Monica says true love waits.

The Limey (1999)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Terrence Stamp, Peter Fonda

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T Magazine, the New York Times’ style title that is also sometimes confusingly called The Moment, published an online editorial yesterday called Common Thugs.  Ostensibly tied to the ludicrous and highly-publicized “Stop the Sag” campaign, the photos addressed the resurgence of baggy clothes among high-end menswear designers, referencing early 90′s hip-hop and classic streetwear shapes.  Really, it takes clothes like this to show much skinny jeans and cropped suits have saturated the market in recent years — so much so that these saggy shapes in streetwear really look like a throwback.  More photos from the shoot below.  For credit information, visit T Magazine.

Bonus points for the girl at the top right at 1:21.

Seeing as the Junya Watanabe show in Paris this season took place on June 25, this post is indeed pretty late.  But, frankly, I had other shit to do in the interim, like appearing in street style videos and you know, going to work.  So I’m going to adhere to the golden adage of “better late than never” with this post, especially because it’s a collection that I enjoyed so much.  I’ve never really been moved by Junya’s clothes before, and admittedly haven’t been as avid a follower of his as I have been of say, Viktor & Rolf or Paul Smith.  But, there was something so refreshingly direct and concise about this collection.  In a menswear world where Comme des Garcons sends skull print dresses down the runway and Calvin fucking Klein, he of Macy’s underwear department fame, suddenly wants us to wear crop tops, it’s also kind of nice to see a fully-realized, clear-minded collection that’s actually wearable and still interesting.  Junya himself said it, according to Style.com: “They’re clothes I want to wear next summer.” Nothing wrong with that.  If I were skilled at Photoshop, I’d make a collage of Calvin Klein in one of his crop tops and insert it here.  Maybe next season.  More from Junya SS11 (via Style.com photos) after the jump.

Seriously, though, those striped blazers: sign me up.

Also: “I wear blazers all year round.”  REVOLUTIONARY!

And you know what?  I’m into it.

There are several reasons why I admire Rostam Batmanglij.  As the guitarist/keyboardist/producer for Vampire Weekend, he contributed to what was, in my opinion, one of the most self-assured and consistent debut albums I’d heard in a long time.  Like ?uestlove of the Roots, Batmanglij isn’t the lead singer, but his fingerprints are all over the band, one of the reasons Vampire Weekend successfully catapulted past the dreaded, cliched and oft-discussed “sophomore slump.”

As one half of electro-R&B-ish duo Discovery, he cranked out two of my favorite jams from ’09, and proved himself to be a proponent of my second favorite artistic flourish (after spoken word interludes): the mid-song tempo change.

And, as Boys Like Us, he’s put out some killer remixes, including his take on Born Ruffian’s “What to Say,” which I think surpasses the original.  This is without mentioning his following in the footsteps of Pharrell, Santigold and Julian Casablancas with a collaboration for Converse’s Three Artists campaign (see video above).  This guy’s clearly on a creative roll.  So much so, that despite the fact that every journalist will ask him about it in every interview he does in the near future, his recent outing and his much talked-about Iranian-American background are kind of the least interesting things about him, or at least about his public persona.  You get the sense from his Twitter feed and his Tumblr account and various interviews he’s given, that his art — in its many forms — is really central to his life.  That authenticity comes through in his work, as well, which is something that can’t be said of a lot of young artists who’ve reached the level of success Batmanglij has with Vampire Weekend and his other side projects.  I take that as a sign that he’s an artist who’ll be sticking around for awhile.  More from Batmanglij below:

I knew of Swedish brand The Local Firm peripherally as one of the exhibitors at (capsule), but I revisited them after I saw this post on Selectism about these shades.  I have a similar pair of Ksubis, but I like that these are a bit boxier, and almost have a 3D glasses vibe to them, which for some reason I find appealing.  I don’t even mind the metal plate logo on the bridge.  Even though these were part of the SS11 show, they seem to be carry-overs from this season, as they’re currently available at Blackbird.  Get ‘em while you can.

(Photos via Selectism, Blackbird and The Local Firm)