BAND OF OUTSIDERS !!!

HELMUT LANG SS09

PAMELA LOVE in store now!

CURRENT/ELLIOT

The Elephant Bell is in store now!

ALEXANDER WANG SS09 1ST DELIVERY

COMMON PROJECT SS09

     IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!

Spring 2009 from Band of Outsiders on Vimeo.

Secret Society is proud to announce that we will carry Band of Outsiders for Sperry Top-sider, the coming season. Have a look at the posted video, for a sneak peak of the collection. We will present more detailed pictures later on.

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SS

Happy new year!

We have received a new shipment with Visvim. The FBT Waxed 2-Tone and one long time favourite of ours, a boat shoe called Hockney. In addition, we have received the Ballistic 20L Shaker rucksack.

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SS

Victoria's Secret yearly show, is probably the most sought after runway show in the world. One might suspect it is because of hot ladies like Adriana Lima, or maybe artists like Usher performing live while the birds are showing of the latest undressable underwear. Anyhow, this show sets the standard for the term sexy (look up sexy in Oxford English Dictionary, and I bet it says "Victoria's Secret is synonymous with sexy"), and it brought smiles to our faces, when we took a second glimpse at the bird's shoes (as you can imagine, that is really hard).

From Paris with love: Pierre Hardy.

Pierre Hardy is experiencing a great momentum internationally, and the sales through in cities like NYC, London and Paris, is overwhelming. The fact that VS chose Pierre Hardy for the 2008 show, says it all. Forget Louboutin, it's time for the French shoe master.

We have got a 50% discount on all Pierre Hardy styles, and have even got left the style Marisa Miller is wearing on the picture above. Drop by to secure your pair, while they last.

Did we hear anyone say sexy time?

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SS

Secret Society MAN

Maison Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe MAN, Common Projects, Visvim, Arne & Carlos, Number (N)ine, Comme Des Garcon, Red Wing

Red Wing Shoes

Secret Society is proud to be stocking products from one of the true original american work wear brands, shoes from the classic work boot maker Red Wing. Since 1905, Red Wing have been producing shoes of the highest quality, from its factory in Red Wing, Minnesota. The classic style 877 (top picture) was introduced in the collection in 1950, and as the boot was intended as a hunting boot, it got its color (the distinct "Red Wing" red) and nick name from the classic upland bird dog; The Irish Setter. 

As Red Wing describes it "All work and no play tend to make dull boys. So Red Wing leveraged its work boot heritage to create a boot for play. In this case, play was upland game hunting. Designed for comfortably walking the prairie grasses and fields, its durability would last season after season. For over 50 years the 877 has been a legend in the field."

We are stocking the classic 877 and style 2975 (11" Engineer). And since these shoes works just as well for the girlfriend, as it does for the boyfriend, we have got both men's and women's sizes. 

While we are first at it, LA Times have written a nice article on the current work wear trend (as seen in Number (N)ine's current collection - My Own Private Portland). Head over to LA Times, and catch up on those long time achievers. 

Red Wing ad from the '30's

If you want more inspiration for the classic heritage look, you should keep an eye on ACL. 

Finally, could this be the largest shoe ever?

Drop by to secure your precious feet.

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SS

We have received a new shipment from Common Projects.

Common Projects keeps it simple. No fuzz. No frills and furbelows.

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SS

UNDER COVER LAB

The following text and image are from Klein Dytham architecture for their design of the Under Cover Lab in Tokyo, Japan.

Under Cover Lab is a design studio for one of the Japan´s leading fashion designer, Jun Takahasi of Under Cover. The building itself is very undercover, not only tucked away in the back streets of Harajuku in Tokyo, but the site is also very deceiving. A narrow but long driveway leads to a 12m x 12m site at the rear.

Read more; www.arcidose.org/apr02/041502.html

Arne & Carlos is back. Let's call it a re-positioning, and it seems to be a successful one. When we met the two of them at Rendez-Vous in Paris earlier this year, their sales stand had been invaded by a bunch of the top-notch stores in the world. The buyers from the best Japanses stores we're stunned by their collection, and when the buyers from Dover Street Market ask to sit down, I guess you have done something the proper way.






As the cat is out of the bag, we can reveleave that Rei Kawakubo of Comme Des Garcons fell in love with the collection, and have commissioned an exclusive collection (Arne & Carlos for Comme Des Garcons), which will be on sale in all Comme Des Garcons boutiques by the end of October. Impressive. Look out for a write up on Arne & Carlos in the coming issue of Monocle.

We have got the regular collection in stock, and that means the better part of the products pictured above.

Drop by to get your hands on these great products, that reminds us all of our childhood.

Enjoy the weekend,
SS

Current Elliott

"For years Emily Current and Meritt Elliott - a.k.a. the styling team MAUDE - have been shopping denim. Unable to find what they wanted to wear for themselves, they started buying vintage jeans and tailoring them to a more modern fit. They started wearing these customized gems to fittings and shoots, which soon were spotted and coveted by their celebrity clientele. They have introduced customized vintage denim to everyone from Mandy Moore and Nicole Richie to Emma Roberts to name a few. Not only were these jeans a perfect timeless fashion piece, but have each person that wore them a sense of individuality - a nice alternative to a sea of dressy denim, offering an authenticity to girls who don't have time for sourcing flea markets and vintage stores. MAUDE was thrilled at the opportunity to launch their denim dream with the line CURRENT / ELLIOTT, aptly named to honor their own design sensibility. They recreated these special one of a kind pieces with comfortable stretch Japanese denim, produced in their hometown of Los Angeles. Every style offered has a historical reference, an original vintage sample, and a year of origin. From the hip skinny slouch of "the 1968", the elephant bell of "the 1971" to the traditional shape of "the 1957", each individual style pays homage to the importance denim has played throughout American history. Other interesting elements of note are the side-seamless leg of U.S. navy inspired "the 1977", the wide elastic waist of "the 1959" athletic short, the worn and grinded chambray of "the 1965" artits smock dress and the square pockets of "the 1955" shrunken jacket. Each wash from loved to super loved is truly such and feels as though it has had a century's worth of wear. CURRENT/ ELLIOTT is unique and timelessly appealing. As with vintage, it promises to love and be loved for years to come and transcend denim trends with its timeless aesthetic." currentelliott.com

Current Elliott is the denim brand of the moment. Secret Society is among the first stores that stock the brand world wide, along with amongst others, Ron Herman in LA. The LA stores are having trouble keeping the denim in stock, and Vogue described it as "...the most refreshing denim line to come out of LA's jeans scene in a long, long time", in it's July issue (see below for the Vogue article).

For the moment, we stock The Elephant Bell (below) and The Skinny (above). We will receive a new shipment in November, with The Skinny in black.



Drop by to check out Current / Elliott at Secret Society.

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SS