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Samsung Mobile and Alexander Wang Partner for Crowd-Sourced Design Process to Benefit Art Start Charity

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. WANGSamsung, and New York-based designer Alexander Wang announced today a collaboration to create the industry’s first co-created print inspired by crowd-sourced sketches and images using the GALAXY Note II. The print will appear on a limited-edition bag that will be sold in key markets around the world to raise funds for Art Start, an award-winning, nationally-recognized charity that uses the arts to nurture the creative talents of at-risk children and youth.

Leveraging the GALAXY Note II’s inherent create-and-share benefit, Wang will engage a group ofspecial friends, stylists, photographers, and others to create “doodles” – an image, pattern, or a photo – on their GALAXY Note II device. Gathering from active idea-capturing and immediate-sharing, the celebrated New York designer will then curate these sketches into one collectively-inspired final print.

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Alexander Wang Men’s Collection for Fall 2013

alexander-wang-008For his third men’s collection, Parsons drop-out, Alexander Wang put the emphasis on outerwear, with propositions including a shirred shearling parka with a glossy detachable hood, and a stiff black leather jacket. Details like double shoulder seams and sweatshirt-style front pockets kept the jackets grounded in his sportswear universe.

While we always appreciate anything avant-garde here at Coup d’étage, we’re not really sure where someone would wear this. Some of the jackets remind us of Maison Martin Margiela, in the sense that they seem kind of too over the top to be functional.

See the full look-book in the gallery after the break.

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