Suggested Shopping: Get Your Needs Met at Need Supply Co.
In the past year, Need Supply Co. has become one of the stores I check on a regular basis. Nylon magazine voted it amongst the best denim stores in the world. And lately they've been introducing a line-up of some of my favourite designers. This season: Mary Meyers, Something Else, Seneca Rising and Rodebjer.
Paper-Doll's Fall/Winter 2009 Designer Database is now online. We've invited 60 of our favourite designers from around the globe to showcase their complete lookbooks. You can browse through catalogs from Gemma Degara (pictured above), Surface to Air, Society for Rational Dress, Valerie Dumaine, Complex Geometries and many more.
Akasha Rabut was born in California and raised on Kauai where she started dabbling in photography at the age of 15. She received a merit scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated with a B.F.A in photography in 2007. Askasha currently lives and works professionally as a photographer in Chicago. She loves ambiguity, teenagers, vivid color and negative space - all of which are common themes to her work.
I've been silently stalking these shoes since they were first released, checking the website more than necessary. I've walked past the Acne store in Berlin on numerous occasions, hoping to get a glimpse of these beauties in person. No luck - until this weekend when I stumbled across the Acne store in Amsterdam.