Percival Fashion Film

Percival's 2012 Autumn/Winter Fashion Film is trippy.

Lots of pre-production planning with many edits that are planned to work with each other.

I also like their most of their clothes even though most of the inspiration are stolen the styles are still contemporary.

Dockers Men Of Style

Dockers pants have always been an American blue collar staple.

Recently they've been doing a lot of collaborations and video to gain more attention on the younger generations.

Here's a small video series of 6 sylish men talking about their own style and how they develop their own fashion sense.

Surprisingly...Nick Wooster is going to be featured there.

MAISON KITSUNÉ Look Book Video

In terms of lookbook videos, MAISON KITSUNE is probably one of the most successful in high fashion.

A Sunday afternoon in Paris, you wake up brain dead, you dance on your bed, music pumping loud, you try on your clothes, you pack, you leave for another place.

It's raw, romantic, young, wild, stylish.

British Subcultures

Fred Perry Japan invested into making some short documentaries on the development of subcultures in Britain. It traces the origin of how rock & roll leather bikers, tailored slim cropped preppy mods or skinny studded punks came into development.

It a interesting look at why fashion was important in the old days especially for the poor working class.

For 60 years Fred Perry has been influential for the British youngsters,  it has grown internationally and selling the English heritage globally.

Inside NIGO's Collection

If any of you guys are into Asian fashion you would definately heard of BAPE, the successful street wear brand from Japan, Harajuku.

Nigo the founder of BAPE is also a collector that has his own warehouse located in Japan. From the collections you can see the influence of his design as the Creative Director.

The video opens the door of the collection studio where he places a small portion of his collection.

Welcome to Summer, boys

Summer, the days on the beach checking out girls. Unless you have something to impress the ladies... You'll need to put something on top. Here's my inspirations for this coming Summer.

If you do have the body then your're all set for Summer

Photo Bloggers to Vloggers

Photo blogging, particularly fashion photography blogging has been extremely popular over the past years and is continuing to grow all over the world.

Blogs such as The Satorialist from New York, Garance Dore from Paris/New York and Men in this Town from Sydney have developed a very solid fan base of followers that check out their websites daily searching for fashion trends and tips.

One of the trends though, is happening within the blogs. More of these bloggers are attempting to post and create videos for their content. Although having their own background in photography they sometimes hire or make the video themselves.

I don't know their reasons behind making videos for their website, but it is definitely exciting for me because it seems that the online video market is growing and we see more and more people demanding to create videos for their websites.

Although the film industry might be dying, the video industry in my opinion is growing.

Gentlemen of Style

Surgram Films and Guerreisms have collaborated to produce a video on fellow Gentlemen around the globe. They been all over fashion magazines, blogs, photos, videos, interviews. These men are not styled by others, they have developed very personal styles through the years with trial and error.

Style needs to be developed and is individual for everyone.

Part 1 & 2

Fashion Recycled

Some of you hate this idea,

Some of you live by this idea,

Some of you haven't even heard of this idea,

It's called "Thrifting", act of shopping at a thrift store, flea market, garage sale, or a shop of charitable organisation, usually with the intent of finding interesting items at a cheap price. I know that some of you have already been getting into this habit picking up great cheap vintage items.

I personally like this concept because I believe that you don't need to go into flagship stores and purchase overpriced clothing to be fashionable. Style can be affordable if you have a great taste, attentive eye and also have no problems with hygiene (beware to wash before you wear!).

This is an example of a successful person that lives by thrifting, Sean Brown and he even has his own website that promotes this concept The Art of Reuse.

Think everyone should attempt adapting to this concept cause it reduces your expenses while keeping yourselves stylish :)

They also have a crew of thrifters, opening a second hand store, promoting this concept to people, blogging news about thrifting and educating others with this idea.

Men's Hair Care

First impressions are very important as most of you acknowledge by now, and everyone seems to look at people's faces first. So the groom of you face is crucial to distinguish you from others.

Some like it overgrown, some like it neat and tidy, but nevertheless it was taken care of before you step out of the house.

Some spend hundreds on their hair and some never do, but it represents who you are.

Surprisingly Auckland seems to have a fine barber shop for men to finer cut their hair too. Even th guys down at New Zealand have places like this goes to show how important it is to the rest of the modern world.

Creative Lookbook Video

I'm so so so sick of fashion video that just make models walking in the forest, at the beach, some room while the sun is setting.

This fashion video I like, it's got a story, display all the range of colours and ways you can match the pants.

The story is fun, no-one gets harmed it's like a love it or hate it small video.

Provokes thought and makes it memorable.

James Bond's Wardrobe

Ever wondered which designer or what brand the iconic "licensed to kill" secret agent wears?

Apparently the new film Skyfall the costume designer chose Tom Ford to become the formal wear of the new James Bond movie.

Want to know why? Check this video out

Need Supply Co. Spring Lookbook 2012

Need Supply Co. is a website that sells fashion clothing.

They have created a video to look at the styles they recommend in their stores for Spring/Summer.

What I love about this video is that they try to recreate the distinguish style of  Wes Anderson.

The 60s, 70s fashion styles, quirky characters and geometric camera angles.

This is a pretty good attempt of his style, so if you admire Mr. Anderson you should be taking notes.

Street Fashion Photography

It was by total chance that these two came across when we were shooting our documentary for uni in the city.

Shot with my GH2 & 25mm f/1.4.

It good so see that there's more and more of these stylish men roaming around Sydney.

Style Illustrated

This Blog does really nice fashion drawings for his blogging material.

This is a short video that he made to start of his blog in January.

Pack like a Gentlemen

Most of you are planning to travel, short trips around Australia or overseas for a holiday.

I am sure that most us stress a little when we pack our clothes in out bags or suitcases. Trying to be most space efficient while not wrinkle your clothes or the new pair of shoes you've bought.

Here are two nice & simple videos that can help you in the very long run.

Street Etiquette X Put This On

Two very popular mens online fashion blogs:

Street Etiquette as I've introduced to you before they very much concentrate of their own style while teaching people let me how to work with what you got, financial and wardrobe wise. The masters of mix & match.

Put This On is a fashion blog that teaches you quality, which items a brand is specialised in, how to tell the difference between actual quality garments or just bullshit marketing. They also advises on the right investments especially on suits and other items that should last you a life time.

This cross over video gives out tips on how be smart when buying second hand clothing and how to makes certain items work for you in a thrift store.

Supreme Guests

Whether you like it or not Supreme has been a very infutential streetwear brand globally and not only reaching out to the teens but also adults. The Style Guy from GQ Glenn O'Brien agrees.

P.S. I hate it when you can't adjust the aspect of this video!

Blogger's influence in Fashion

Street Etiquette is a fashion blog website that I visit regularly because of Joshua and Travis' eye for style and not just going for high-end expensive clothing.

They have developed a huge fan base over the years from Look Book to their own website. They explain their pieces in detail so people can see their insight about their taste and eye for style.

This video they again lets us go into their world and let us understand how bloggers impacted the fashion industry over the years and the roles they are starting to play in the coming years.

Haters are gonna hate

I don't really find Edison Chen's style particularly stylish so I don't see myself going to their store JUICE in Hong Kong buying any CLOT products.

But I guess I'm just a hater? Anyway in this video he is gonna "modify" a pair of nike shoes for a Nike X CLOT collaboration and he basically just sands the surface of the shoe, making it appear "worn out".

I personally hate the idea of buying torn and worn clothing because I believe in buying a new item for wear & tear. So basically I think Edison looked like a retard here for 13:25...can't believed I watched this shit...and the cinematography was unstable and constantly out of focus.

Anyway comment below if you agree with me or support Mr. Chen