Project Show: All Together Now

With ENK and MRket menswear shows kicking off this Sunday, the boys' club interaction at Project last week is still fresh on show goers minds, perhaps best exemplified by Orlebar Brown collaborator and internet phenomenon Nick Wooster sitting down for a shave and a haircut at The Blind Barber’s booth during Tuesday’s afternoon activities. 

Live blogging transpired at a group table in front, while martinis were shaken and probably also stirred at the Tanteo tequila bar in back. Project was full of real essentials for real guy shoppers. Made by Project capitalized on that with “The Essentials Kit,” the pop up concept of hand crafted artisanal brands featuring tailored stitching by Martin Greenfield, jacket re-proofing at Barbour’s waxing station, homebrew beer making by Bitter and Esters, cobbler-style hand sewing at Oak Street Bootmakers, onsite blocking by LES milliner Victor Osborne, garment dyeing at Metsa, and fragrance tailoring at D.S. & Durga.

 

Do You Think I Have a Men's Shoes Fetish?

 The other day I finally met Mordechai Rubenstein - aka MisterMort (written up here by the stunningly acute A Continous Lean). 

The menswear-centric blogger (Mordechai, not ACL) snapped me before the Andrew Buckler show in the meatpacking area, which was a natural for his blog, since I was wearing a black suit, white shirt, vintage man's black-and-white diagonal stripe tie and these chunkyfunky vintage men's military oxfords.

 

 He asked me if they were Church's and I was mortified (seriously, no pun intended) to realize I did not know who made the vintage finds with which I had festooned my feet.

I am happy to announce -- military drum roll, please -- that they are labeled from the Craddock-Terry Inc. shoe company, and dated November, 1995.  I found out the company was established in 1888, holding a historic heritage handle on the shoe industry after manufacturing for the military in WWII. The old factory in Lynchburg, VA. is now a boutique hotel with views of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The tie, labeled LeRoux Men's Wear, Magnolia Village, Seattle, Washington, is apparently my husband's from Leroux Fine Apparel, a nearly 65-year old men's and women's boutique that kicked off as a men's haberdashery. Check out the fab embroidered unicorn emblem on the tie.

 

Nick Wooster, my new fav fashion hero, lamented the fact that we both wore jackets on what turned out to be one of the hottest days of Fashion Week. What were we thinking?!

Next (cooler) time, I'll top the whole thing off with my bowler!