Season Highs
SSENSE
Oct 26 2019
Helmut Lang, Stella McCartney, Vetements, and More
In a suburban landscape, our pick of Fall's strongest editorial pieces. Featuring bold fabrications and eclectic shapes from Helmut Lang, Vetements, Stella McCartney, Acne Studios, Noir Kei Ninomiya, and Junya Watanabe.
Loewe Reborn Jonathan Anderson Curates a New Beginning As a child, Jonathan Anderson’s parents used to bring him on summer holidays to Ibiza. “I’d sit on Agua Blanca beach and see a culture that was so forward and free,” recalls Anderson nearly twenty years later. “Those trips cultivated a lot of my fashion references.” Which is why, when he was asked to take the reins at Loewe, the creative director didn’t hesitate to relocate the brand’s imagery to the idyllic, sun-kissed climes of his childhood retreat, using a seminal 1997 Vogue Italia image by Steven Meisel of the models Maggie Rizer and Amber Valletta on a beach in his initial proposal. 
Testing the Optics of the New SSENSE × SUPER Glasses We Collaborate with the Italian-Made Brand on Two Exclusive Fall/Winter 2017 Styles People have been proverbially since the beginning of time. Why else was humanity instantly seduced by the coverage of tinted lenses when the first mass-produced sunglass hit the market in 1929? Protection from the sun aside, it’s the tint that carries much of the allure of eyewear, conveniently concealing side-eye at all times. 