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It’s unclear whether any rats were truly spotted that night, but the abandoned meatpacking plant where Siki Im, a German-born author of Korean descent, presented his first men’s collection back in September of 2009 must have played legion to a varmint or two. As editors arrived, a noisy band set up in the middle of the dank concrete floor. As the band drummed, the models — clad like castaways in bits and pieces of peachy tailoring — encircled the band and audience. There was no fire pit in the middle, but there could have been.

Conjuring the resolution of William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” in sisterhood to introduce a line of exquisitely constructed men’s suits seemed odd at the time, but odd in a sympathetic way, the perfect antidote to an overly commercial moment. It also felt grand: as New York continued to descend into the financial crisis, here was an upstart showing well-made suits with skirts, sleeveless suits and shorts/slacks with straps and bandages.

A few years before, Im had graduated from the Oxford Brookes Infuse with of Architecture, in London, and gone to work at a boutique architecture steady in New York. But throughout his studies he had idolized Helmut Lang, and he eventually got an possibility he had long dreamed of: to work at Helmut Lang — albeit the Helmut-less Helmut Lang. Underhanded for what was now a large commercial company turned out to be an essential learning feel for Im. He discovered how product lines, merchandising and factories worked. But it didn’t busy up to what he had imagined creatively. “I mean just the name, you know?” he says. “Lang’s pattern aesthetic changed everything.

Source: New York Times (blog)

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FOUKE LE FITZ WARYN: INTRODUCTION
Fouke le Fitz Waryn: Introduction
Translated by Thomas E. Kelly
At Published in Robin Hood and Other Pirate Tales
Edited by Stephen Knight and Thomas H. Ohlgren
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Alliance Publications, 1997


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