Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham are the brilliant minds behind one of L’usine’s favorite brands, United Bamboo. They haven’t added the fashionable cats from their annual calendar into their runway show just yet but here’s a preview of the
Fall 2011 Ready-To-Wear collection from the recent New York Fashion Week.
Thuy shared some positive responses from the show, "We showed a collection with lots of coats. Big hits were some of the shearling coats and the shoes. Everyone was telling me it looked very 'United Bamboo' which is good I think. It means they wanna wear the stuff."
Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear of Animal Collective, Sean Lennon, James Iha and MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden were spotted at the show. This season, Pete Kember formerly of Spacemen 3 produced the music.
One can only hope that the cats will make their live runway debut one day. Until then, monthly inspirational outfits can be referenced in the
2011 calendar available for order in the US.
Now what would a show be without its after party? Every season, United Bamboo collaborates with
Justine D. to throw one of the must-get-to parties of fashion week. This season,
Dossier Journal also presented the after party at the Jane Hotel. Karen O and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem (probably taking a welcomed break from “the last ever LCD show sold-out in minutes and crashing servers because of lame scalpers” debacle) provided the tunes that had everyone rocking including LCD’s James Murphy (who wrote an amazing
response letter to the last show drama), David Chang of Momofuku, Kirsten Dunst and all these
pretty people.
