meerkat products ltd.

Guillame Not Included

A Motorola/Burton collaboration, the Audex snowboarding jacket with Bluetooth speakers embedded in the neck of the thing and iPod (which you drop in an inside pocket) controls on a little panel on the arm, is so choice. I’d be sorely tempted to wear it around town, doing a DJ-on-the-go wearable soundsystem thing, bring the world into my soundtrack, let 'em know how I roll. Shot the jacket for the current issue of reFRESH.

Boom Boom Cruz

From the presskit for Volver; some lovely thoughts by Almodovar on creating Penolope Cruz’s smoking hot look and vibe in the film. “Penelope is at the height of her beauty. It’s a cliché but in her case it’s true. (Those eyes, her neck, her shoulders, her breasts!! Penelope has got one of the most spectacular cleavages in world cinema)….It was a pleasure to dress, comb and make up the character and the person. Penelope’s body enobles whatever you put on it. We decided on straight skirts and cardigans because they are classic garments, very feminine and popular in any decade, from the 1950s to 2000. And it also must be said, because the reminded me of Sophia Loren, in her beginning as a Neoopolitan fish seller. We have to thank the hairdresser Massimo Gattabrusi for the wonderful disheveled hair-dos and Anan Lozano for the make-up. The extended eye-line was a real find. There is just one false element in Raimunda’s body, her ass. There characters are big-assed women and Penelope is too slim. The rest is all heart, emotion, talent, truth and a face the camera adores. As I do.”

How To Buy A Suit

Andy from Yoko Devereaux just e-mailed me this tip: 

For guys that are looking to buy a new suit and/or their tfirst suit, it can be a rather expensive and kinda scary situation...  I know that we here at Yoko Devereaux get suit related questions ALL the time.

For those of you looking for additional tips / more information on buying not only a great suit, but the right suit, GQ.com just launched a 7 minute service piece appropriately titled 'How To Buy A Suit'.  Simply go to www.gq.com and click on link directly at the site...

This video is not only directed by Douglas Keeve (Unzipped), but also features commentary from both GQ creative director Jim Moore and GQ style editor Adam Rapaport.  These 2 know their suits.  Trust.

Halston, Gucci, Fiorruci

The decadence, glory and absurdity that is Fashion Week is over. I only caught the GenArt show but it was remarkable how much difference good music would make for okay clothes where bad music would make good clothes look simply okay. My buddy Wilson Chan did the music for six show that week, including Zac Posen and Derek Lam. The playlists are below if you wanna work your own runway at home, and to hear the sets asgo toWilson’s own website, www.mrwilsondj.com

 

Meanwhile, at the NYT there was a sweet Men's Fashion mag this last Sunday with this friendly French fellow grinning at me. I'm heading to Paris in a couple of weeks to do a shoot for reFRESH and this image is inspiring me today.

Martian Hot

I’m pleased to debut a new contributor today, one who, like the rest of them, chooses to go by an alias, thus keeping his secret identity and job as a painfully hip ad man safe. And he shall be known as…Creepy Little Boy.

There has to be some arcane design theory out there that can illuminate for us mere mortals the protean allure of sylph-like supermodel Kate Moss (RISD grads, anything?). Her look over the years has proven remarkably fluid, deftly adapting itself to tortuous cultural trends and perspectives with an almost precognitive precision. Who could’ve guessed when she made her controversial debut as that waif in those Calvin Klein ads that she would eventually break with the mannequin rank and file and establish herself as a pivotal, iconic “species of one” in the upper shelf of the fashion eco-system. Perhaps its testament to how perfectly vapid she is…I mean, the photographers are just as responsible here, it’s their shit that gets projected through the lens, introducing us to new and personal interpretations of beauty. But yet, there is something so utterly alien and malleable about the Moss physiognomy itself. Witness her latest campaign for CK…it’s vintage Kate, yet different. Gone is the naïve almost prurient bearing of the 90s, replaced with a cool, frosty, knowing allure that seems to begin in her posture and climax in the broadened, angular plane of her face. It’s more Verushka than Verushka. To go for the really rad analogy, it’s almost as if the doe-eyed gelfling-girl has been killed and replaced with a more adult, resplendent version of self…one that is timeless, impervious to scandal, durable and for the ages.

      

Gratuitous Antonioni Porn Shot Below

The Plunging V-Neck Arrives

My friend Sloane reported back from a weekend on Fire Island a month ago that the American Apparel Sheer Jersey Short Sleeve Deep V-Neck was the hot new thing; guys were mobbing the revolutionary early adoptor queens who were busting out the $18 Tees and demanding to know where they’d got them. By the next weekend the shirt was ubiquitous, white and pink being the most popular colors.

We used the Deep-V for an Island Style shoot I produced for Key West Magazine that appeared in March. Somehow I think this rather dramatique Tee has a different effect on our model Aaron, an extremely laid-back boat captain, than it does on the well-groomed Fire Island set. But a Tee that highlighted waxed, worked-out male cleavage was probably inevitable. More  shots of Ollie and Aaron in the second part of this post.

Island Style via Key West Magazine

All Photos Jordon Nuttall