Category Archive: Fashion

Buck Mason: Back to the Basics

Digitally Native American staple brand, Buck Mason has gone against the grain to redefine men’s fashion. With quality classics like tees, jeans, and sweaters, men can achieve that clean, elevated look without the hassle.

Founded by two midwesterners Sasha Koehn and Erik Allen created the brand in 2013, in their garage in Los Angeles. The duo recognized a need for American manufactured clothing brands that make shopping for men easy. 

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Kenneth Ize: The Fabrics That Define Us

The unique fabric known as Aso Oke, a hand-woven cloth created by the Yoruba people of West Africa, is slowly making a comeback in the fashion industry. One designer, Kenneth Ize is channeling his African heritage and curating luxury garments utilizing this intricate fabric to convey the soul put into each piece of his collections. Ize is the emerging designer pioneering this movement making a splash in the industry with a name worth remembering.

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Olivier Theyskens: It’s All in the Details

It’s hard to contain a brilliant mind to the simplicity of a corporation. To tell a free spirit that they must abide by certain, set rules is like telling a dog not to wag its tail—nearly impossible. This might be one of the main reasons why Olivier Theyskens isn’t the big name that his talent is deserving of. Since Theyskens was a child, he has made up his own mind about what he was going to do and he would not allow anyone to change it.

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Benjamin Kickz: Sneaker Don

What makes an entrepreneur successful? A bachelor's degree? Financial support from investors? Being over the age of 16? While all of these qualities do have their benefits, none are required to make a beginning or significant lunge into any field of business. Sometimes the only initial trait for growth that you need is passion. 

Benjamin Kickz (Kapelushnik), known as the “Sneaker Don” is a sneaker resale entrepreneur who began his career at 16 years old. Benjamin Kickz loves sneakers,  particularly the really expensive and exclusive sneakers his father classifies as “dumb.”

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Cora Groppo: Fit Is Everything

We've all been there – going to store after store, trying on a pair of jeans, a blazer, a skirt, only to leave the store in tears because nothing fits. No matter how many sizes bigger or smaller you go, something's still wrong. The pants legs are too long. The sleeves are too short. The buttons won't button. If only designers could figure that out and make clothes that fit...

That's actually what Cora Groppo does.

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Daniel Del Core: Fashion by Nature

Beauty is not static. That is the sentiment held by women’s fashion designer, Daniel Del Core, whose clothing is known for its mutant combination of fashion and nature. He creates his designs out of inspiration from the moss, molds, fungi, mushrooms, and all of earth’s forever-growing entities that we find around us and right under our feet when we step outside.

Del Core is a 33-year-old fashion designer. He was born in Germany and is currently based in Milan, Italy. At 16-years-old, he left Germany to study ceramics, sculpture, and art in Italy, but later decided to study visual arts, fashion, and design at the design school, Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan. There, he worked as an intern for some of the world’s most famous fashion brands like Dolce and Gabbana and Versace. His studies eventually led him to become the VIP designer of Gucci under the company’s creative designer, Alessandro Michele. Del Core has had the opportunity to dress celebrities like Lana Del Rey and Bjork while at Gucci.

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