Ask: Fabrice Penot- perfumer/sorcerer- Le labo

my favorite _____ is:
-book: “the trouble of being born” by cioran… which impacted my life as much as “finding nemo” did for zoe, my daughter, when she discovered it last week.
-album: bach, goldberg variations ( glenn gould)
-city: man, NEW YORK CITY… in 1985. at least my idea of it.
-place: my head on jennifer’s belly
-film: once upon a time in america…
-restaurant: real food daily, santa monica…
-hero: in history? diogenes. right now? the iranian people
-smell: pure birchwood… smells like my grandfather’s garage
-artist: banksy… come on, beyond the hype around him, this guy is fucking brilliant
-hotel: ACE hotel in nyc
-peculiarity: ADD. i can’t concentrate more than 6 seconds on 1 single subject at a time… sorry, what was the question again?
-hobby: doing nothing…
-indulgence: spending more time focusing on my hobby
-moment in history: zoe’s birth! ( my daughter)
-prized possession: my super 8 camera
-vacation: big sur
-drink: coconnut water
-way to go: i want to die loved, broke, anosmic, in free fall, with a smile on my face…

cos magazine



i’m generally not a huge fan of h&m and co but i have to admit that the magazine they did for their high hand brand (cos, not available in the US yet) is very nice, there is a huge influence from fantastic man but whatever, it’s pretty, and on top of that you can download it hi-res! by pp’

not so hot: The sartorialist


the sartorialist was a blog we all liked. many of our friends have been featured on it and it was a good effort on collecting street styles in the footsteps of time-out, and other numerous publications before it. what set it apart was that people got to comment, positively and negatively. but have you ever noticed that most, if not all, of the recent comments posted on the blog are love letters filled with positive feed back? such as “H.O.T”, “I love this guy he’s so chic”, “oh my god, her shirt is to die for, I want it”, “what a cool looking dude” and so on… I mean who’s looking at this blog anymore? if not scott shuman and his pals then a bunch of admirers from milwaukee? normal people have opinions, good and bad. I personally have commented in the past on the blog and usually a mix of positive and negative. I never checked back to see but I started noticing that whenever i submitted the slightest of negative comments, it magically disappeared in to the ether, never to be posted! at first i thought that scott schuman, the 3 foot tall founder of sartorialist, may have been too busy tying his bow tie to see the submission but upon my return I noticed many other positive posts had been blessed by the newly fascist regime. we hope democracy can be restored to the fashion world and if not, may we suggest changing the name from the sartorialist to the more-appropriate “sorryasslist” until you post our latest submission regarding your prada post, we’re positive you can dig it up under tomorrow started. we will be happy to withdraw our accusations at that point. Radio Rebelde. by fc

Aquascutum by christopher sturman


nice visuals for the english trench-coat manufacturer and now fashion house aquascutum. the plan is to give you a sense of its manufacturing process and thus its quality, and to be honest they are rather well made but awhile ago i looked into them and I could not find a single design i would care to wear. nice pictures now its time to hire a good designer. by dd