Most men shouldn’t be allowed to dress themselves let alone suggest what a woman should wear. But every once in a while I’ll stumble across an item of women’s clothing that makes me think, “I’d marry a girl on the spot if I saw her wearing that.” I call it #WifeMaterial.
I’ll normally only ever walk into Dover Street Market if I feel that I’m wearing a decent amount of black. It’s cool, sure, but every floor there is so wildly different and I usually don’t know what the hell I’m doing there anyway so the black helps me strike the right balance between “Guy who’s only pretending to look at Raf Simmons” and “Guy who’s scoffing at Supreme despite it being the only brand within his budget.”
I recently found myself a few floors off the inspiring Murray Hill streets in the NikeLab section and saw an entire rack of women’s clothing that looked like it was about to be wheeled into a hypebeast ballerina dance practice. Translated from Fuccboi, that loosely means “super hot.” I swear this windbreaker almost bucked my long-held hypothesis that the concept of holy matrimony is a purely capitalist conceit fabricated, promoted and perpetrated entirely by the BIG WEDDING lobby.
Turns out NikeLab did a collaboration with Chitose Abe’s brand sacai, still riding the waves of their Lands’ End x Bugle Boy-Reincarnate menswear showcase. This brought “a perfectly subtle Japanese aesthetic to some of Nike’s classic sport apparel,” per their website. Although in that moment, and without a dozen Google searches under my belt, I didn’t know any of that. All I knew was that I was willing to follow that rack of clothing—and specifically the NikeLab x sacai Windrunner—into an adjacent dance studio and chassé, step, leap across the floor and land perfectly in fourth position at the feet of future Mrs. LuLu Shanks.
Windbreakers are hot. This entire collection is hot. This ballerina/tennis skirt take on it is an entire 140 Twitter character field of fire emojis. Go get it and get ya self a man.
Lucas Shanks is a writer, editor and creative in New York City. If you want to marry him, you have to follow him on Twitter first.
Last night Kith opened the Brooklyn outpost of its hip downtown store and the scene was lit with sporty, hip-hop style. First-in-line invitees (the party was maxed out within 30 mins of opening) sipped champagne and chugged Heineken while testing out the store's debut CEREAL BAR, Kith Treats. What else could make an already kick-ass shop better than adding in a bar that serves tricked out bowls of a childhood classic? Choose from the pre-designed menu combinations (we recommend "The Bam Bam" -- an OOC mix created by Action Bronson including every fun cereal from Lucky Charms to Cinnamon Toast Crunch PLUS Kit Kat Chunks) or design your own using the easy check-off order forms. Designed by Snarkitecture, the space boast's Kith's signature clean aesthetic with white and black lacquered brick walls and a sculptural array of white sneakers hanging from the ceiling. Head out to shop the latest in hot sneaker collaborations or just to have a sweet pre-concert snack (the shop is only a few blocks away from Barclay's Center): Kith BK, 233 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
@jendelacruz
@elizafalloon
@suedejury & @dancinginheels
NikeCourt
@jendelacruz
@elizafalloon
@suedejury & @dancinginheels
KITH chocolate and giftables
@laptop_lasane
@creative_ian
@manneeni
@virgilabloh kept it kickin'
@fashionistajenn
@sadpitt
@kithnyc #kithtreats
The Bam Bam
What happens when the event the NY Times dubs "the most multicultural festival in the US" comes to Brooklyn? Peops get down with their funky selves and let loose with stylistic expression, that's what. Photographer James Nova hit up this year's AFROPUNK FEST and snapped the best festival street-style looks for us. Check em out:
Photos by James Nova
Clockwise from Top Left: Irreverent by Carine Roitfeld, $58 (available here); River Island sandals, $96 (available here); Topshop striped midi-dress, $125 (available here); Elizabeth and James mini backpack, $495 (available here); Quay Australia sunglasses, $50 (available here)
WE NEED THESE! WANNA FILL THE CULT CLOSET? BUY THEM FOR US HERE.
