AussieBum has released its new line of underwear for men. From the AussieBum site: “The ‘Spin’ series combines clean shapes with strong bold colours that demand attention and will have many in a ‘spin’ with new fabric fibres, printing innovation and designs engineered for the individual in a brief style.”

2008 Men Sunglasses from Gucci, Barton Perreira, Giorgio Armani, Ermenegildo Zegna, Tom Ford, Juicy Couture, D&G, John Varvatos, Prada.

Shoes! Who can resist a fun pair of sneakers. Since everyone is wearing Converse, we are not going to include it in our selection. Enjoy our collection of cool casual footwear from USD$40+ to $400+. Inject some bright colors and funky patterns into your summer.

Shown: UMBRO by kim jones, Prada, True Religion,PUMA by Alexander Mcqueen, PF Flyers, Gucci, Paul Smith, Dsquared2

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Denis Guidone has been selected as the winner of the international design competition Adamo Eva. From Yanko Design:

His whimsical scribble watch design called “Ora Unica”, meaning One Hour, is a wonderful contrast of chaos and order mixed together. In their words, “The hour and minute hands are represented by a single line drawn on two circular faces, which turn one inside the other. Both faces together resemble a graphical gesture, a doodle that changes as time passes.”

Check out the gallery above to see how the ends of the scribble represent time.

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Yves Saint Laurent, the French fashion prodigy at the House of Dior who redefined women’s haute couture with his own label in the 1960s and influenced a generation of designers, died late yesterday from the effects of brain cancer, at his residence in Paris. He was 71.

During his almost 50-year career, the Algerian-born Saint Laurent liberated women with his pantsuits and simple, yet chic, silhouettes. Known for designs inspired by artists, including Picasso and Mondrian, as well as his creations for French actress Catherine Deneuve in the film “Belle de Jour,” Saint Laurent always saw himself as an advocate for women.

“Fashion isn’t just to decorate women, but to reassure them, give them confidence,” he said when he retired in January 2002, at the age of 65.

Here’s a small gallery of his work. Click on the image below to view.

The son of an insurance company president, Yves Saint Laurent was born in Oran, Algeria. He inherited his fashion sense from his mother. He studied first at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture, but felt frustrated by the syllabus so left after a few months. Saint Laurent left home at the age of 17 to work for the French designer Christian Dior. Following Dior’s death in 1957, Yves, at the age of 21, was put in charge of the effort of saving the Dior house from financial ruin.

Shortly after this success, he was conscripted to serve in the French Army during the Algerian War of Independence. After 20 days, the stress of being hazed by fellow soldiers led the fragile Saint Laurent to be institutionalized in a Frenchmental hospital, where he underwent psychiatric treatment, including electroshock therapy, for a nervous breakdown.

In 1962, in the wake of his nervous breakdown, Saint Laurent was released from Dior and started his own label, YSL, financed by his partner, Pierre Bergé. The couple split romantically in 1976 but remained business partners. During the 1960s and 1970s, the firm popularized fashion trends such as the beatnik look, safari jackets for men and women, tight pants and tall, thigh-high boots, including the creation of arguably the most famous classic tuxedo suit for women in 1966, Le Smoking suit. He also started mainstreaming the idea of wearing silhouettes from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. He was the first, in 1966, to popularize ready-to-wear in an attempt to democratize fashion, with Rive Gauche and the boutique of the same name. He was also the first designer to use black models in his runway shows.

Among his muses were Loulou de la Falaise, the daughter of a French marquis and an Anglo-Irish fashion model; Betty Catroux, the half-Brazilian daughter of an American diplomat and wife of a French decorator; Talitha Pol-Getty, who died of a drug overdose in 1971; Catherine Deneuve, the iconic French actress; and the Guinean-born Senegalese supermodel Katoucha Niane, the daughter of writer Djibril Tamsir Niane. Ambassador to the couturier during the late 1970s and early 80s was London socialite millionairess Diane Boulting-Casserley Vandelli, making the brand even more popular amongst the European jet-set and upper classes.

In 1983, he became the first living fashion designer to be honored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 2001, he was awarded the rank of Commander of the Légion d’Honneur by French president Jacques Chirac.

Saint Laurent retired in 2002 and became increasingly reclusive. From then until his death he spent much of his time at his house.

He also created a foundation with Pierre Bergé in Paris to trace the history of the house of YSL, complete with 15,000 objects and 5,000 pieces of clothing.

source: Bloomberg, WIKI

2008 men’s swimwear collection from $20+ to $300+. Click on the image above to see the photo gallery (15 photos).

Di Grisogono Meccanica DG

Think LCD / LED is too cheap for you? Then you will be amazed at this Limited Edition deGrisogono Watch. Available in four styles—red and gold, titanium and gold, titanium and platinum, and titanium and rubber—the Meccanica DG is waterproof to 100 feet and, of course, is heinously expensive. Get your black american express card ready and sign USD $199,977 away.

Looking at this limited-edition Di Grisogono Meccanica DG, you probably think it’s a hybrid mechanical-digital watch. Well, you’re totally WRONG. Despite its appearance, the Meccanica DG is completely analog, comprising of 651 pieces and absolutely no digital parts or LEDs whatsoever.

Just 177 of these amazing timepieces are going to be made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Geneva-based horloger. Billed as the most complicated digital-analog timepiece in the world, the digital display is actually mechanical, with rolling tubes forming the digital segments. This is how it works, according to the press release.

The mechanically operated digital display of the second timezone shows tens of hours, single hours, tens of minutes and single minutes, all displayed by mobile microsegments driven by an assemblage of 23 cams connected to a set of gears and a triggering and synchronization system. The time information is displayed by an array of 23 horizontally and vertically positioned microsegments. Vertical segments are 9 mm high and weigh at most 25 milligrams while the horizontal segments measure 2.90 mm in length and weigh only 10 milligrams. The segments have four faces: two opposing visible faces fitted with colored strips and two opposing unmarked faces. Time changes are effected by 90° rotations of the required segment or segments. Involving one to twelve segments, time changes are lightning fast.

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While still simply a design, designer Nuno Oliveira has created a beautiful Gucci LED watch, that can double as a bracelet. 

Source: YankoDesign

Here’s the collection of runway shows for this Fall/Winter.

D&G

Yves Saint Laurent Men

D Squared² (with interview)

Burberry (with interview)

Hermès (with interview)

Louis Vuitton (with interview)

John Galliano (with interview)

Prada

Vivienne Westwood

Versace

Alexander Mcqueen

Gucci

Dior Homme

Yohji Yamamoto

Kenzo

Click On the image above to see the gallery (10 designers)

Yes, it’s not fall yet! But it’s always nice to prepare yourself for the upcoming trends.

D&G went mad for plaid while dsquared2 mixed in a little bit of the pattern to jazz up the otherwise more tame collection. If you follow the lead of D&G, Etro, Dsquared… you can see that as long as the colors still play nice together, you can layer nearly anything. Mixing pattern on pattern can be done without your photo ending up splatterd on the ‘worst dressed list’.

Runway video collections to be posted in a couple days.