NY finally got their Monocle shop earlier this week in the West Village. The store features a constantly evolving collection of fashion and lifestyle products as well as the new design collaborations from Oliver Spencer, the Tomorrowland x Monocle travel suit series, and the Ettinger card case. Covering just 188 sq ft, the store, located in a red brick landmark building, features Monocle magazine’s distinctive black-and-white design format, created by Monocle’s team of designers in London. The shop also has wooden floors, a slatted oak screen built by local artist and carpenter Kenon Perry, Vitsoe shelving, and a fully retractable glass store front.

535 Hudson Street (at Charles Street), NYC

In 1965, a Japanese magazine publisher sent photographer Teruyoshi Hayashida to Ivy League schools in the United States where he took a series of candid campus photographs that were later assembled into Take Ivy, a now-iconic ethnography that will be released in English for the first time by PowerHouse Books this week.  One of the most sought-after research and inspiration books, especially in the prep and Americana movements in contemporary menswear, Take Ivy has influenced designers including Ralph Lauren, Michael Bastian, and J. Crew’s Frank Muytjens. Racked caught up with Ed Heald, a 1968 Dartmouth grad whose photograph appears twice in the book—on pages 54 and 70—to get the scoop from the other side of Hayashida’s camera. Heald, a freshman at the time the photo was taken, came to Dartmouth from Hudson, Ohio. His father, grandfather, and uncle all graduated from Dartmouth. Read the interview after the jump.  (Racked)

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Pop art icon Takashi Murakami guest creative directed the September issue of Pop magazine (available September 1) which features pop music queen Britney Spears on the cover. The issue is nothing short of a popstravaganza. Be sure to pick up a copy.

After over 300 issues, British fashion lifestyle magazine i-D is celebrating it’s30th anniversary this August. To celebrate, past, present and future stars have come together for the Pre-Fall, Fall and Winter issues of THEN, NOW and NEXT. i-D, founded by former vogue art director Terry Jones, has always been known for identifying young fresh talent while working with incredibly talented individuals in the industry. It is no surprise that almost 200 superstars including Vivienne Westwood, The XX, Phoebe Philo, Sir Paul Smith, Lara Stone and Gareth Pugh came together for a three week long celebratory photo shoot in the Somerset House. Shot entirely in black and white this will be a collectors issue of the future and an important marker in time. Also look out for Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Lady Gaga who will be beautifying the covers of THEN, NOW and NEXT. Congratulations to the winking smiley (i-D) for being great enough to make it through the past and prepare us for the future of our industry.

“30 years – whoosh, more than an instant in i-D’s lifeline – it’s a generation. Three decades to be celebrated and contained in this special issue. The whole issue was created by Nick Knight 200 portraits that SHOWstudio made at the close of 2009 in Somerset House – once the home of British passports, now the central location for British Fashion Week. Nick’s celebration of identity was also a commemorative project inspired by the 5th birthday issue of i-D, where 100 portraits were featured in The Grown Up Issue. 25 years on, the gallery selection grew to 200. Happy birthday!” Terry Jones, Editor-in-Chief, i-D

THEN: Pre-Fall on Sale 12 August / NOW: Fall on Sale 23 September  / NEXT: Winter on Sale 11 November

(Santho Goonewardene)

Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Maine is home to Rogues Gallery, the line that is mostly known for their garment dyed, recycled tees so it is no surprise that the inspiration for Rogues Gallery “always comes from the sea”. Alex Carlton, founder of Rogues Gallery, got his start designing and merchandising for places such as Ralph Lauren and Abercrombie and after a whirlwind of success with his line of vintage tees he expanded to making bags, jewelry, belts, shoes and even floor coverings. Old, well-worn white tees that are hand sorted, dyed and repaired, bags that are hand made using vintage sail cloth and jewelry that looks like it came from another century have made their way into boutiques all over the world. We caught up with them to check out the ss11 line and found a colorful booth that looks like it’s filled with all sorts of treasures. Check out the line that could be your catch any day.(Santho Goonewardene)

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The Iowa-born designer Tim Hamilton is not one to shy away from his roots. “My vision comes from where I grew up and the experiences I’ve had,” Hamilton says. Nevertheless, the all-American boy-makes-good clichés don’t quite ring true. Hamilton may have Midwestern roots and a C.V. that includes stints at Ralph Lauren and J. Crew, but his sympathies are more British punk than Ivy League preppy — it’s not hard to imagine Joe Strummer, circa 1980, suiting up in one of Hamilton’s rapier-thin blazers. (His women’s line, which he introduced last fall, is equally sharp.) And his references tend to be peppered with black humor. His spring 2011 men’s collection, which was scheduled to be staged during the recent men’s shows in Paris but was canceled at the last minute due to budgetary constraints, was inspired by the Belgian artist Michaël Borremans’s somber portraits of workers in their uniforms. “The surfaces were very chic and painterly,” Hamilton explains. “But they all looked depressed — that’s where the dark part comes in.” The Moment caught up with Hamilton to talk about his love of British youth culture and why the Corn Belt is more avant-garde than you might think. (The Moment)

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Fashionista reports that Purple’s Olivier Zahm is working on the first biographical book about Carine Roitfeld, set to be published by Rizzoli in the fall of 2011. With 2 of today’s most influential fashion editors collaborating on a project, we’re sure the book is going to be a must-have in every fashion library.

After Fashion Director Anne Christensen of The New York Times’ T magazine heard she was a front-runner for the advertising-heavy fashion supplement’s Editor-in-Chief position, management instead picked Vogue Editor Sally Singer for the job. The New York Daily News reported today that Singer has decided to replace Christensen with one of her own hires, and the decision has left some Times insiders angry over the off-handed way that Christensen was treated throughout the whole T saga. “They put her up for the job. They pushed her as their candidate, and then they hung her out to dry,” says one incensed source. “If you’re genuinely considering someone as a candidate, you must value that person. And if you value her, then why would you devalue her so quickly?” In a statement, Times executive editor Bill Keller said: “We have great admiration for Anne and the creative work she has contributed to the T franchise. Having appointed a new chief editor, it’s only natural that we would be assembling a team – some T veterans, some new recruits – to work alongside her.” A Times spokeswoman declined to disclose Singer’s new hire. (Stylesight)

Longtime Vogue publisher and Condé Nast senior vice-president Tom Florio will be leaving the magazine he’s helmed (alongside Anna Wintour) for eight years. A Condé vet since the eighties, Florio has spent most of his life building the brands of Vogue, Men’s Vogue, Teen Vogue, and lately, Bon Appétit and Condé Nast Traveler. “I want to be CEO of my own company,” he told the Journal. “We already have a really good CEO [in Chuck Townsend].” He has yet to announce where he’ll go, but he has the credentials. In his years at Vogue, the magazine topped 3,200 ad pages and expanded vastly in the digital world. Florio also, at various times, served as publisher for Condé Nast Traveler, The New Yorker, and GQ. (NYmag)

Update: Ad Age reports that Condé won’t replace Florio, and that the publishers under him will report directly to Townsend going forward.
Vogue Publisher Florio Leaving Conde Nast

It’s Bloomsday today, the annual day of celebration of James Joyce and all things literary. In the spirit of the day, Esquire examines the personal style of 5 literary icons..

WALT WHITMAN

Why: Brooklynite who rocked a beard that would put to shame any of his modern-day descendants in Williamsburg. Remains unquestioned, undisputed, unchallenged master of the hat: Dented, flipped, or floppy, Whitman’s lids are still more identifiable than any personality this side of Johnny Depp. Throw in stick, pipe, and preservation of Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park as public space, and he’s miles ahead of your locavore, artisanal, atavistic, speakeasy butcher/bartender hipster.

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