Posts tagged with 'Belgium':

Riding off the overwhelming success of their spring/summer '08 collaboration, Eastpak and Raf Simons are back in cahoots with a sleek stunner in time for end of the year festivities. Putting his understated yet chic aesthetic to the ruff and tough duffle bag, the newest incarnation from Eastpak / Raf Simons' autumn/winter '08-'09 collection is a quilted nylon sac.  read more »

For self-proclaimed style-buffs and hardcore fans of Raf Simons, the following news couldn't be any sweeter: the world's first and only Raf Simons flagships opened in Tokyo's Aoyama district last month, followed by an Osaka counterpart in Umeda on Oct 1.
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If Patagonia and North Face just won't cut it for your next cold weather destination, Belgian company Chauncey will chicly warm you up. This Brussels-based menswear label has the aesthetically minded globetrotter covered with a collection that spins some mighty good yarn. Nathalie Bouhana (who designed knitwear for menswear collections at Hermès, Salvatore Ferragamo, Purdey and Dunhill) and photographer David Sidka craft timeless pieces designed for frigid climates.
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Iconoclastic Austrian designer Carol Christian Poell is at it again. Well, almost. This designer's designer has minded the requests of his retail supporters, a rarified group that includes L'Eclaireur in Paris and Maxfield in Los Angeles, and has reintroduced a womenswear collection that is not exactly a collection per se, but rather an edit of his highly-coveted menswear, reconfigured for a growing coterie of women.
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