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4 May

Saint Laurent’s Recent Jewelry, Aspesi Does Eyewear, Saks’ Mental Mission

Saint Laurent’s Recent Jewelry, Aspesi Does Eyewear, Saks’ Mental Mission
GOING FOR GOLD: Saint Laurent is the most recent European brand to expand into the fizzy marketplace for tremendous jewelry. Its first collection, unveiled this week on the French brand’s online store, social media channels and in select flagships, includes takes on the home’s Cassandre and Le Maillon motifs. The Cassandre is the famous vertical YSL logo, which has appeared as shoe heels and handbag hardware, while the Maillon depicts oversized links of a sequence for a touch of tough glamour. (“Maillon” is the French word for links.) Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello, who has made statement jewelry a key feature of his trenchant runway fashion statements, employed 18-karat gold, diamonds and other precious materials to create a spread of bracelets,...
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4 May

Aspesi Dips Into Eyewear With Capsule

Aspesi Dips Into Eyewear With Capsule
THIRD EYE: Aspesi is dipping its toes into eyewear, embracing the category via a partnership with area of interest Italian brand Retrosuperfuture. In combining each brands’ quintessentially Milanese roots, the capsule comprises two sunglass styles and a jacket. Retrosuperfuture’s signature Milano sunglasses, inspired by the sleek frames of the Fifties, have been rendered in a black acetate frame with matching black lenses and a silver frame and mirror lenses versions. They each include a unusual touch, a 3rd eye-shaped enamel within the eyewear’s internal bridge. Similarly, the cobranded overshirt, inspired by Aspesi’s Mod. 13 padded jacket, has been reinvented for the collaboration, rendered in a double faced nylon version crafted from a light-weight Japanese technical fabric on one side and from olive green...
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