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Lemaire f/w 2018 rtw Creative Directors Christophe Lemaire & Sarah-Linh Tran Fashion Editor/Stylist Benoit Bethume Newest Cool

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Clothing study ft. Lemaire

Recently found the designer Lemaire and the aesthetic they have going on is just so on point for me. Plus I needed to do more clothing studies this weekend, perfect reference to use.

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Arnaud Lemaire wears a coat and fall fashions from Dior Homme.

THE GREAT ESCAPE: VICTOR NORLANDER & ARNAUD LEMAIRE FOR MADAME FIGARO

THE FASHIONISTO / PUBLISHED OCTOBER 26, 2016 / UPDATED OCTOBER 31, 2018

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Brioni AW23

I hadn’t thought about Brioni in a long time, probably not since their disastrous run with Stylist/buyer Justin O’Shea as creative director back in 2012, particularly distressing because it was clear that O’Shea didn’t particularly like the brand and was doing everything he could to dissemble it, which is why the new collection feels so apt.

The current designer, Austrian Norbert Stumpfl has been in the role since 2018, tasked with taking the brand towards a younger customer (notoriously Donald Trump had his ill-fitting suits from the brand, and their average buyer is 50+) and he speaks often in interviews about Brioni being personal luxury which is to say, people don’t necessarily know someones wearing Brioni, it’s not a brand that screams but whispers, but it feels and it is crafted in such a way to make the wearer feel comfortable, graceful and confident. 

It’s a vision of luxury thats shared with relatively new and independent brands like Lemaire and The Row and one I've always felt sympathy for. There's also a lot to be said for what they haven’t done, not a single tone-deaf sneaker or obnoxious monogram, just subtle, elegant nods to sportswear in the form of a baseball cap or wool anorak, a soft leather crossbody and yet, they haven't abandoned the beautiful tailoring that is Brioni’s heritage, those gently tapering pleated trousers worn on both men and women feel so contemporary in context but the shape is quite similar to what they were doing 10 years ago. 

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Clothing

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Edward, 26 Kevin, 32

Edward: “Sunglasses are Gentle Monster, sweater is Open YY, pants are Homme Plisse Issey Miyake, bag is Lemaire, and shoes are Loake. My style leans more androgynous with a big emphasis on shapes and silhouette. I’m always inspired by designers and just everyone around me who push new ways to approach form and shapes whether it be through tailoring or creative styling.”

Kevin: “I’m wearing a Frankie Shop blazer, Lemaire wrap t-shirt, Commission jeans, and Margiela tabi flats. I’m definitely more a uniform dresser – I love clothing that can take me thru the entire day for any occasion. I am always mixing something comfortable yet elevated. If it’s not comfortable, I’m not wearing it.”

Mar 7, 2024 ∙ Lower East Side

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who was Augusta Chiwy?

Episode 6 of Band of Brothers is a masterpiece, but I think writer Bruce C. McKenna made a huge error in only including Augusta Chiwy as a background character with no name in the episode, while Renée is a focus. I did some research on this amazing hero, who honestly deserves a miniseries of her own.

Renée Lemaire and Augusta Marie Chiwy (pronounced shee-wee) were nurses that lived in Belgium before the Battle of the Bulge. They volunteered to help Dr. John ‘Jack’ Prior (who was assigned to the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion) when the battle started. Dr. Prior evacuated the wounded soldiers he was taking care of from Noville to Bastogne as Noville was taken by German troops. Lemaire and Chiwy both volunteered to help Dr. Prior take care of the massive amounts of wounded men who were brought from the front lines into Bastogne. 

Augusta was born in Belgian-colonized Africa (in the part that is now Burundi) to a Belgian father and African mother. Her family moved to Belgium when she was a child, and she trained as a nurse there. She was visiting Bastogne to see her father when the Battle of the Bulge began. She chose to use her skills as a nurse to help the soldiers who were trying to defend Bastogne from German forces. 

Augusta Chiwy was heroic in her work during the Battle of the Bulge. War historian Peter Chaddick-Adams wrote that “Chiwy accompanied ‘Doc’ Prior to collect casualties from Mardasson Hill, north-east of Bastogne, wearing a GI uniform because her own clothes had become saturated with blood.” Chaddick-Adams wrote that Dr. Prior thought that bullets missed Augusta as she was out on the line because she was “so small.” Augusta was only 23 years old when she cared for hundreds of soldiers during the battle. 

Renée Lemaire was killed by the Luftwaffe on December 23 when German aircraft bombed the Bastogne aid station, along with thirty wounded soldiers who were also inside. Augusta Chiwy was blown through a wall but miraculously survived the bombing. Her contributions to saving lives, and providing comfort to many soldiers in their last moments were largely unrecognized until 2011, when Augusta Chiwy was granted Knighthood by the king of Belgium for her service in the battle. The American ambassador to Belgium also presented Chiwy with the Civilian Award for Humanitarian Service. At this ceremony, Chiwy said: “What I did was very normal. I would have done it for anyone. We are all children of God.”

She passed away at 94 years old on August 23, 2015. 

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/world/europe/us-honors-belgian-nurse-for-heroism-in-world-war-ii.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/augusta-chiwy-forgotten-african-nurse-of-battle-of-the-bulge-dies-at-94/2015/08/27/8ff843ec-4bfb-11e5-84df-923b3ef1a64b_story.html

Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45 by Peter Caddick-Adams, pages 374-375 

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Lemaire Spring Summer 25

We love Lemaire and it’s never ending positive perspective on producing clean-looking clothing. Everything from Lemaire is always so refined, clean, and direct. The Spring Summer 25 show staged at the Place Des Vosges provided us with men’s looks which feel like what you would envision a Haruki Murakami novel character might be dressed in. Well that’s just our perspective at least. Models sported…

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where do u get ur basic clothing items? like those belts, blank black t shirts, jeans, etc. i like the dark blue jeans u posted with ur arm bruise

literally everything I'm wearing is from the brand I work for and used to work for! so I actually didn't pay for them because in reality they're really fucking expensive lmao. these are the sorts of brands that do those clothes, if you can't afford them then my only advice is what I've done which is work for them and slowly collect pieces over a number of years

studio nicholson, sunspel, margaret howell, everlane, lemaire, A.P. C. (I don't own any of their clothing but I think it's similar vibe and quality as these) and uniqlo especially uniqo u i know its fast fashion so obv shop there responsibly (dont buy superfluous items) as you should be doing everywhere anyway

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where do u buy most of your clothes? and where do you get your latest fashion inspiration from?

most of what i wear is from la apparel, sometimes brandy melville and uniqlo. i shop on ssense a lot also and i’ve been recently getting into the realreal. the row, filippa k, lemaire, maryam nassir zadeh, baserange, lauren manoogian, isa boulder, and peng tai are brands i like. marsell and repetto for shoes. interested in trying flore flore

im inspired by phoebe philo’s new line and 90s minimalism, archival prada and helmut lang and jil sander and calvin klein etc. i get a lot of inspo from lily rose depp and zoe kravitz too :)

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The Row

What exactly is The Row? Is it super luxe minimalism?  A way to reference and recreate brands and styles that have long left the current lexicon. Just a way for rich shorties to make a uniform for themselves? 

There’s an elegance to the clothes, and it’s doubly so in the way the garments are styled for collections each season. The muted color palette, the set repertoire of the garments presented, the lengths and shapes fabric is pulled into… looking at The Row, you see something that is committed to itself. It’s doubling down on it’s vision and trying to perfect the technique with which it’s executed. 

My first thoughts whe looking at the clothes and how they’re presented take me to Margiela in the late 90’s early 2000’s and as well as the Hermes years that were being worked on by Martin Margiela.There are other things that you could guess inspired the work… Comme, Yohji, Ann D, Jil… all from that same era of time. There’s also the sentiment that The Row is sort of spiritual successor to the Phoebe Philo years of Celine, and I even like to think of the clothes being from the same cut of cloth as Lemaire, both with a different viewpoint. 

I’m not sure if the distinction between women’s clothes and men’s clothes matter all that much here. What is clear is that the tailoring and how fabric is shaped on the body is something important to them, though the shapes they are going for really trick the eye and obscure how the body should be read. It isn’t just kinda baggy and flowy, but more sculpted. And a very soft sculpting at that. The threads have body without being consipcuously structured. A shirt might flow in a pant, the pants might flow into the show, and jacket may tie it all together and make it feel like a single garment. The layers are fun, and the clothes make the wearer look like a giant, but in an elegant way. (obviously models have a look to them, but I think this still checks out)

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Same fashion anon! I didn't mean to imply that I thought the oversized suiting was bad tailoring or even something I didn't enjoy- I don't think any of the houses walking at PFW would ever send anything down with objectively bad tailoring. What I meant was that there seems to be a significant trend towards larger suiting, especially strong shoulders (you see this in the Saint Laurent collection too- which I also agree was elegant and lovely and really well done. In my personal top 5 for sure. I'm glad to see them returning to their roots after the turn towards a more glam-rock style during the mid 2010s. Did you see their SS this year? I liked it more than FW)

When you see a bunch of collections all showing similar silhouettes, it starts to feel same-y after four or five. That's all I meant.

Dior still feels like a weird fit for Jimin for me. Like you, I'd prefer to see him in a brand that's a little more elegant, a little more androgynous. Sports-inspired just doesn't feel like a good match, but what do I know? Saint Laurent is one for sure, I think he would have killed in those Valentino fits Yoongi was wearing, again I like Lemaire for a more casual feel but I doubt they could afford him. Still, I haven't passed judgement yet. Anything is better than LV after the disaster that was all of their styling in 2021/2022. Patiently waiting to see what comes.

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Thanks for clarifying your comments re tailoring. I see what you mean now about larger suiting and yep, it is more of an aesthetic choice that looks like it's going to stick for a while anyway. I haven't seen the Saint Laurent S/S, but I'll check it out. I didn't really keep up lately and probably wouldn't have done it now if it weren't for Jimin, but it's an opportunity to go back to my interests from years before.

I still don't see why exactly Dior and Jimin are that good of a match when we know Jimin looks absolutely stunning and has this regal feel to it whenever he goes for something really elegant, with an air of mistery around him. A bit untouchable and clearly the highlight everywhere. The Dior suit didn't really achieve that.

But, leaving aside these complaints/personal opinions, at least there's no more LV in sight. I've had it with those clothes and all the red carpet/event looks. I just hated it because it also came after Jungkook was going into a more genderless style of clothing and he was experimenting with his sillhoutte and then it was all gone. I know he is usually the one who experiments the most and is open to change so I can't blaim LV solely for that, but the timing did no good.

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23 and 29

23. favorite piece of clothing: hard to say—there're different answers for "best find," "most worn," "biggest flex" (lol) then there's a whole host of garments associated with beautiful memories that i wear only on a semiregular basis for various reasons. altogether, probably a white halterback tank top from lemaire's collab with uniqlo that i got a few years ago. it was dirt cheap and i didn't think i'd wear it as often as i do (i'd have bought more of them if i'd known) but it makes me feel the most myself of anything in my closet.

29. morning afternoon or night: morning!

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It's weird to say that a high-street fast fashion collaboration is a highlight for a brand, but as a long time customer (since I think their second menswear season) I really loved this Zara x Studio Nicholson collaboration that came out late last year.

As Studio Nicholson has become bigger, with multiple drops a year and sprawling out into more categories I feel like some of the brilliant simplicity and wearability of those earlier collections has been diluted recent collections haven't always felt cohesive. Which is not to say there aren't great clothes, just that they don't always hang together as well as they could.

The first Zara x Studio Nicholson collaboration took this even farther, it was as if given the buying power of reach of Zara they decided to push it as far as it could go. The resulting collection felt messy, overworked, and seemed to flood reselling sites not long after it launched.

By contrast the more recent collaboration feels much more confident: super focused, luxurious and modular. It feels in the best possible way like a the uniform of a fashion buyer in the mid-90s. It has a pair of denim sets (Black, washed blue), some black and grey Italian wool suiting, rich, substantial knitwear and some Japanese tech-sportswear influences sprinkled throughout. There are the usual hints of the Row and Phoebe Philo thats often there in Studio Nicholson but also nods to Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Jil Sander and prime 80s and 90s-era Calvin Klein and Donna Karan.

Having lived with the few pieces I picked up when it launched for a few months now I can also say some of the quality of some pieces (knits and tailoring) compare well with the mainline which is impressive considering the price. I doubt anyone is making any margin on this. There is a whole piece you can get into about the ethics of working with Zara but putting that aside, looking at the short list of successful premium/high street collaborations (Lemaire x Uniqlo, Jil Sander x Uniqlo... that's about it) it's great to see a brand make something good at this level of quality, that's this accessible.

What this actually feels like is something along the lines of what DKNY for Donna Karan or CK for Calvin Klein was doing in the mid 90s when there was a need for high-quality diffusion lines for department stores and boutiques, where the designers would tone down the trend-led pieces so that an average person on a decent income could invest in a nice coat or suit and younger people could get jeans and sportswear. Those lines died off in the early 00's as the department stores and boutiques that supported them started to disappear and online sales made brand dilution a risk but I think this is the spirit of this collection and it's all the better for it.