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  • Geoffrey B. Small
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2007
    • 618

    Originally posted by Faust View Post
    Looking forward to seeing you here, Geoffrey!

    Faust, feeling is mutual, looking forward to seeing you! To Errantman, sorry I am on a plane now rushing to get to New York... if you are in town I am happy to try to discuss with you on Saturday, otherwise- no time to write any more than this wifi at 40,000 feet is pretty thin thanks for your comment, in haste cheers, Geoffrey

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    • zamb
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2006
      • 5834

      Maybe late but I hope to swing by tomorrow


      Safe travels my friend and see you soon
      “You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
      .................................................. .......................


      Zam Barrett Spring 2017 Now in stock

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      • Geoffrey B. Small
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2007
        • 618

        Dear Zam, Thanks so much for coming. It was great to see you and wishing you the best in your new space. Thanks also to Faust, and everyone at StyleZeitgeist and Atelier who helped to make such a nice event, and of course, all of the amazing people who turned out to see us yesterday. It was great to speak with each of you and work with you on so many very heartfelt pieces and purchases. Great memories and many thanks to each of you. Now we’re off to the next stop… it’s a busy and intense summer with a fantastic new story just out in Italy on our work in the new print version summer 2019 edition of Basicly magazine written in Milan by Giulia Massarenti with images from our most recent Paris shows in March and June by Giulia Mantovani and Guido Barbagelata. We provide a copy of the article for SZ viewers here below (contact the magazine directly for the print version or the full magazine in digital format https://basiclymag.com/), again with many thanks to everyone...






















































        Last edited by Geoffrey B. Small; 08-04-2019, 08:28 PM.

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        • Geoffrey B. Small
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2007
          • 618






          If you are on the West Coast, I will be in Vancouver on the 6th and 7th of August to discuss this and much more at Leisure Center at 950 Homer Street and introduce the new GBS Fratelli Piacenza Super 210's handmade supersuit to some VIP clients (see post above). Looking forward to seeing some of you there soon! Contact the store for appointments, invites and more info. info@leisure-center.com




          Best wishes, Geoffrey
          (on tour in North America)
          Last edited by Geoffrey B. Small; 08-04-2019, 11:03 AM.

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          • Errantman
            Junior Member
            • Jul 2019
            • 5

            Enjoy your trips and thanks for those mag scans.

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            • Geoffrey B. Small
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2007
              • 618

              Dario Ruggiero's photo story of "the onion"

              Originally posted by Errantman View Post
              Enjoy your trips and thanks for those mag scans.



              Thanks Errantman... We continue to be honored and privileged to have many of the world’s best current working photographers capture our work through their eyes and lenses. Over the past few years, these artists have included Guido Barbagelata, Toru Kitahara, Matthew Reeves, Antonio Maccaro, Catherine Faux, Elizabeth Creseveur, Matteo Carcelli, Dario Ruggiero and others.


              On that note, the photographer Dario Ruggiero who lives and works in Paris has recently graciously provided us with a beautiful series of images he shot during our Autumn/Winter presentation of the ”The onion” collection, which is now beginning to arrive at GBS authorized dealers around the world. With his permission, we are very pleased to present them here exclusively on our designer thread at StyleZeitgeist.com with many thanks,


              Geoffrey & the team










              Antoine. DOC10 handmade Tessitura La Colombina handwoven ”Alpago” wool yarn topcoat (L’Eclaireur Paris, Darklands Berlin, LeForm Moscow, Gullam Tokyo Daikanyama, Hues Fukuoka, Leisure Center Vancouver, Liberte Kobe, Persuade Bilbao, Provogue Nagoya, Secret Service Taipei, Souterrain Tokyo Roppongi, T.O. Kochi). DOK06 pure merino extrafine wool with silk, cashmere and linen accents and detailing (Hostem Archive at Blue Mountain School London) DOS20 pure Como silk handmade shirt. (Hostem Archive BMS London, Darklands Berlin, Eth0s Shanghai, Gullam Tokyo Daikanyama, Ink Hong Kong, Leisure Center Vancouver, Ripe Ark Utsunomiya, Zovin Shenzhen).









              Bleeke. DOJ13 Luigi Parisotto “Mortisa” wool, cotton & cashmere supersuit (Atelier in New York, Zovin). DOS10 handmade L. Parisotto silk & cotton shirt (Eth0s Shanghai, Zovin Shenzhen).










              Sasha. DOJ24 pure Biella cashmere jacket (Arts & Science Tokyo Aoyama, JS Luxe Tokyo/Osaka, Leisure Center Vancouver, Persuade Bilbao, Secret Service Taipei) DOP24 pure Biella cashmere trouser (Carrefour Jiyugaoka, Cathedral Osaka/Ginza, Hues Fukuoka, JS Luxe Tokyo/Osaka, Leisure Center Vancouver, Souterrain Roppongi), DOT01 pure Biella cashmere top(Cathedral Osaka/Ginza, Hues Fukuoka, JS Luxe Tokyo/Osaka, Provogue Nagoya, Ripe Ark Utsunomiya, Souterrain Roppongi). DOA12 real shearling Russian military tanker hat (Darklands Berlin).










              Adrian Mpp. DOK03 pure Merino extrafine wool, alpaca, silk and linen detail cardigan (Darklands Berlin, Eth0s Shanghai, Provogue Nagoya, Secret Service Taipei). DOS17 handmade L.Parisotto super 120’s double-twist Venezia cotton shirt (Chapter One Seoul, JS Luxe Tokyo/Osaka, Liberte Kobe). DOA02 (Persuade Bilbao).









              Davide. DOJ02 reversible 2-in-1 L.Parisotto wool & linen/[pure Biella cashmere (Hostem Archive at Blue Mountain School London, Arts & Science Tokyo Aoyama, Chapter One Seoul, Hues Fukuoka, Ripe Ark Utsunomiya, Souterrain Roppongi). DOS04 pure Biella cashmere houndstooth shirt (Hostem Archive at BMS London, LeForm Moscow, Arts & Science Tokyo Aoyama, Cathedral Osaka/Ginza, Hues Fukuoka, Leisure Center Vancouver, Persuade Bilbao, Ripe Ark Utsunomiya, Secret Service Taipei).









              Alex. DOJ19 DOJ20 DOP19 Fratelli Piacenza 1733 ”Emotion Crossbred” super 150’s 16-micron wool handmade supersuit (L’Eclaireur Boissy Paris, Hostem Archive at Blue Mountain School London, LeForm Moscow, Persuade Bilbao, Leisure Center Vancouver, Hues Fukuoka). DOS16 handmade L.Parisotto super 120’s double-twist Venezia cotton shirt (Ink Hong Kong, Cathedral Osaka/Ginza).









              Jimmy. handbuilt 3-piece Fratelli Piacenza 1733 ”Dunes” babycamel hair basket weave supersuit. DOJ21(Hostem Archive at Blue Mountain School London, LeForm Moscow, Eth0s Shanghai, Gullam Tokyo Daikanyama). DOJ22 with scarf (Hostem Archive at Blue Mountain School London, Eth0s Shanghai, Gullam Tokyo Daikanyama, Souterrain Tokyo Roppongi). DOP23(Hostem Archive at Blue Mountain School London, LeForm Moscow, Eth0s Shanghai, Gullam Tokyo Daikanyama).





              All photos copyright and courtesy Dario Ruggiero.

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              • Mojo1990
                Member
                • Oct 2015
                • 31

                Excellent pictures. They really do justice to the fabric composition and how well they all contrast so beautifully together. It's like poetry in motion. You can appreciate the layering too.

                I am curios to ask if whether the above pictures are representative of the entire collection available for this Fall Winter? Or will further looks be made available as the winter kicks in? I seem to recall a few outwear pieces (over shirts) featured on Instagram last year which I'm anticipating.

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                • Geoffrey B. Small
                  Senior Member
                  • Nov 2007
                  • 618

                  Brad Sisk and our next show in Paris

                  Originally posted by Mojo1990 View Post
                  Excellent pictures. They really do justice to the fabric composition and how well they all contrast so beautifully together. It's like poetry in motion. You can appreciate the layering too.


                  I am curios to ask if whether the above pictures are representative of the entire collection available for this Fall Winter? Or will further looks be made available as the winter kicks in? I seem to recall a few outwear pieces (over shirts) featured on Instagram last year which I'm anticipating.







                  Dear Mojo1990,


                  Thank you as always for your kind comments. Much credit of course goes to Dario Ruggiero who shot the pictures, each of the models and the exceptional people and suppliers who work with us to create the pieces. To answer your question, there is far more to both the "the onion" and "i am not sustainable" aw2019 collections than the selected images for the above story, and deliveries are steadilly arriving at our authorized dealers around the world as we build them and prepare them like an art-gallery or museum exhibition-- one dealer order at a time. We recommend contacting them and keeping an eye on our Instagram and Facebook pages as well as right here on SZ. I am trying to post somewhat regularly, but honestly, am buried with current record production obligations, and all the challenges and problems of running a growing hard-core design company and organization now at almost 40 people in Cavarzere in an extremely volatile and unstable overall industry and market. On top of all that, and even more important as well, is the development and execution of our next Paris women's collection campaign and presentation, which is without a doubt, our most ambitious and challenging to date on a myriad of levels.

                  In only a few days, on September 28th, GBS will launch its 109th Paris collection since we came over to Paris with a suitcase of samples from Boston in 1993. And as always, we will not be resting on any laurels-- but instead, will be betting the entire company that we have built up now for over 40 years, on the single body of new design works and a world Premier Live Opera Performance directed by Brad C. Sisk., who has already brought us three landmark Paris show presentations that have merged live-theater performance with a Paris defile presentation and revolutionized the art of the Paris fashion show. This new art form has begun to bring a new kind of culture to a new global audience that has never seen or known about this kind of art before with Sisk's GBS theatre/defile productions of Samuel Beckett’s “Come and Go” in 2017, William Shakespeare’s King Lear (“Get Ready” AW18 men’s show in January 2018), and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Brothers Karamazov” in Russian (“The Onion” AW19 men’s show in January this year). For those who were present at any one of these presentations, you may still remember the incredible experience we all shared in the room during those electrifying performances merged with record-making GBS design collections. If you were not there, and have not already seen them, I warmly welcome you to view the videos of those presentations on this SZ thread as listed at the end of this post.


                  BRAD SISK is a long-time member of our team and a brilliant artist whom I have also posted about in earlier pages on this thread. And he is now bringing a never before performed 16th century opera piece to our runway that, without revealing too much, contains an explosive and powerful story and message and continues our mission to elevate the art of fashion, its presentation, and its value for human excellence and achievement at the Paris designer collections level. We invite you to hear Brad speak about the upcoming work himself in this brief video trailer clip interview by Giulia Massarenti and Davide Gabriele.

                  Best wishes,

                  Geoffrey










                  For readers wishing to attend the show, we have a few remaining standing space invitations-
                  please mention that you are a StyleZeitgeist reader and write an email to Lionel Cisinski:
                  fashiontherapy@free.fr




                  ****
                  To see the show videos of Brad Sisk’s three other GBS Paris live-theatre defile productions
                  you can go to these SZ thread archive post links:



                  "Come and Go"
                  Samuel Beckett- play of the same name (first live-theatre defile in Paris fashion week):


                  "Get Ready"
                  Shakespeare’s King Lear scene on the Heath (first Shakespearian live-theatre defile in Paris fashion week)
                  Brad Sisk also performs the lead role as Lear in a riveting performance:


                  "The Onion"
                  Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov scene of the Onion (first stage theatrical script of the book in original Russian):
                  http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...l=1#post534294

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                  • Geoffrey B. Small
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2007
                    • 618





                    Due to the complexity of the operation, we have completed the program for our Paris presentation earlier than we normally do, and as a special advance for SZ readers, I am posting it here. L'Alcibiade is by far and away our most ambitious and challenging Paris collection and show to date and will mark our 109th Paris collection presentation. We will be taking a lot of chances with this one in many different ways, and I thought it would be suitable to list out some of the reasoning from our perspective behind what people we will see tonight before any photos, video and whatever media coverage happens to get out. Many may think that there is too much to read, to much to understand, or we are becoming too cerebral. Fashion in the social media age after all, is not looked upon by most as a very intellectual endeavor. Well to me it is. And for 40 years, I have spent my lifetime trying to raise the art, and am honored and privileged to share this view today with so many amazing colleagues and so many of you. GBS has always been for people who think, and for people who think differently. Tonight, we are going to try to challenge all of our minds even further than ever before with a presentation like no other that has ever been attempted on a Paris runway. And if it works it will be a show made possible by an enormous group of amazingly serious and dedicated human beings all working together in the pursuit of total excellence and creative innovation. I felt it best to give credit now before the day begins. Thanks to all of you, Geoffrey












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                    • Geoffrey B. Small
                      Senior Member
                      • Nov 2007
                      • 618



                      The opera singer Melissa Purnell in the stunning finale of "L'Alcibiade last night in Paris shot by Yusuke Shiiki. More coverage coming soon.

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                      • Geoffrey B. Small
                        Senior Member
                        • Nov 2007
                        • 618





                        Virtuoso Performance. The opera singer Enrico Totola performing in the live opera/defile "L'Alcibiade" Saturday night in Paris shot by Yusuke Shiiki.










                        Masters at Work. Harpsichordist Anne-Marie Biondel and Cellist Cécile Veyrolles, both master Baroque music specialists in Paris, take a calm relaxing moment while tuning their incredible (and beautiful) totally handmade instruments before the live opera/defile "L'Alcibiade" Saturday night in Paris directed by Brad C. Sisk. The opera, discovered by Sisk, had never been performed since it was first written by the composer Marc' Antonio Ziani in a theater in Venice in 1680 for the Duke of Mantua Carlo Ferdinando. Photograph by Yusuke Shiiki.









                        Total Focus. Me backstage a few minutes before the live opera/defile "L'Alcibiade" Saturday night in Paris directed by Brad C. Sisk. It was our firm's most ambitious and most expensive Paris presentation to date incorporating a cabine of almost 40 top models, 2 top classical musicians on harpsichord and cello, 3 virtuoso opera singers brought up from Italy, and a massive Athenian and Venetian staging concept developed by Brad Sisk, architects Davide Gabriele and Paul Bradley and over 60 amazing professional collaborators all working together to put on a type of show that has never been done before on a Paris runway. I cannot convey the tension and the excitement and the pressure going through my mind at that moment caught in the photograph by Yusuke Shiiki. More coverage coming soon.


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                        • Ahimsa
                          Vegan Police
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 1878

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                          • Geoffrey B. Small
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2007
                            • 618

                            .


                            We told you so....




                            The global fashion industry is an ecological disaster & streetwear is part of this sustainability problem. We explore the issue no one wants to talk about.




                            A huge admission from some of the folks who have been pushing the idea from the beginning.







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                            Last edited by Geoffrey B. Small; 10-24-2019, 04:01 AM.

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                            • Nickefuge
                              Senior Member
                              • Nov 2014
                              • 860

                              Originally posted by Highsnobiety
                              After all, its unsustainable business model rooted in weekly drops has encouraged a consumption cycle where last week’s purchase is no longer relevant only a week later, pressuring consumers to buy again.
                              … like Highsnobiety’s monthly collaboration-drops consisting mostly of nylon are that much better.

                              Originally posted by Geoffrey B. Small
                              A huge admission from some of the folks who have been pushing the idea from the beginning.
                              I have a feeling this is a move solely based on the trend of ecological awareness. We can hope this article reaches at least a small percentage of their audience (the one that stills has the attention-span to read it) and maybe even makes them rethink their spending habits.
                              "The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in."
                              -Paris Hilton

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                              • Geoffrey B. Small
                                Senior Member
                                • Nov 2007
                                • 618

                                Originally posted by Nickefuge View Post
                                … like Highsnobiety’s monthly collaboration-drops consisting mostly of nylon are that much better.



                                I have a feeling this is a move solely based on the trend of ecological awareness. We can hope this article reaches at least a small percentage of their audience (the one that stills has the attention-span to read it) and maybe even makes them rethink their spending habits.

                                Thanks for the comment. Couldn't agree more with you, NIckefuge. Nevertheless, it is a big admission.

                                In the meantime, we will continue our simple and steady effort that now spans 40 years, to really do something about sustainability.

                                And we will continue to invest in media that has and continues to speak out about real design and real issues pertaining to it.

                                In so doing, we happily present our new AW2019 lookbook campaign shot by Guido Barbagelata in Paris that we are now proudly running on SZ magazine's site (via our banner ad) as well as the upcoming issue of Many of Them coming out soon. We strongly believe it is important to help sustain the few independent media voices that are not simply commercial mouthpieces for corporation fashion and their trends, which now more than ever is becoming "sustainability" greenwashing. We encourage more of our independent designer and brand colleagues brethren to do the same...




















































                                Last edited by Geoffrey B. Small; 10-27-2019, 02:02 PM.

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