided the ‘sports casual’ obsessive in all of us with an absolute beauty!

This lightweight shower proof ‘bomber jacket Harrington hybrid’ style piece comes in 3 color-ways that are befitting to all sides of the gentleman's wardrobe.

Available with contrasting gold ‘track style’ zippers for some eighties hip hop styling or tone on tone to translate to a more preppy styled equation this is easy to pair with a sweat, some chinos and the Jack Parcells—equally at home partnered with trousers, penny loafers, and a shirt or tee shirt—versatility maketh the garment!

The Windard's aesthetic is a considered a mixture of breakdance-esque eighties hip hop, collegiate prep and pure 1950's sartorial menswear making it THE jacket for SS11.

See more colors here.

Photos & text Copyright Nikolaj d’etoiles.

fhonetics—Exploring New Sounds Today, Remembering Tomorrow

With a Master’s of Science in Linguistics, I am all too familiar with phonetics—the physical sounds of human speech. So now, I am becoming acquainted with a new kind of sound—fhonetics—which is echoing from the shores of the Baltic Sea.

Established 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden, fhonetics is a relatively new brand by two designers, who have translated the music and rhythm of the modern-day explorer into sophisticated collections of men’s fashion design.

Much like the natural beauty of their native city, which extends across 14 islands and on into an archipelago of 30,000 islands, islet rocks, and skerries, Anders Backéus and Magnus Johansson echo within their collections nature’s luminescence cast upon pelagic tones and deep-sea colors.

Charting the waters of cubism and surrealism with a mist of art deco influence, the AW09 collection “Remember Tomorrow” aims at sailing the contemporary wayfarer into futuristic fantasies of traditional preppy tailoring.



Slideshow 2009 a/w & s/s collections Copyright fhonetics.
Photo top right by Brion Vibber Copyleft at Wikipedia.