MrP: Mr Porter launches its first in-house line

A new brand designed and created by MR PORTER team launches today. Mr P consists of a range of stylish but minimal lines; affordable, but made to the highest standards.

There will be five limited-edition capsule collections a year with the first one launching on the 7th of November with a complete proposal of outfits and outerwear.
 

MrP is inspired by 20th century British painter Lucian Freud's simple, artesian aesthetic.
We have to admit that we loved every single piece of the collection, even though,
today we share with you some of our favourites.

Shop the collection on www.mrporter.com

Dan Colen: Sweet Liberty exhibition in London

04 OCT 2017 – 21 JAN 2018

Photography: Karl Slater
 

Newport Street Gallery, London presents an exhibition of work by American artist Dan Colen (b.1979). Colen’s first major London solo show spans over fifteen years and features new works, including large-scale installations.

Colen emerged onto the New York art scene in the early 2000s alongside artists such as Dash Snow and Ryan McGinley. Brilliantly witty, shocking, poignant and nihilistic, his art presents a portrait of contemporary America and is, in part, an investigation into the act of producing and looking at art.
 

Alongside significant early works such as Me, Jesus and the Children (2001–2003) – a photorealist painting of the artist’s chest, overlaid with cartoon cherubs and floating speech bubbles – the exhibition features paintings from Colen’s long-running ‘Gum’ and ‘Trash’ series. In the ‘Gum’ paintings, spots of brightly coloured chewing gum – usually only seen in the mouths of others or stuck to the soles of shoes – are layered onto the canvas as paint.
The ‘Trash’ works incorporate rubbish and discarded ephemera, the kind you would often encounter piled up in the street. Referencing Arte Povera, Abstract Expressionism and action painting, the trash is mixed with paint and used as an unwieldy brush to form shapes based on Raphael’s exalted Madonna and Child paintings. With their irreverent borrowing from art history and disruptive combination of abstraction and figuration, they are paintings about painting, paintings about belief.

The exhibition features four installations, in which Colen continues to appropriate and subvert imagery from the globalised mass media and American subcultures. In these installations, Colen’s examinations of masculinity and individuality are brought to the fore. The bloated, spent machismo of the American Dream is laid bare to reveal a deep-seated existential unease.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Colen states: “This show is the first time I’ve been able to present the full range of my work and the wide-ranging ideas, crafts, materials, technologies and processes that I engage with. The earliest piece in the exhibition was begun eleven days before 9/11 and the exhibition follows my intuitive trajectory over the last fifteen years, which has allowed me to consider the transforming power of art when it’s experienced in different moments and contexts. It also creates a perfect space for the viewer to settle in on my interests, which are sure but can be meaningless, often formless, striving for the inexplicable; which can be most felt in the negative spaces, the cracks, the holes and barely perceptible lines that are always there connecting all seemingly disparate things.”

Source: http://www.newportstreetgallery.com

DIOR HOMME SS 2018: The iconic tailored suit

Kris Van Assche amazed the fashion world with the SS18 show for DIOR HOMME and we note what you must remember for the next season. The Belgian designer and creative director of the brand, celebrated 10 years in DIOR HOMME and he paid tribute to the iconic tailored suit.

“Tailoring will never be over, but I’ve been here for 10 years and it made me think about the DNA of the brand, the black suit and the white shirt” noted the creative director.

He combined really classic suit lines with trainers, wide-legged trousers or shorts and he marked to the new generation the DNA of Dior. Kris Van Assche also styled the collection with varsity inspired bomber jackets and colourful tops and shirts, showing once again that the sport-luxe trend is still on the top of the fashion world list.

Must Have Fragrance this winter: NOIR Anthracite

World-renowned designer Tom Ford has created a true luxury brand for the 21st Century. 
He is also well known for turning out fragrances that are as sleek as his tailoring. 
The house of Tom Ford has the ability to create very special, original scents that are depraved by the traditions of mainstream fragrances.
Tom ford introduces the new Noir fragrance, Noir Anthracite.
The latest icon of seduction, Tom Ford Noir Anthracite reflects the light in the dark. 
It's deeply, softly dark, without so much of the apparently intentional style of many of the brand’s other releases.

The brand-new Tom Ford Anthracite has notes of ground citrus blended with a masculine oak moss base.
A mixture of bergamot sandalwood and ginger make for a statement scent. I believe it makes the perfect scent for fall.

Words by Nicholas Papantoniou [ Fashionmegawatts ]