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This Week’s Vintage Picks

admin — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:24:56 +0000

Coogi Knit Sweater

Issey Miyake Canvas Nylon Jacket

Raw Silk Cowl Dress

Donna Karan Silk Sash dress.

Thanks to all who came to the opening party of ‘ERMIE Curates WELTENBUERGER.’

admin — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:11:57 +0000

Saturday was great for us here at Weltenbuerger. Our new house wares have been well received and our reception was a blast. Thank you to all that were and are a part of this magic.

For those who couldn’t make it, here is a mix from our DJ of the event, Genevieve D.

Until next time,
Erik Anaya
for WELTENBUERGER.

ERMIE CURATES WELTENBUERGER

admin — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:00:22 +0000

ERMIE CURATES WELTENBUERGER

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This month, Weltenbuerger is excited to celebrate design and the way in which good design can enrich our everyday lives by providing us not only with a practical object, but with a work of art that can inspire. It is with this desire that we are proud to collaborate with local designer Jennifer Parry Dodge of ERMIE, for

“ERMIE CURATES WELTENBUERGER”

If ERMIE where a world, you would enter it through an instagram social media portal (@ermiegram). You would be thrown into ERMIE world where people use their hands in slow work to create things in old ways that make you pause and smile then think … thats the future !

JENNIFER PARRY DODGE( DESIGNER OF ERMIE), @WELTENBUERGER STORE IN VENICE. (http://www.ermieblog.blogspot.com/)

Jennifer (DESIGNER OF ERMIE) has gathered together art and objects, both from her own collection and from others, for Weltenbuerger Store Venice that we hope will inspire you to start creating and surround yourself with art – even if it is found in something as simple as a TRIVET!

The artists in the collection use techniques that range from the ancient and traditional interpreted by current choices of material …

MOROCCAN RUGS …

BOUCHEROUITE RUG (DETAIL) FROM FES (MORROCCO), CARE OF NINA MOHAMMAD-GALBERT

… OR WEAVINGS ( by NEW/FRIEND ) …

… TO THE TRULY MODERN DIGITALLY-PRINTED PILLOWS,

ERMIE + YHBHS COLLABORATION

to create beautifully designed objects we think are timeless in their aesthetic – what we like to think of as the Weltenbuerger aesthetic.

DOUG JOHNSTON … ROPE WORKS

COTTON AND THREAD SCULPTURES/VESSELS CREATED BY BROOKLYN ARTIST, DOUG JOHNSTON (http://www.dougjohnston.net/)

The use of weaving and knitting, the emphasis on natural materials, and a reverence for household objects in Ermie’s curation creates a mixing of “high” and “low” art that we at Weltenbuerger are excited about because it doesn’t require us to choose between art and functional objects – they are both at the same time! “Look, listen. Many of the objects serve a concrete function. I suspect that each of the artists I have asked to participate have all been engaged in the act of creating since childhood, and will continue to create in some form throughout the remainder of their lives,” says Jennifer.

CERAMIC VASE BY LA ARTIST, BARI ZIPERSTEIN, (FROM A SERIES OF CERAMIC VESSELS) (http://bariziperstein.com/)

So come, be inspired by how design can enrich our lives and walk home with your very own work of art!

ERMIE CURATES WELTENBUERGER at

WELTENBUERGER STORE // VENICE
1221 ABBOT KINNEY BLVD
VENICE CA 90291

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Opening Reception:
Saturday 10/20/12 7pm - 11pm
with a DJ Set by Genevieve Dellinger

Track List: > Luciano- Fourges Et Sabres (Perlon)

Kris Wadsworth- Junky Lust (Morris/Audio)
Christopher Rau- Talk (Smallville)
Steve Bug- A Night Like This/Richie Hawtin A Dub Like That (Poker Flat)
John Roberts- Promise (Dial)
Tini- That’s Right (Movement Sound)
Nick Curly - Critical Mass (Murmur)
Martin Landsky- Sweet Sweet Morning (Poker Flat)
Venedikt Reyf- Keep Right On (Rimini)

Sunpeople- Check Your Buddha (Soul Capsule Mix)

http://www.mediafire.com/?9a95lp4d703guzf

THE CURATION WILL LAST FROM
10/20/12 - 12/31/12

W/// By WELTENBUERGER : SCRUBS DRESS and BEMBERG SHIRT DRESS

admin — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:15:53 +0000

Here at Weltenbuerger, we have a role in challenging, shifting, guiding the narrative of a wearable aesthetic culture. We bring you a cargo of contemporary and vintage designer clothing that are selected to effectively transmit and transport the wearer to and from dense emotional temperatures and imaginative landscapes. There is a point of view with which Weltenbuerger remains consistent. This indicates a reverence for the avant-garde, while remaining accessible to a diverse audience. We provide garments in a variety of fits, colors, textures, because we understand the marginalized shopper.

W/// By WELTENBUERGER - Scrubs Dress

W/// By WELTENBUERGER - Bemberg Shirt Dress

Now, we are extending that to the release of some new garments from our own W/// by WELTENBUERGER line. Weltenbuerger understands the innate individualism of a creative clientele. Bryan Sanderson, the owner of Weltenbuerger, knowingly has a personal style, and accordingly he knows how to select for a diverse clientele. This unique logic informs the creation of our own pieces, newly available in both the Venice and Los Feliz locations of the Weltenbuerger store.

Some of our shoppers may remember the W/// by WELTENBUERGER Scrubs Dress, which is more or less a tent / sheath dress that can be worn either forward or backward. This dress has been interpreted in a new fabric and color story for the fall. The cream fabric is Bemberg cotton, which is denser and naturally more silken than the more linen-like material previously used, and the color is also more versatile. The dress can still be worn either forward or backward, which extends its aesthetic range. A cap sleeve dress with a pocket on either side, the new Scrubs dress is also a testament to the appeal and comfort of a dress that can truly be worn up or worn down. The color story being so like canvas extends this same idea. The wearer imbues the dress with as much meaning as they see fit, whereby she (or he) participates in our mantra by being the guide for a garment’s emotional depth and aptitude.

Pockets work both ways.

The same Bemberg cotton is used in our new Bemberg Shirt Dress. The garment is a button down, and wood buttons are used both along the front of the garment and at the ends of the ¾ length sleeves. Twelve-inch slits on either side of the garment give even more variety in its wear. It is an oversized garment, and it can be worn as a top for a woman, as a shirt for a man, or as a dress for a woman or man. It can be worn over or under garments and again, easily modified for many occasions. This is the opportunity for great access that we strive to provide. We want to create garments that are versatile in wear, across demographics, fluid in gender variation and performance, adherent to different body types, and transmutable to other personal forms or arenas of emotive or physical expression.

The new Scrubs Dress and Bemberg Shirt Dress can be shopped both online at weltenbuerger.org, or in either of our retail locations, in Venice, at 1221 Abbot Kinney Blvd., or in Los Feliz at 1764 N Vermont Ave.

admin — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:25:54 +0000

The WELTENBUERGER Man

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We are in the practice of curating clothing at the WELTENBUERGER Store in LA. WELTENBUERGER wants to present our unique and selective assortment of vintage and contemporary designer- wear to a diverse collective of women and men. We want that our distinct approach to design and the curation of clothing, be apparent in our namesake, which translates to “World Citizen,” and resonant with those who shop and wear our garments. WELTENBUERGER concretely presents a global cargo in our product, which hails from Germany, Japan, and now also from some New York and L.A.-based designers. Now, while WELTENBUERGER engages and locates many people in global conversations about contemporary culture and media, it is our focus also to remind our male audience of the important role they play in a dialogue of fashion, culture, and the practice of art.

WELTENBUERGER features an array of designers who recognize this collaborative potential. Collectively, we are providing context for the work of our world. By providing garments that eradicate staunch conventions in male fashion, we produce a shift in aptitude and appreciation for a more global aesthetic enterprise. So, I invite you, MEN, to elevate your wardrobe of basics, to re-articulate the importance of fit and function, and more importantly, re-assert yourselves as integral to the conversation of clothing.

For the man with zeitgeist on his tongue, there is RAPHAEL HAUBER, a Berlin-based designer, with a Disc Jockey-like ability to “re-mix” the classic. A resonance with the domestic pastiche can be felt with the work of designers CORRELL CORRELL (Twin sisters Daphne and Vera Correll via NYC, by way of Berlin), who distinctly maintain an intimate, hand’s on approach to design defined by hand stitching, dying, weaving, and knitting. “Tough, dirty, and sometimes vamped up,” reflect the vocabulary of Julia Heuse, and her eponymous line JULIAANDBEN, which brings the male wearer to an urban setting. A true marriage of the commercial and conceptual, JULIAANDBEN’s designs invert the function of conventional silhouettes by re-interpreting garments with unique moon-wash, acid-wash, bleaching, and dying techniques. WELTENBUERGER will always provide an amazing cargo of Designer Men’s Vintage as well, and this collection will always compliment, complicate, ramify, and extend connections to and within our contemporary designer work, regardless of where it might lead.

RAPHAEL HAUBER

Raphael Hauber, at “home” in Berlin.

(Image courtesy of http://www.stilinberlin.de)

Raphael Hauber’s CD Bomber Jacket featured one of his self designed prints, which are always surprising. This jacket features digital renderings via aerial views of agricultural watering circles. Shop this design: http://weltenbuerger.org/webstore/us_en/men-1/raphael-hauber-cd-bomber.html

Raphael Hauber’s AM Jacket, reveals the designer’s penchant for tweaking classics, using that famous and ingenious German engineering to craft the perfect fall outerwear. Shop this design: http://weltenbuerger.org/webstore/us_en/men-1/raphael-hauber-am-jacket.html

CORRELL CORRELL

Twin Sisters Daphne and Vera Correll launched their handmade knitwear line in Berlin in 2006. The sisters are now based in New York, where they continue to produce unique clothing that features a precious, hands-on approach to design defined by knitting, hand-stitching, weaving, and dying.

The COLORWHEEL t-shirts from CORRELL CORRELL, demonstrate their confluent reverence for simplicity and constructive integrity. Their simple geometries appeal to both a basic and avant-garde subset of male shoppers. The COLORWHEEL t-shirt an be found in several colors, as seen above, on our webstore.

JULIAANDBEN

Born in the back room of an art gallery on Torstrasse in Berlin`s bustling art district Mitte, Julia Heuse’s eponymous fashion label JULIAANDBEN formed in 2006, on her graduation from Berlin’s prestigious deisgn school ESMOD.

” Channeling her respective influences into a menswear and womanswear label continues to strike a balance between commercial and conceptual, classic and avant-garde and mixes glamour with a unique Berlin street style. Her design challenges conventionality – such as boxy oversized cuts or draped fabrics in both her designs for woman and men – but, importantly, the creations are also flattering. Many of the materials have been tie-dyed, bleached, moonwashed or aged to create different effects. The fabrics in the collections have an interesting impact as they reflect the urban lifestyle at best. Tough, dirty and sometimes vamped up.” (Courtesy of http://www.juliaandben.com/about/ )

WELTENBUERGER Also Loves US Jewelry Designers

admin — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:55:08 +0000

Weltenbuerger’s Love for US designers extends to Jewelry.

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Jewelry as representations of mood, spirit and Time. Some US jewelry designers favored by Weltenbuerger.

Our obsession for great design is not limited to clothing. We here at Weltenbuerger are constantly inspired by thought provoking design. Design for furniture, architecture, prints, art etc. etc. We look for emotionally charged designs. Designs that are representations of intangible ideas and/or emotions. We found that jewelry is a great way to transcend emotions or spirit. To represent time as it is in a moment. Even, represent a time period in one’s life or even day. To wear a representation of whats inside our minds is in a way liberating. A piece of jewelry can hold onto our ideas or thoughts or feelings. Allowing us to free our minds for tasks or situations at hand. Also, protect us from situations.

Jewelry also has an opposite affect. Jewelry can create moods and/or feelings. Feelings of empowerment or Enlightenment. The right piece can make you feel calm and an other can make you feel confidant. Its about connecting with the jewelry and discovering what you can gain from wearing a emotionally charged item.

Upon discovering US clothing designers, that are helping us tell the story that is Weltenbuerger, we also discovered great US jewelry designers. We are happy to introduce to you some of our US jewelry collection. The simplistic designs of Metal-Smith (San Francisco) are great for calming oneself. Their geometric shapes are great for representing reliance and stability. While they’re delicate details represent vulnerability. The elaborate and elegant designs of Quarry (NY) have an ancient feel. Good for representing wisdom and power. They can really make you feel exotic and important. If you want to feel contemporary and abstract, Faux/Real (NY) is what to wear. They are great to represent a playful seriousness. To feel bold elegance there is Myrrh Jewelry (LA). These pieces are good for representing ones individuality and spirit.

Metal-Smith (San Francisco)

“Metal Smith is designed and hand forged in San Francisco by Isabella Behravan.My inspiration for this first Metal Smith collection comes from the profound significance between jewelry and the person who wears it. My designs are a direct reflection of the techniques I use. Because of this, I draw a lot of inspiration from the metal itself—the subtle colors and textures created in the metalsmithing process are fundamental to my designs.Metal Smith is synonymous with refined hand wrought qualities.” -taken from metal-smith.com

Shop for these items online:
http://weltenbuerger.org/webstore/us_en/accessories/metal-smith.html

You can find even more pieces from Metal-Smith at our Los Feliz location: 1764 N. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, Ca. 90027

http://metal-smith.com/index.html

Quarry (New York)

Ninh Wysocan, who studied sculpture and furniture design at RISD and has helmed an eponymous fine jewelry line—notable for organic forms fashioned from precious metals—since 2003. She launched Quarry, a more accessibly-priced line of bold statement pieces, in spring 2011. “Making fine jewelry is something I really love, but because of the materials there are some basic constrictions that have prevented me from exploring larger sizes and more unusual stones,” Wysocan told The Fashion Informer of her new line.”With Quarry, the design is much more about creating statement pieces in bronze and brass with really beautiful, but rarely used, semi-precious gems/minerals. While my fine jewelry line is about organic forms, layering and drapery, Quarry is inspired by a wide mix of more minimal architecture and traditional tribal jewelry. I like to think about what it might mean to make amulets for our age: What kind of superstitions does today’s woman need to ward off? And what sort of symbolic form does that yield?” -taken from the fashion in former.

Shop online at:
http://weltenbuerger.org/webstore/us_en/designer-and-new-1/quarry-new-york.html

More great designs at our Los Feliz Location.

http://www.quarryjewelry.us/

Faux/Real (New York)

“FAUX/real is the evolutionary voice of several minds brought together to express their inner selves, the medium at hand being wearable designs. We blur the lines of reality through the exploration of the future and the relativity of the now.” And that’s the message of FAUX/real, Brooklyn’s jewelry duo of Louis DeCicco and Jennifer Franzese, the creative minds behind New York’s break out line.
-taken from Dazed Digital

Shop for these items here:
http://weltenbuerger.org/webstore/us_en/accessories/faux-real-new-york.html

Don’t forget to visit our Los Feliz location.

http://www.fauxrealnyc.com/

Myrrh Jewelry (Los Angeles)

MYRRH is a line of hand-made artisan jewelry, from Los Angeles, California. Influenced by the landscapes & moods of the nearby Mojave Desert, it represents the spirit of the urban gypsy girl who love fashion and travel.

MYRRH latest collection “Fractals” is influenced by fractals in nature and our interpretation of them.
-taken from myrrhjewelry.com

Shop here: http://weltenbuerger.org/webstore/us_en/accessories/myrrh-jewelry-los-angeles.html

1764 N. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90027

http://myrrhjewelry.com/

Check out these amazing pieces and never stop expressing yourself.

END OF SUMMER SALE … ONLY ONE WEEK STARTING NOW … ONLINE, AT WELTENBUERGER STORE LA & VENICE … END OF SUMMER SUCH A BUMMER

admin — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:24:04 +0000

END OF SUMMER SALE ON NEW DESIGNER USE DISCOUNT CODE “ENDOFSUMMERSUCHABUMMER” AT YOUR CHECK OUT

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THIS SALE ALSO APPLIES AT

WELTENBUERGER STORE L.A. AND

WELTENBUERGER STORE VENICE

WELTENBUERGER LOVES US DESIGNERS

admin — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:14:00 +0000

/ WELTENBUERGER LOVES
US DESIGNERS /

Although Weltenbuerger is known for our Japanese influences and European designers, we also love U.S. designers. After all we are World Citizens.
We have discovered a delightful handful of designers right near to home and in our catty corner city, New York. Upon expanding to Venice we found a local designer of California inspired dresses for the busy modern Woman, John&Mickie.In our home of Los Angeles there is a the simplistic approach to daily elegance from the designer of 69. Ermie, also L.A. based, uses digitally printed patterns that play with the eye. From New York, Not Aligne, creates thought provoking clothing, both elegant and abstract.

/ John&Mickie /

Venice Local, Loraine Ebbins, created a line of dresses in honor of her free spirited mother and her rocket scientist father, John and Mickie. Her So-Cal inspired dresses are meant for the urban life. Each dress is hand dyed so, no two dresses are exactly alike. “The most important to me is to make women look and feel beautiful.” -Loraine. John&Mickie is designed in Venice and manufactured in Los Angeles.

johnandmickie.com

This item and others available in store or at:
http://weltenbuerger.org/webstore/us_en/designer-and-new-1/john-mickie.html

/ 69 /

In 2009 oour good friend, A. Halford, created a unisex clothing line which is produced and manufactured here in Los Angeles. Her clothing’s simplistic yet structured designs create quite an opulent feel. Its very refreshing and easy to fall in love with. Her mission: To make you feel good.

perfectsixtynine.com

This item and others available in store or at:
http://weltenbuerger.org/webstore/us_en/designer-and-new-1/69-los-angeles.html

/ Ermie /

Yet another L.A. designer, Jennifer P. Dodge, has created a line of products for the more playful, Ermie. Her garments are hand made here in Los Angeles then digitally printed with water based inks in San Francisco and North Carolina. All the digitally printed pieces are printed on natural fiber textiles. Some of the original designs that are printed can play with the eye a bit. There is the Pixel dress, from afar, appears to look blurred. Up close it is just a beautiful display of color and pattern. This line is named after her great aunt Ermie who, encouraged her creativity. “Ermie garments are built to last, are timeless and are meant to be enjoyed for seasons to come.”

ermie.bigcartel.com

These items and others available in store or at:
http://weltenbuerger.org/webstore/us_en/designer-and-new-1/ermie-la.html

/ Not Aligne /

Best if I use the designers words to describe this line.

“Based in New York City, NOT is a studio focused on the visceral experience of dressing: a constant and instinctual dialogue between garment and wearer as they transform each other.
It is dressing as heightened awareness: of weight and exposure, of affected vision and hearing, of height, touch, balance. Clothing is a subtlety of theatre in our lives, and dressing a performance we choose to participate in.

Unafraid of standing alone, the NOT woman defines herself as being unlike the rest.”

Jenny Lai, at a very young age studied music, dance, art, speech and theatre. She has taken all these skills and infused them into her own company. After her studies at Rhode Island school of design, she studied traditional artisans’ techniques in Mexico City. She later, designed paper jewelry for a women’s cooperative in Rwanda. Then apprenticed in the atelier of Viktor & Rolf in Amsterdam. She returned to New York in 2011 to start her own studio.

notaligne.com

These items and more available in store or at:
http://weltenbuerger.org/webstore/us_en/designer-and-new-1/not-aligne-new-york.html

Come check out these amazing garments at either of our locations.

Enjoy,

-Erik

Jessie Ware // Wildest Moments // T. Williams Remix

Jonathan Brown — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:50:08 +0000

UK Garage is making such a comeback! Most of you may remember some of the late nineties/early aughts anthems of it’s sub-genre, Two-Step Garage, e.g., Craig David’s “Fill Me In” or Artful Dodger’s “Rewind.” We watched it swing, jerk and shuffle it’s way through commercial remixes of U.S. R&B artists Destiny’s Child and Brandy. Unfortunately, those who were aware of this growing musical trend saw it quickly fizzle out stateside, digging it’s way back into underground obscurity. Within the last couple of years, it has slowly begun to reinvent itself by creating new forms within Dubstep, and simultaneously through the revival of music that sounds like what the essence of UK Garage really was, prior to it’s Two-Step R&B Pop Fusion phase. This remix of Jessie Ware’s “Wildest Moments” by T. Williams is one of those tracks.

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Posted by Jonathan Brown.

ALSO AT 1221

admin — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:54:18 +0000

The Weltenbuerger Store // Venice Opening Party is happening this Saturday, July 28. That same night Altered Space Gallery, with whom we share the space at 1221, will be hosting the opening reception for a group show called Pop Fringe. Here’s some more info.

POP FRINGE ARTISTS PUSH BEYOND LOW-BROW’S SAFETY ZONE

POP FRINGE is a show of 3 young contemporary artists that work along the frayed edge of “lowbrow” or “street” aesthetic. These artists push beyond the established cliches of today’s trendiest contemporary art movement. MEEX ONE paints street art symbols as geometric abstraction, MICHELE MIKESELL paints other-worldly histories with classicist themes, and TYLER FERREIRA unearths the fragmented unconscious of lowbrow with large-scale drawings & lithographs. Opening reception: Saturday, July 28, 7-10pm.

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 28 | 7-10pm

1221 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, CA 90291

You can RSVP by clicking here or on the flyer below.