Saturday, June 28, 2008

Paris street fashion - the DIY look

Spotted walking along rue Marbeuf, please meet Julien Garouia - a 25 year old Clothes and Accessories designer & maker for Upperground (which specialize in hand-made unique accessory pieces) and Il Cascinetto (which specialize in belts, shoes, bags and hats - mainly of ostrich skin) and distributed by Intuitive (www.intuitive.it)

Julien is wearing:

A feather he found on the street belonging to a pigeon
Bandanna he cut out from an old top collar
Sunglasses he found at a market in Berlin
A second hand sweatshirt
Jeans from Mabitex
Crocodile belt from Upperground
His boots were tailor made for him by an Italian shoe maker...
Crocodile wrist bands from Upperground
Necklace which he designed and created for Intuitive and Upperground consisting of bones he found lying on the ground in Africa: such as a warthog tusk, fish bones, coral and seeds...
Bag he designed for Il Cascinetto. Bag is ostrich skin which is hand dyed with natural pigments. The top and bottom of the bag is made of Bull skin...

Friday, June 20, 2008

Paris street fashion - the branded look

Spotted chilling on his bike at the Marais in Paris please meet Boris

Boris is wearing:
Shirt from Ben Sherman
Jacket from Bershka
Jeans from April 77
Shoes from Underground
Watch from Zadig & Voltaire
Smoking a Marlboro Light
Drinking a Coke Light
Driving a Dax Motorbike

My favorite accessory has got to be his Dax motorbike...and the random dog!