Time to time you come a cross to a thing you don’t know what it basically is and you scratch your head. Alban from Vernato approached us and said: “We are a new brand that focuses only on world cultures. We are two Europeans that came to the US at an early age. We looked around and there were no brands that designed what we had in mind. We went ahead and build a whole brand on the message of Cultural Meaning, or Meaningful Culture. Every piece of t-shirt that we introduce has a cultural meaning behind it.”

Message of cultural meaning? I’m a little bit lost there but nonetheless I think the basic consept should be rethought a little bit. Personally I think the culture and cultural meanings go deeper than just a word of the nation in question and some plain national symbols. Some of the shirts (like Russia) might even go a littel bit to the unbalanced surface of nationalism… Well, you can judge it for yourselves above.  But good luck to guys anyways.

www.vernato.com

Very talented young designer, swedish Sandra Backlund, is releasing her new collection for S/S 2010. The knitwear is awesome as always and with a boost by the italians White Club collective, Backlund will reach a bigger audience for her beautiful work. Snadra says in her bio: “I build my garments by hand from a couple of basic bricks which I multiply and attach to each other in different ways to discover the shape that I want. In that sense I approach fashion more like a scupltor than a tailor.” And boy does she chisel beautifully.

www.sandrabacklund.com

Linda Steprane send us a bunch of photos and looks like she is a talented designer. She told us: “I am a fashion designer, all of my works is self made with no assistance.”

The website will be online at January 2010 but if you’re already interested about her designs, you can make a contact via email: steprane@gmail.com

And now something little bit different. Melissa tells us: “Melissa Michaels is a multi-talented entrepreneur, model, author, designer and film producer. When not writing Melissa focuses on her clothing lines, The Original Unity Brand: Inpeloto BodyWear and IBe Wear, in which she designs eco-friendly t-shirts, hoodies, head wraps and t-shirt purses made from 100% organic cotton, recycled material and bamboo.  Inpeloto is an acronym, which stands for: INfinite, PEace, LOve, TOgetherness.”

www.inpeloto.com

Cindy Ho tells us: “Summerdoll is an ultra-feminine women’s fashion label by Singaporean designer Cindy Ho. Her label carries ready-to-wear chic and casual dresses for all occasions. From casual cotton sundresses to flowy maxi dresses, flirty chiffon creations to chic jersey staples, Summerdoll’s philosophy is to design dresses which are stylish and yet easy to wear.”

www.summerdoll.com.sg

More street wear is always good. They do not tend to follow any trends but picks up the best from the style people wear and use their everyday clothes on streets, skate parks, urban basketball fields etc. They are influenced by the alternative pop-stars, skate heroes and others a like. Carrot Clothing is a serbian street wear label with a recent good uplift. The founder began by just printing anti-war t-shirts in politically unstable Serbia and thrown to jail. After that, founded the label.

Above picture is a sneak peek from upcoming 2010 lookbook.

www.carrotclothing.net

There’s lot of fashion designer pairs, a couples and/or a share-minded visionaires in fashion world. These two almost always  has something that defines them very much something like of their own. Like a rare breed of some usual animal. Cannot say exactly what it is but definetely it is not a negative thing. In some cases it looks like it’s almost a virtue. Flora Gill and Alexa Adams are not an exception. Their just released new spring and summer collection do not have a big impact in fashion industry but there’s something Derek loves. Maybe something “mondrianesque” if you ask me.

www.ohnetitel.com

Not very orthodox post but couldn’t help laughing when seeing these (under the title “Fashions’ finest at your finger tips!”). Do you agree the fashion icons really look more chic when they are made as finger puppets? You can have the box set as Paris, London, Milan or New York. Trés bien!

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