Gemma Kahng

Our studio visit and interview with the veteran fashion designer on her first collection in nearly 10 years

Perched on the top floor of a nondescript building in New York’s fashion district you’ll find veteran designer Gemma Kahng‘s studio. The bustling space serves as a showroom, office, archive, design studio and production workshop, housing more than twenty years of inspiration pieces, vintage couture and past collections. From here the exuberant Kahng is staging her “comeback,” as many are calling her return to regular …

Test Drive: 2013 Ford Fusion

Upscale design lines, advanced technology and unmatched fuel economy in an all new sedan

You can’t help but notice the 2013 Ford Fusion, a midsize category-busting car hell-bent on improving suburban driveways around the world. The new Fusion is the first car that very clearly articulates the ONE Ford mantra (cars designed for a global market) and the company’s Kinetic design language (which debuted on the Evos concept car launched in Fall 2011 in Frankfurt). Ford sold Aston Martin …

Yaeca Ergonomic Jacket

Functional simplicity and clever detailing from a modest Japanese designer

Founded in 2002 with a focus on the symbiotic relationship between our environment and style, Japan’s Yaeca makes supremely simple and highly functional garments accented by cleverly subtle details. We recently came across one of the latest urban outerwear designs called the Ergonomic jacket, a mid-weight top layer featuring an internal carrying sling. This simple strap allows the wearer to drape the jacket on the …