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We are getting VERY excited for tomorrow, where the men get to take over at London Fashion Week. Hosted by Somerset House, London Fashion Week now features a whole day dedicated to mens' fashion with Topman playing a major part in proceedings. To kick things off with a bang, we've enlisted the help of super menswear blogger Steve Salter from Style Salvage. He'll be Twittering, blogging and on Facebook for the duration of the day giving you up to the minute news on the goings on at the shows and behind the scenes. We asked Steve what he was looking forward to tomorrow...
"Tomorrow is sure to be a long, hectic but ultimately amazing day and I'm so pleased that the bulk of it has moved to Somerset House. The schedule demonstrates that menswear is finally being taken seriously and I can't wait to take my seat (standing ticket) to see it all! Massey and Long kick off proceedings at 10am and what better way to start than with two of the most talented designers around? I really can't wait to see the Fashion East installations transform the East Wing and the Vaults, it is great to see the likes of BLAAK and Casely-Hayford alongside emerging design talent like Mr Hare, Sibling and Jaiden rVa James. The whole day just highlights the volume of menswear talent we have in the capital."
So, make sure you're checking out our blog, the Facebook page, and of course our Twitter too. Until then you can shop the most recent Topman Design and Lens collections by clicking here.
It's almost here...Menswear Day aka 23rd September 2009 will be bringing you the best design talent in menswear fashion. Check out what's happening, which designers are showing and all the backstage info here on Topman.com.
We've managed to squeeze ourselves onto the guestlist so we can bring you all the latest news, images, video and more. Make sure you are following the Official Topman Twitter for live updates from the shows themselves.
Follow the official Twitter feed here and get involved...let us know what you think of each of the designer collections.
Topman have officially now launched the amazing new floor at their flagship London store on Oxford Street. With additions to the store including a Sharps barber shop, an EAT cafe, a brand new stylist area and a wealth of new brands, Topman officially has MORE. We give you a whistle stop tour in pictures below...
What do you think of the new store? Have you been yet? More importantly did you get a winning key card from the gents outside the store? Thoughts below...
Lucky students can now be part of something clever happening at Topman. Sign up to In Genius now to gain access to exclusive news, competitions and offers. Best of all, we'll even offer you 15% OFF all purchases until 18th October 2009 in store or online at Topman.com. After that, it's back to your usual great saving of 10% off all year round so be quick.
Thomas, Branco, Deck and Chris, otherwise known as Phoenix, are our first French controllers hailing from Versailles, a suburb of Paris famous for its impressive palace. What the Kings of France would have thought of Phoenix’s unmistakable brand of dance-rock we’ll never know but they’re no strangers to French royalty of another kind: the band actually got their break as a backing band for Air and they also count Daft Punk, Etienne de Crecy and Cassius ‘et al’ amongst their close friends.
We’ll have more on all that later in the month but we can reveal this snippet from Chris now, “we have a friendly sense of competition with Air when we are both working on new albums, sometimes we finish music at the same time and we get together to listen and see whose album is best, then have a dinner and some wine and we’re friends again”
That all sounds very civilised to us, but the sense of brotherly love within the band and with their friends isn’t all coincidence. Like the Black Lips last month there are genuine brothers in Phoenix (Branco and Chris) but they’ve been playing together for so long they may as well all be siblings. The band started in the early 90s when they were just 13 and not only does this familiarity help them make beautiful music together but also affects the way they discover music new and old: a lot of the music you’re going to hear about in the next month comes filtered through the minds of four people thinking together as one, at times it borders on spooky.
They officially became Phoenix in 1996 but didn’t release their debut album, ‘United’ until 2000. It’s here that you’ll find what’s arguably their best-loved single here in the UK, ‘If I Ever Feel Better’, a euphoric slice of feel good electro-rock that hit these shores like a breath of fresh air when Brit pop had gone stale. Chris from the band is quick to point out that although the song was widely received as a happy-go-lucky kind of track there was something darker at work in there. “On ‘If I Ever Feel Better’ everyone saw it as a party track but we always found that funny because the lyrics are very sad, like ‘no one knows me and I’m lonely,’” he explains.
Unexpected contrasts are looking like a bit of a theme; musically Phoenix have given us a huge range of stuff to shine a light on , from the bubblegum R&B of T-Pain to a series of keyboard music based on the twelve apostles its all to come here on CTRL throughout September.
Fast forward nine years from their debut and the group have enjoyed worldwide success with three more albums, the most recent being, ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’ produced by their old mate Philippe Zdar from Cassius. We have signed copies, gig tickets and other good stuff coming up as prizes later this month, so add us as a friend if you haven’t already to be in with a chance of winning those and check back later this week for a whole load of those new music recommendations.
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