Lace at Label

IDEEEN ARRIVES

Label will now be carrying IDEEN created by two Japanese natives Atsuko Yanase, and Junko Hirata. With a background in architecture and stints at Helmut Lang and Yigal Azrouel, they have settled in NY which is the home base of the line and will be featuring new works from their well received collection.

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Photo Shoot

Drape Coat, Jump Suit, Mesh Titian Top, Grecian Belt, Octatrench, Flange Shoulder Coat

Brian Lichtenberg New Delivery This Friday

Asymetrical Shoulder Pad Dress arrives this Friday in all its varying colors.

One of a Kind Jewelrey

Label is now carrying the beautiful designs of Kristall Richardson O'Neil who has created this fringe piece which is paired with the Label abstract emblem necklace in solid silver

Label Website Up This Monday

Finally after 15 years Label makes its collection available on line. For the holiday season we have put many of our one offs and reworked pieces also many items not yet delivered to the NY store

Taxi CDC Party

This Friday Party for Taxi CDC and band performance The Children 7-10 wine and orderves.

Annika Olsen The Icelandic designer who works from her Sunset Blvrd store showcases this month her works after touring Europe in their art exhibition. Her hand stitched yellow wool gown is in residence Label along with her line of bags and belts.

Dali Show Extended

The Label Presentation of Salvador Dali" The Art of Consumption" is extended through Christmas showcasing his work in film theater fashion advertising, products design, textiles, book and magazine illustration and projects for architecture. all original work on display until January 15th.

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New Blog Post

WThere's a saying among us that fashion brands don't matter, that what does matter is the quality of the garment itself. ("Quality," of course, being a flexible term—its use ranges from construction to color, fit and texture.) But while that's true, there is a certain point of identity and pride many take in the combinational origins of their apparel and accoutrements. For some, that's in the ability to mix vintage and designer. Others abide by vintage only, with the odd high-street basic like H&M tights. Then there are the masher-ups, who seek value in everything—be it indie, chain, designer, thrift, fast fashion, clothing not "intended" for your gender, self-made/modified, vintage, craft/goth/sex shops and Target—and will usually express this blend all at once in an outfit. Whatever the case, the sources and, more specifically, the medleys thereof that we wear likely put us into one pre-existing fashion breed or another. For all that we say brands don't matter—well, sometimes they kind of do.

Then there's Laura Whitcomb's Label. With its anti-logo stance, the line runs the risk of being pigeonholed into that angsty, counter-corporatocracy, different for the sake of being different category. Most wares made at this level usually turn out looking like poorly produced replications of one another. (Think shirts silk-screened with AK-47s, a concept which at this point has pretty much lost all traces of subversion.) Label, on the other hand, doesn't merely run from—it strives to uphold diversity and promote an energized liberation. Label is a world unto itself; somehow it fuses tradition and future in wholly unquantifiable ways.

A couple of months ago, I made a weekend jaunt down to NYC to hang with my homey Sharon. While waiting for her to get off of work, I hit up all my usual Soho/Nolita haunts and then popped into Label. Cohesion in collections has its place, but at the multifaceted Label, the fragmentary reigned and reigned well. The store housed all kinds of experiments in draping and fabric (loved the celestial prints and medieval velvets!), and there were garments for people of numerous sizes and ages, whether that be in body or in heart. Styles came in mostly one or two of a kind, so I'm guessing it's best to snap something up when one gets the chance. And, speaking of snapping things up, I decided on three pieces on sale: a caped white velvet dress with burnouts, a lavender asymmetrical tunic and a sheer lime dress (not shown). Though I count myself among those who try not to live by the rule of the label, these three designs all matter—very much to me.
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New Arrivals

The Forrest Cape arrives Monday

Brian Lichtenberg New Delivery This Friday

Brian Lichtenberg New Delivery This Friday

Special Events

Saturday November 14 at 2009 Ankh Jewelrey Trunk Show with Special Apperance by Submerged Caravan and The Time Travellers Photograpphs by Jacopo Manfren.