São Paulo Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2010 Highlights

The most compelling shows from Latin America's premier fashion event

For this season of the most important fashion event in Latin America, Felipe Meres of the São Paulo-based site Made-Up Disease selected the most compelling, ravishing and innovative shows for Cool Hunting. Alexandre Herchcovitch Womenswear Inspired by ethnic East European garments, Alexandre Herchcovitch’s excellent F/W 2010 collection will also be presented at New York’s upcoming Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The collection features rich embroidery, gorgeous patterns …

Giuliano Fujiwara Spring/Summer 2010

The Japanese brand offers a colorful take on the minimalist trend

by Richard Prime Regarded as a key player in minimalist tailoring, Japanese label Giuliano Fujiwara presented an invigorated spring/summer collection at Milan earlier this month. A subtle, gray palette tempered by cherry red, acid yellow and bold blue accents commanded the runway, making for a perfectly restrained collection of avant-garde fashions. Originally spearheaded by Yoshiaki Fujiwara, the quarter-century old label is now helmed by Masataka …

Geometry Lessons T-Shirts

An Australian artist turns conventional shapes into an unconventional tee-shirt line

by Anna Carnick For artist Lincoln Mayne shapes don’t get any better than geometric ones, a theory he recently put to the test with his debut t-shirt collection Geometry Lessons. His designs center around three ubiquitous shapes—the circle, the square and the diamond—but his treatment of them looks more urban-tribal than grade school. Mayne’s unconventional approach comes thanks to the Australian’s fine art background, which …