Interview: Kate Endress of DITTO

Find the perfect fit for your next pair of spectacles with their highly sophisticated iPad app

As more and more consumers turn to the web as their primary retail space, the necessity to move away from a simple “buy now” button to a more comprehensive interactive marketplace is growing. Trying things on for size in a virtual world is not a novel concept, but most retailers fall flat on execution. DITTO, a relatively new San Francisco-based company, has taken on this …

Battenwear SS13

Corduroy, velour and duck cotton in the Brooklyn-based sportswear brand's third surf-inspired collection

Founded in 2011 by Brooklyn-based designer Shinya Hasegawa, Battenwear—formerly known as Batten Sportswear—takes a playful approach to active menswear design, favoring unconventional fabrics and colorways with a vintage surf-inspired aesthetic. Delivering all of the above and more is the recently launched SS 2013 collection, anchored by soft pastels and peppered with corduroy, cotton and velour. Although it’s just the young brand’s third season in production, …

Bridge & Burn + OMFGCO Workwear

Three of Portland's brightest—and tallest—creatives inspire a capsule collection of heavy-duty shop gear

Fritz Mesenbrink and Jeremy Pelley of Portland, Oregon’s prominent design agency, The Official Manufacturing Company, had a problem. Two of the city’s most prominent creative makers, they were both too tall and lanky to fit into standard studio overalls and jumpsuits. Fortunately, long-time friend Erik Prowell, owner and designer of apparel company Bridge & Burn, and himself rather vertically gifted, offered them a solution in …