Posted by Sacha Vukic on February 10, 2010
Erin Wasson’s enviable style can be yours. Building from her x RVCA clothing label and high-end accessories line Wasson’s latest jewellery collection, a collaboration with Pascal Mouawad, will begin selling exclusively in Australia at miijo.com this month.
Inspired by the southwest American dessert, Wasson fuses American Indian tribal aesthetics with a sense of the ancient. The collection is like something you’ve discovered in a pirate’s hidden treasure chest or a vagabond’s pouch. Putting a modern spin on her ages-old inspiration, “I wanted to capture that sense of someone on the border, crossing back and forth,” explains Wasson.
The rings, necklaces, cuffs and bangles look like something from a foregone time, yet Wasson’s gift for the streetwise and sartorial means you’ll be looking enviously fashion forward with these pieces.
We are giving away this fabulous armour knuckle ring to one lucky new subscriber, so get subscribing.
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Posted by Sacha Vukic on December 8, 2009
‘Blog’ is such an ugly word. It’s almost too daggy to be associated with the stylistically elite likes of Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist fame, a dapper American chap who makes the whole computer geek-esque act of creating an online diary, fastidiously updated daily, look very cool and in fashion.
That’s because Scott Schuman is intuitively fashionable. His astute sense of fashion and style, classic, edgy or otherwise veers him towards attractive and superbly dressed strangers on the street, who allow him to take glossy mag-quality pictures of them for his blog.
Schuman is up there with Lily Allen and Chk Chk Boom girl when it comes to internet sensations. Now reaping the rewards sewn in humble Blogspot (and a myriad of other fashion side projects) he is amongst Time magazine’s top 100 design influencers, has a monthly column in GQ magazine, and has turned his blog into a book.
Scott Schuman is in Australia, assessing antipodean style and will be signing his book in Sydney and Melbourne this week. Meet the man behind the blog and maybe get your photo taken.
Sydney
Tuesday December 8
6-9pm
Sass & Bide, 132 Oxford St, Paddington
Melbourne
Thursday 10 December
6-9pm
Sass & Bide, GPO, Bourke St
the sartorialist, scott schuman, sass & bide
Posted by Sacha Vukic on November 25, 2009
At first glance, AnOther LOVES is innocuous, inspirational online eye candy. Although soon enough you realise that this "living library of luxury goods" is the next reason you might forgo private health insurance (again), and potentially be eating toast dinners for the foreseeable future.
A connoisseur's portal to the top shelf lifestyle the site is sifted, sorted and styled by AnOther magazine's global network contributor's and created by ahem, ahem Kluster's very own Founders and Web Designer Luke! Feather quill by Gareth Pugh anyone? Look no further. Knuckle duster clutch by Alexander McQueen - sorted. An alarm clock by Hermes, perhaps?
Warning: it's a seductive vortex of time - great for the procrastinating, bad for people familiar with debt collectors. Watch, look and learn - the site will continue to grown until, conveniently, just before Christmas.
Yves Saint Laurent Brooch by Yazbukey
another magazine
Posted by Sacha Vukic on October 7, 2009
Brooklyn duo Zaza are Jennifer Fraser and Danny Taylor. Emanating from the indie psychedelic shoegaze scene humming out of Williamsburg at the moment, their sound adds something more mystical and ethereal to the mix. Kluster’s Sacha Vukic spoke with Jennifer Fraser about New York, making music, and acts of fate.
Covered: pyschedelia, inspiration, David Byrne, the EP, the name, touring.
Sacha Vukic: You are based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. What’s this we hear about an indie pop psychedelic shoegaze scene emerging outta there?
Jennifer Fraser: I definitely agree that there’s something psychedelic happening within our midst. I don’t have a name for it and I don’t think that any of those applications are perfect, but yes. Something wicked this way comes.
There’s Amazing Baby, MGMT, Chairlift, Grizzly Bear - all these bands with beautiful sonics, interesting compositions. Everyone brings something extraordinary right now. That’s why I think it’s so hard to classify, but yes, we’re in good company.
SV: Are you at all influenced and inspired by one another?
JF: No, not so much. I don’t think that at all. I think we all have the same influences from the past I think that there’s an energy that generates through all of the bands, like a sense of support and a sense of healthy competition. But no, I think New York consists of so much inspiration in everyday life that it comes from everywhere.
SV: What do you think about making music and being creative in New York City? It’s so intense – do you think it helps or hinders the creative process?
JF: It’s so electric here. I mean you can just feel it. It’s just palpable, but it is really hard to designate your time. My life is completely devoted to Zaza and Danny and writing and I always make time to go and see other bands, witness art.
There’s just amazing things. David Byrne, just a few months ago, had this installation, where he made a whole room an instrument making industrial sounds, attached to an organ. It sounds strange, but there’s just always art to see, there’s always productions here, amazing food, always something to do. Yes, you can get lost in it, but you need to have a good balance.
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