Your Daily Dose of Highsnobiety Receive the best in sneakers, fashion and street culture straight to your inbox!Get Black Friday 2017 Deal Alerts! Bergner's Black Friday 2015 Ad Bergner's Black Friday 2017 Deals Coach Handbags & Accessories Vince Camuto® Zip Front Pants Bergner's Black Friday Deals Bergner's Black Friday Store Hours 11/24 In Store Thanksgiving will be open at 5pm until 10pm on Friday (11/25)* *Maine and Mass (both states have laws on when they are open) 11/24 Thanksgiving - All day online All Black Friday Store HoursVirgil Abloh has solidified his reach into the Asian market with the recent opening of the first OFF-WHITE international flagship store in Hong Kong. Located in the Causeway Bay shopping district alongside new shops for COMME des and by Alexander McQueen, the store incorporates a foliage display at the entrance, thick with lush ferns, plants and water dripping down from pipes above. Progressing into the retail space, the interior, designed by New York architect Dong Ping Wong of FAMILY NY and Virgil himself, is constructed from poured concrete and made to look like a cave, hence the staggered levels on the walls that also serve as display surfaces for the product.

Contrasting sounds of construction and ambient rainforest sounds are played from the speaker system. Bronze pipes rise out of the floor, from which the latest OFF-WHITE men’s collection is hung. Make sure to check out this evocative retail experience if you find yourself in Hong Kong. OFF WHITE c/o Hong Kong What to Read Next Earn 6 Clubcard points Delivery options will be shown at checkout (or enable JavaScript to show on this page). American Giant is marching ahead with its Made in America strategy, expanding into several new products and factories. Remarks by Kellyanne Conway on TV urging consumers to buy the Ivanka Trump brand have sparked demands for an ethics investigation. Francesco Carrozzini directed the film and photographed the images. NEW YORK — After nearly three years of planning, designer Virgil Abloh finally got the opportunity to give a lecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Abloh has undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Illinois Institute of Technology, respectively. During the talk titled “Young Architects Can Change the World Without Building Buildings,” Abloh revealed two new — one with and another with a furniture company, which he did not name. Other topics included a book of fashion editorials he’s working on and the rise and fall of Pyrex — and how it directly inspired . He also played Migos’ song “T-shirt,” which was a “life goal, because the stuff that interests youth culture is important, the stuff that we make is important,” he said. “Who is to say that we can’t start cross referencing these things to have a larger feeling? That’s sort of the freedom I create.” What was not up for discussion were the reports that Abloh is in talks with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton to succeed  Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy. Here, a recap of Abloh’s remarks. ON , PRESENT AND FUTURE: Toward the end of the two-hour lecture, Abloh, who was wearing black low-top Air Force 1s with a metallic swoosh, threw a pair of white high-top Blazers with a deformed navy swoosh out into the crowd.

Both shoes were stamped on the side with “Off-White c/o Nike.” Thus he unveiled his Nike collaboration, the release of which is TBD. “This is what I am attempting to do with streetwear, nudging it forward,” Abloh said. eric saade hoodie“If I were to say, ‘Close your eyes and imagine Off-White Air Forces,’ you would have imagined diagonal stripes, which is great — and exactly what I won’t do.” crooks and castles xxl hoodieHe described the project as, “an opportunity to create a new layer and vocabulary.”ragnar hoodie In other news, he said he will be releasing a book filled with more than 400 images that he shot all in one day, and briefly touched on a furniture collection in the works. ibrahimovic hoodie

He’s no stranger to home design — Abloh exhibited furniture at Art Basel in Miami in 2016 and is showing more in 2019 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.hoodie btob ON LESSONS FROM ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL: “A critical moment for me was Day One of architecture school,” he said. “tatty teddy hoodiesI walked in and my professor, who will remain unnamed, but was a cruel individual — which is a classic older generation to younger generation [dynamic], to deflate youth and young energy — hit us with a fact that ‘Only three percent of you are going to build buildings.’ nct hoodieAnd I was, like, ‘Touché, I didn’t come here to build buildings, so these next three years will be a lot more fun for me.’” ON STREETWEAR AND “FAUX-LUXURY” PRODUCTS: Abloh showed “Pyrex Vision,” a 10-minute film directed by artist Jim Joe which inspired his first streetwear brand Pyrex, launched in Chicago in 2013.

Abloh described the line as a part of the learning curve. “[It was] basically putting out your bad work. Pyrex wasn’t made to be a clothing brand. That’s why I stopped, there isn’t much taste in that, but it was a domino effect for me.” The branding from Pyrex represented the belief that impoverished black neighborhoods in Chicago only saw two ways out: either to sell drugs, (hence the Pyrex name, which is used to make crack-cocaine) or to be a basketball player. Shirts from the collection were stamped with the number 23 — Michael Jordan’s jersey number. Abloh later discussed Off-White as a “faux-luxury product, it’s a playground [where]…I can make T-shirts, do shows and make something that moves culturally beyond four walls.”We stand behind everything we sell. If you are not satisfied with your REI purchase, you can return it for a replacement or refund within one year of purchase. REI's guarantee doesn't cover ordinary wear and tear or damage caused by improper use or accidents.