VMAN’s favorite Danish fashion and art collective Moon Spoon Saloon created this video with their new Fall 2010 collection. It’s an ’80s brat pack roller derby mash-up as seen through some sort of completely demented fashion lens. You can buy their clothes at Seven in New York—the sweaters this season are particularly awesome. And keep an eye out for the next issue of VMAN in which Moon Spoon worked with us to chronicle Sweden’s biggest rock acts.

www.moonspoonsaloon.com

With the date fast approaching for the next VMAN cover shoot, we’ve decided on the four top entrants to this season’s VMAN FORD MODEL SEARCH. In a couple weeks we will be bringing them to New York where they will be shot by Terry Richardson, and one of them will end up on the cover of the next VMAN (and begin a long and successful modeling career). Good luck!

Ford, 18 from Kentucky

Nicholas, 17 from Nevada

Luke, 18 from West Virgina

Michael, 19 from Florida

Bjørg is a new jewelry line out of Oslo. It’s unisex and a lot of the pieces work great on a guy. You’ll see more about them in the upcoming Scandinavian issue of VMAN. In the mean time, check out this short film inspired by Bjørg’s latest collection. Mathias Eriksen, half of film-making duo Matias&Mathias, and the young son of Bjørg’s founder and designer, had this to say about the work:

“We sought to make a film that should not make sense, but at the same time, should feel perfectly natural. As the whole theme of the film is memory and our perception of memories, we wanted to find a way to illustrate how time and space interact and form as images/memories, without being direct and/or conclusive.

We were really inspired by Chris Marker and his film “La Jetee”, not necessarily the style and look of his film, but the structure and how it feels to watch it (if that makes any sense). To make something that will translate the feeling of memory, and in our case to do it in two minutes, that was our goal really. We’re also huge fans of Luis Bunuel, and I think we were very much influenced by how he would use contradictions and images that would not always match your initial expectations to create something that, in the end, would be a lot more rewarding. Dreams and memory are very much a recurring theme with him as well.

“We shot everything in and around Oslo, right before the snowfall last year.”

Check out the film by the same guys on Bjørg’s website www.bjorgjewellery.com. It’s equally cool.

Somehow we missed this one last week. Odyn Vovk is keeping the west coast nu-goth flag flying high. The Fall collection is called Three Fold Path, which refers to somehow making clothes inspired by various trinities like body, mind, and essence. But to us it just means oversize layers, hoods, and really cool leather.

www.odynvovk.com

Michael Bastian’s new collection for the original Connecticut prepsters at Gant is a game changer for the brand. In a matter of months, with the help of Mr. Bastian, Gant has pushed ahead into the forefront of men’s sportswear. The universally loved presentation last Saturday was refreshingly complimented by the location: St Anthony’s Gym on Thompson Street. And within the gym? A locker room, complete with shower and dripping wet models in only a crisp, white Gant towel on one side, with an area designated for herringbone suits, spectacular trenches and dapper graphic knitwear on the other. Bastian seemed to be glowing amidst the large crowd that had formed to admire his new work. We asked how the collaboration had resonated with him. “Well now I feel like I know what it’s like to have two kids,” he remarked. “The Gant kid is sweet and sporty, and my own collection is definitely the more complicated one.”

Click here for a slideshow

Photography Johnny Mischeff

Winning an award from the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation means more than a financial windfall, it is a mark of prestige allowing the winner to claim membership in an elite group comprised of designers like Zac Posen, Proenza Schouler, and Alexander Wang. However, for Korean designer Siki Im, winner of the most recent menswear award, Fall 2010 has little to do with the luxury associated with fine Italian winemakers, at least not directly. Last season Im showed an almost tribal collection, inspired by the dystopian novel Lord of the Flies. This season he revisits those same savages—after they have grown up to become failed Wall Street tycoons. Siki Im’s show took place in an abandoned Bowery warehouse, amongst ransacked cubicles, and shoddy fluorescent lighting, the pulsing sounds of a heavy metal band in the background. The clothes were at once tailored and architectural, with a roguish androgynous streak: the iconic suit of the finance industry reimagined as a base for chunky knit tops, man-skirts, and leather bondage straps.

Click here for a slideshow

Photography Isabel Asha Penzlien

Atelier long ago established itself as a finely curated men’s boutique. With a strong, avant-garde aesthetic of dark minimalism, the store has championed new designers like Damir Doma and Julius, as well as icons like Rick Owens, Yohji Yamamoto, and Ann Demeulemeester. Now their boutique on Hudson houses a new fashion hero: Yves Saint Laurent. Stefano Pilati has personally designed a capsule collection for Atelier. Though it might seem surprising that a luxury brand would partner with an independent retailer, the aesthetics and design concept of both houses have much in common: both are committed to building a wardrobe based on elegant classics with modern innovation. The 17 piece collection, made in Italy, adheres to the Atelier color scheme of grey and black and offers oversized tailored jackets, drop crotch pants, and cashmere knits. Sick as we all may be of collaborations, this one is worth pulling out the plastic for.

www.ateliernewyork.com