Admittedly, there’s not an awful lot I know about Turkey. An aunt regularly visits some sleepy seaside resort there, it boasts plenty of Byzantine architecture, it’s the place of production for many’s a Junk de Luxe piece and this blog (according to Analytics) isn’t exactly hot s**t over there. But, more importantly, I didn’t know it’s home to Istanbul-based brand Tween, a brand (offering both slick menswear and womenswear with a distinctly European rather than specifically-Turkish feel) that strives to bridge the gap between the mainstream mass and the purveyors of luxury.
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And it’s pretty successful in its effort, it seems. Granted I’m not a fan of every piece comprising the AW09 collection but the appearance of a boxy leather waistcoat (thumbs down…) and a considerably dated-looking fire-engine-red bomber shouldn’t detract from some of the more innovative members of the family like the fallow-brown quilted leather bomber below (please visit the site, these pictures just don’t do the apparent textured wondrousness that is this jacket, justice)…
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Or the charcoal contrast jacket with smokey grey lapels, epaulettes and flap-pockets. I’ve often said it of menswear and I’ll say it again, it’s all in the deets and here, they most definitely, are.
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Oh and, wanted to ask…ever seen a funnel-neck jacket, waistcoat and bib-shirt all-in-one? Nor had I ’til now. Must be said, am all the happier for its existence, if only to lust after online…
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Screen-caps from Tween
I am lusting after the charcoal contrast jacket…although a jacket as detail-heavy should be worn with simpler items of clothing to highlight its beauty.
Daniel: couldn't have put it better myself, I'd pair it with a brilliant white tee/vest, rolled-cuff shorts and some grey patent derbys if I had my way…/Male-Mode.com
this jackets are amazing! i love them… god bless the tweens.;)