A.P.C. JOURNAL

COLLABORATIONS : PLAYLIST N#1 – HOUSSE DE RACKET

We asked 10 of our friends if they would make for us a little mixtape. Those playlists will soon be heard in our stores.

French band Housse De Racket is opening. (http://www.club-housse.com/)

EVENTS : NEW STORE OPENING

When one opens a store in a city one has no history with, it’s quite necessary to look for signs that a friendly ghost could send.

This happened to me in the city of Lille, which is located 120 miles North of Paris, and easily reachable in a one hour high speed train ride. There was a cathedral near the location suggested to me; the place was all right, but I needed something to hang on to. The cathedral next to it had something weird and ungraceful from the outside, which intrigued me, so I went inside. Then I discoverd that the very boring usual stained-glass windows had been removed and replaced by beautiful white marble slabs, and that looks absolutly fantastic from the inside of the building. So, as one says, «you can’t judge a book by its cover». This job was done by architect Pierre-Louis Carlier in 1999. Steel structure which supports this art is by Peter Rice.

A.P.C. Lille, 17 rue Masurel, 59000 Lille, France / T 0033 320 424 998

BILLET D'HUMEUR : INTERVIEW MAGAZINE // JEAN TOUITOU BY FRASER COOKE

« When thinking of understated, minimal men’s and women’s clothing with that hard-to-define effortless something, the name Atelier de Production et de Création, or A.P.C., is one that immediately springs to mind. Jean Touitou started the label in 1987 as a reaction to what he saw as the loud, money-focused, gaudy mood of the ’80s. An idealist and revolutionary who had fallen somehow unexpectedly into fashion in the late ’70s, Touitou, born in Tunisia and raised in Paris, was looking for a movement and couldn’t find one, so he decided to create an alternative to what he saw around him (…) »

Click on the image to read the rest of the interview

EVENTS : NEW A.P.C. STORE IN NYC SEPTEMBER 2010

By the end of september, there shall be a new A.P.C. store in New York City.

It will be on 92 Perry Street, right in the West village and its inspiring ghosts.

COLLECTION : JACKET

Herringbone tweed jacket for men, from our resort collection.

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IN THE MAKING : WINTER 2011

Still life photo shoot for next collection.

FROM OUR VAULT : VINTAGE A.P.C.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld shot by M. Chemetov (1995).

Picture by Maï Lucas (1995).

COLLECTION : SANDALS

Leather and wood sandals from our resort collection.

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COLLABORATIONS : A.P.C. + CARHARTT

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BILLET D'HUMEUR : TOUT DOIT DISPARAÎTRE

Oh well..well… the sheer nonsense caused by the misuse of words will fill me with dismay for ever. It is a godsend, in a way, to be disturbed in such a way in our decivilised world, as it is a reminder that we’re really up shit creek. By the way, this could be an ideal subject for a literary university entrance exam : « Before a new concept appears, must old ones necessarily disappear? » Jean T.

FROM OUR VAULT : VINTAGE A.P.C.

Lou Doillon shot by Takashi Homma (2000) and Pierre Bailly (2005).

EVENTS : A.P.C. STAFF PARTY

Ready for the annual staff dinner party at A.P.C. Studio, June 17th.

COLLABORATIONS : AESOP

Washing your clothes yourself is a good thing to me, and this is specially true of jumpers, wool requires a lot of water, and taking your woollen, cotton, or cashmere jumpers to the dry cleaners is altogether a depressing, costly, and not so efficient affair.

MIND YOUR OWN LAUNDRY BUSINESS !

Jean T.

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EVENTS : A.P.E.

Annual class photo session for Atelier de la Petite Enfance, the preschool founded by Jean Touitou.
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IN THE MAKING : QUILTS

Prototypes made up of vintage A.P.C. fabrics, designed by Jessica Ogden & Jean Touitou, available end of october.

EVENTS : SINGAPORE

New Singapore store, in Raffles Hotel.

BILLET D'HUMEUR : CHRISTINE MUHLKE

I went to Detroit thinking of Stooges and Death and even Jack White, of crumbling mansions and Motown.

There I found a city that had rotted long ago — picked clean down to the last light switch — yet still beautiful. People are planting gardens in empty lots where 10 houses once stood. They are making music in empty ballrooms. Both out of necessity.

Back in New York, I tried to describe what I’d witnessed to my boss.

« So, you’ve seen the future, » she said.

COLLECTION : BUTLER

People who prefer their denim unwashed can return their used A.P.C. jeans, in trade for a new pair at half price. The trousers thusly recovered will be marked with the initials of the person who broke them in, washed suitably, repaired as necessary, ironed and then resold.

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