New American Menswear and Accessories at The Ensign

A hub for upscale items, designed and produced in the USA

With an eye on numerous factors that make fashion both wearable and desirable—striking images and editorials, forward thinking designers, ease of purchase, a defined identity—The Ensign has become an important new online shopping destination. The brand only stocks clothing, outerwear and accessories designed and made in America. They feature the latest designers, and during fashion week employed a “See Now Buy Now” function that let …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Women of NASA Legos, Jack White's Detroit record-pressing factory, the "death" of street-photography in Japan and more

1. NYC Gallerist Denied Entry to the USA As longtime fans (and neighbors) of NYC’s design gallery Chamber, we were shocked to hear that its owner, gallerist Juan Garcia Mosqueda, was detained upon re-entry to the US and sent back to Buenos Aires recently. Mosqueda, a legal resident of the US for the last decade, who lives on the Lower East Side, was returning to …

The Death of Fashion in Harajuku

For 20 years now photographer Shoichi Aoki has documented street fashion in the hyper-stylized Tokyo neighborhood of Harajuku. Despite the neighborhood’s small size, its impact on Japanese culture has been expansive—especially in fashion, where it made popular bold, colorful and cartoonish sensibilities. The area and its occupants have changed, however, with mass-market clothing brands dominating. This has led to Aoki’s pronouncement that street-style photography here …