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Maison Scotch Spring/Summer 2012
From the Amsterdam-based design studio ‘Magasin d’une collectionneuse’, Maison Scotch proudly presents its Spring/Summer 2012 collection. A considered line of high quality items, designed with love and with great focus on the small details that Maison Scotch is known for. Inspired by a careful blend of New York’s street style, Japan’s innovative design and the ‘je ne sais quoi’ sense of style of Parisiennes, every Maison Scotch piece embodies the natural female elegance represented by the dandelion logo. Creating a collection feels like an endless journey, gathering souvenirs, wondering around antique markets looking for vintage treasures and making notes along the way.
A splash of colour
For Spring/Summer 2012, the design team was inspired by long summer nights in the city and tropical heat. The signature sun-faded colours are mixed with more fresh, bright and bold tones. Splashes of colour are sprinkled throughout the collection, on new accessories and labels to make every detail of the garment rich and special. Like every season our fabrics are inspired from all over the world; delicate washed silk, French lace, cotton-silk blends, sporty cotton mesh, natural linens and washed twills.
Highlights
The tropical inspiration comes to life in original Hawaiian shirts, dresses with coloured bead details and neon chinos. Great effort went into rich woven tops this season, with fine details like embroideries,ruffles and lace, enhancing the high-summer ethnic look. For the easy days, Maison Scotch has expanded the range of graphic tees, with colour accents in hand-drawn graphics and photo prints witha festival touch. New fits like A-line, boxy and cropped fit tees will make you look effortlessly cool. As for bottoms, Maison gives the continuing success of its chino an extra push, by designing new styles like a chino in over-dye pique quality, a new super soft twill, a dressed skinny fit and an army chino. The pants collection features a diverse range of solid and printed styles, carpenter-like workwear and chic tailored styles inspired by young Parisiennes, alongside easy shorts for bike rides along the pier.When the sun sets and the streets get chilly, Maison offers beautiful jackets and blazers in a considered palette of colours, fabrics and details that can’t be missed. For a spicy finishing touch, try the newbeaded jewelry, coloured leather bags, linen beach bags and printed scarves. It has never been more fun to mix it up!
Ete Blanc, les pièces blanches
By the name of 'Ete Blanc, les pièces blanches', Maison Scotch has designed a capsule collection of white summer pieces, perfect to wear over a bikini on the beach, or with denims in the city. From the crisp white boyfriend shirt to the delicate lace top or the pretty embroidered dress, these are the summer wardrobe essentials that will never go out of style.
Love,
Maison Scotch
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Scotch & Soda Spring/Summer 2012
From the heart of Amsterdam, Scotch & Soda proudly presents its Spring/Summer 2012 collection. A line of high quality items, defined by Scotch’s old school sense of style; adding a fresh, contemporary twist and lots of unique detailing to each garment, on the inside as much as on the outside. Influences from all over the world are taken to achieve a diverse look which is characteristic for the collections. Scotch & Soda simply wants people to love their clothes and enjoy wearing them.
Highlights
For Spring/Summer 2012, Scotch & Soda created all the must-haves items for your summer wardrobe, with four themes in mind. ‘Plage Privee’ consists of stylish suited looks for a sharp dressed summer style. New sophisticated interpretations give this ‘monsieur provocateur’ a retro edge with French seaside influences. Team relaxed beach pantalons with a tailored voile shirt, indigo bow-tie and espadrilles. This look is easy and chic, striking but simple in mineral colours and tones of white. The ‘Days off, we love Saturdays’-theme takes us back to simpler times, inspired by original workwear. These can’t-live-without basics give you that timeless and authentic look, perfect for a laid-back summer.
This leads the way into ‘Breton Behaviour’: an honest blue-white-red denim look with French and nautical influences. Combine a breton top with a cable knit cardigan and roll up those weathered denims to show off your striped socks. Laundered indigo looks are gently washed and faded for a rugged feel. Last but not least, there’s the colour blocking ‘Colour Collisions’ theme. A lively range of garments, tobe bought and worn together for an ultimate summer colour shock. Striped tees and polos are added to the collection in washed-out colours, and Scotch & Soda’s statement double layer tee is updated in many new tones. Even shorts and pants can be found in eye-popping designs and colours. The trick to keeping it fresh and fun, is to wear all your favourites at once.
Home Alone
By the name of Home Alone, Scotch & Soda continues to offer a wide range of high quality loungewear jersey pieces, designed to make men feel effortlessly cool and comfortable at home. From light weight sheer V-necks to soft jersey garments, Home Alone blends a contemporary style with the extra detailing that Scotch appreciates in vintage sweat wear. Balancing timeless aesthetics in a soft colour palette with tones of grays, sands, whites and blues. To dress you from head to toe, Scotch & Soda offers a wide range of new and updated accessories for Spring/Summer 2012. Keep an eye out for the leather wallets and iPad covers, linen scarfs and funkybow-ties. Not to forget the laptop cases, bracelets, espadrilles, straw hats, bags and much more...
Love,
Scotch
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Scotch R'belle Spring/Summer 2012
From the heart of Amsterdam, Scotch R’belle proudly presents its Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Adelicate and cool girls collection, designed with love, care and with the great attention to small detailsthat Scotch & Soda is known for. Scotch R’belle first launched for Spring/Summer 2011, and has sinceexpanded into a full-grown collection. Alongside the anticipated new items that the design team createseach season, R’belle sometimes winks to the ladies collection by featuring miniature versions ofMaison Scotch garments, with a fresh R’belle twist.
Highlights
For Spring/Summer 2012, Scotch R’belle designed everything a girl needs to look effortlessly cool thisseason, with four key themes in mind.‘Let’s go bananas!’ is all about eye-popping colours and fruity all-over printed beach pants, tops andjumpsuits. R’belle hops from island to island in her blocked leggings, vintage tees and sunhat, collectingtravel badges along the way. At the beach, she tops off her one-shoulder swimsuit with a sarongaround the waist.A ready-styled breton top with a Union Jack skirt and a R’belle bandana around her head; ‘The moon,the stars and the stripes’ is the theme for rock ‘n roll pirate girls. Leather and weathered army canvas inskirts, shorts and jackets meet soft-tone melange tees, topped of with shimmering glitters. For schooldays, this theme offers feminine alternatives to the classic baseball jackets, sweats and tees.For ‘The house of Byzantine indigo’, R’belle dives into a pool of denim blues, linen whites and bewilderedcolour washes. Indigo all-over prints, washed silks and vintage kaftans complete this denimmindedlook.Last but not least, Scotch R’belle offers a great tee collection by the name of ‘Sunken Treasure’,inspired by the mysterious depths of the ocean. Think mermaids, seahorses and washed-out colours.‘Sunken Treasure’ features jersey tops, chinos, boxy fitted sweats, dip-dyed wrap skirts and doublelayeredlacy tops. Complete the underwater look by wearing summery coloured gladiator sandals thatprotect you from the coral. Also, the biker jacket is reinvented with beautiful details like zippers, printsand coloured inserts. After all these discoveries, the girls deserve an afternoon off, floating around ontheir R’belle air beds...
Love,
Scotch R’belle
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Scotch Shrunk Spring/Summer 2012
From the heart of Amsterdam, Scotch Shrunk proudly presents its Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Anexciting boys collection, designed with love, care and with the great attention to small details thatScotch & Soda is known for. Alongside the anticipated new items that the design team creates eachseason, Shrunk sometimes winks to the mens collections by featuring miniature versions of Scotch &Soda garments, with a fresh Shrunk twist.
Highlights
For Spring/Summer 2012, Scotch Shrunk designed everything a boy needs to look effortlessly cool thisseason, with four key themes in mind.‘Let’s go bananas’ is all about tropical colour blocking and surfy summer tones, like Tahiti in the seventies.This theme offers comfortable zip-throughs, polkadot and jungle print swim shorts, slubby surfshirts and even beach towels.Take a leather jacket and cotton caban to hit the road with ‘The moon, the stars and the stripes’. Shrunkspices up all uniforms, from army outerwear to marine tops and midnight rider jackets. Camouflagecomes with a hint of ‘Aloha’ in oversized shorts; classics are redefined with with quirky college detailsand vintage treasures. Cargo shorts, ankle bandanas and Union Jacks show up in unexpected places, butalways with a rock ‘n roll edge.For ‘The house of Bryzantine indigo’, Shrunk dives into a pool of indigo blues and linen whites.Workwear-like tough jackets, laundered indigo knits and light-weight kaftans complete this deniminspiredlook.Last but not least, ‘Sunken Treasure’ is inspired by the mysteries of deep-sea life, bringing octopus teesin washed-out water colours and a soft-tone colour palette for shirts and chinos. This theme is not forthe faint-hearted, as deep-sea creatures may appear unexpectedly on socks and swim shorts. After allthese discoveries, the boys deserve a relaxing afternoon, floating around on their Scotch Shrunk airbeds...
Love,
Scotch Shrunk
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A'dams Blauw Maison Spring/Summer 2012
From the heart of Amsterdam, Maison Scotch proudly presents its third Amsterdams Blauw® denimcollection, entitled ‘The Great Escape’. A line of high quality denims, inspired by Japanese andAmerican denim esthetics, with a fresh twist. Maison Scotch likes to focus on the small details thatmake the big difference; the denims are so well-constructed, you could almost wear them inside-out.
Maison Scotch continues to seek inspiration from the refined Pariesiennes and their sophisticated senseof style. For ‘The Great Escape’ Spring/Summer 2012 collection, the design team imagined how theParisienne travels down under, to spend the summer with friends on the beaches of Melbourne,Australia. Here, her Paris fashion aesthetics meet with the eclectic beach girl style, fit for long bike ridesalong the shore, all-day breakfasts with friends and warm summer nights at the beach. This results in aneffortlessly cool summer collection of well-considered, carefully detailed denim-based garments.
Key fits this season are the Constructed Chino: a new tapered denim chino with inserted tapes at thefront, and the Marie Marine: a slim-fit double waistband pant with worker pockets and twisted sideseams, perfect to be worn with rolled up hems and a pair of flip-flops. Still at the core of theAmsterdams Blauw® collection are the best selling ladies fits Cinq-P, La Parisienne, Mademoiselle andRebelle, available in an array of fabrics and washes. Amsterdams Blauw® is particularly proud of itsSacre Bleu (‘holy blue’) wash, an absolute must-have fresh blue, and the Bondi Blue, which is ableached down version of the Sacre Bleu.
Besides bottoms, the Amsterdams Blauw® Spring/Summer 2012 collection offers a range ofhandpicked pieces for the essential denim wardrobe. The light-weight chambray denim Overall is easyto wear over a bikini this summer or with a tee. If this is too masculine for you, try the denim Jumpsuitwith a gathered neckline and tapered cropped legs. Another must-have is the denim bikini, which comesin a cute denim envelope, and the Quilted Worker Jacket, with all-over bandana print and lined withchambray on the inside. Furthermore, Amsterdams Blauw® Spring/Summer 2012 ‘The Great Escape’collection features denim shorts, beach pants, oversized tunics, cropped wide denim shirts, sleevelessdresses and much, much more.
Love,
Maison Scotch
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A'dams Blauw Scotch Spring/Summer 2012
From the heart of Amsterdam, Scotch & Soda proudly presents its third Amsterdams Blauw® denimcollection, entitled ‘The Longest Breakfast’. A line of high quality denims, inspired by Japanese andAmerican denim esthetics, but with its own fresh twist. Scotch & Soda likes to focus on the small detailsthat make the big difference; the denims are so well-constructed, you could almost wear theminside-out.
Last season, Amsterdams Blauw was inspired by the London Shoreditch guy. For ‘The LongestBreakfast’ Spring/Summer 2012 collection, the design team imagined how the London Shoreditch guytravels down under, for a relaxing summer in Melbourne. Here, his accordingly dressed style mixeswith the relaxed vibe of outdoor city life; all-day breakfasts with friends, bike rides through the city andnights at the beach. This results in a considered collection of carefully detailed denims in extraordinarywashes.
A key fit this season is the Selby: a new slim tapered denim chino style to be worn with white topsidersand a chambray shirt. Scotch also offers the Denim Chino Short: a cut-off pair of chinos done the denimway. Still at the core of the Amsterdams Blauw® collection are the best selling fits Ralston, Snatch andDean, available in an array of fabrics and washes. Amongst the extraordinary dark, medium and lightwashes, Scotch is particularly proud of the Blue Ray and Sax Wax washes. The Blue Ray is an intensered cast denim with a transparent coating that gives a brilliant purple cast, and the Sax Wax is a greatgreen cast denim with a mirror finish.
There is also a premium selection of denims within the Amsterdams Blauw® line, by the name of LOT22. This collection is specially laundered in Italy using the most premium fabrics and washed only byhand, LOT 22 is the denim laboratory for the design team. The Dean style continues to be thecornerstone of this collection, with innovation in fabric qualities, wash effects and hand repairs thisseason. Another very special LOT 22 experiment is the Selvedge Rail Bang: a radiant 14oz green castdry Japanese selvedge denim, not to be washed until summer 2013!
Besides bottoms, the Amsterdams Blauw® Spring/Summer 2012 collection offers a range ofhandpicked pieces for the essential denim wardrobe. Take the Railroad Jacket, a modern slim fittedwork-inspired denim blazer or the Ristretto Gilet, both complete with Japanese indigo pocket square.Furthermore, The Longest Breakfast collection features denim shirts, denim ties, slogan T-shirts andmuch more.
Love,
Scotch
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Amsterdams Blauw Spring/Summer 2012
Amsterdams Blauw® is the denim collection of the Amsterdam-based fashion brand Scotch & Soda.The name Amsterdams Blauw (or: Amsterdam Blue) is the colour of paint that was used in the GoldenCentury between 1500-1750 to paint Dutch porcelain. The striking blue colour was obtained by mixingindigo from China and Japan with an oil-based paint. Nowadays, this colour is still widely visible in thestreets of Amsterdam on house number plates and street signs.
Scotch & Soda Amsterdams Blauw® is an ambitious young denim project that draws inspiration fromAmerican and Japanese denim aesthetics. We’re constantly inspired by our great city Amsterdam,which allows us to be free in our approach to things. Amsterdams Blauw® wants to play the maverickcard and be the new and fresh alternative for the denim establishment; we like to portray the collectionas the challenger brand. After successfully launching the first mens denim collection forSpring/Summer 2011, Scotch & Soda now also holds Amsterdams Blauw® collections for women,boys and girls.
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Home Alone Spring/Summer 2012
Scotch & Soda proudly presents its fourth Home Alone capsule collection. A wide range of high qualityjersey pieces, designed to make men feel effortlessly cool and comfortable at home. Captured in anaffordable ‘near luxury’ home wear collection, Home Alone blends a contemporary style with the extradetailing that Scotch appreciates in vintage sweat wear. Balancing timeless aesthetics in a soft tonecolour palette, combined with tones of grays, sands, whites and blues.
At Scotch & Soda, we love to make great garments that suit every individual. We want people to lovetheir clothes and enjoy wearing them. Scotch & Soda products are of high quality, rich in detail andaffordable. The new Spring/Summer 2012 Home Alone collection features classic hooded sweats, deepcrew neck tees, as well as jogging shorts, chino sweat pants and long sleeve granddad tees. All itemscan be easily combined, just the way you like it. Scotch shaped Home Alone to be a no nonsensecollection, that girlfriends will love you for.
Though comfortable indoors, Home Alone is also stylish enough to be worn outside. Whether combinedwith a formal jacket and boots to pick up some groceries, or dressed down with a denim jacket andsneakers for a gym visit, there's no need for men to slip out of their favorite attire.Moving forward from the first Home Alone collection in Fall/Winter 2010/2011, Home Alone is to becontinued as a permanent part of the Scotch & Soda main collection. The longer the Home Alonegarments are worn, the better they will look and the harder they are to say goodbye to.
Enjoy,
Scotch
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Barfly
After 27 years of building and expanding their brand, the creative team at Scotch & Sodahas realized a long lived dream and proudly present their first perfume entitled BARFLY.The essence of Scotch & Soda, its desire of individuality and love of free spirits is nowtranslated into a fragrance.
Much like the clothes, the perfume has its own character and is full of details. The creativeteam had a strong idea about how Barfly should smell and the feeling it had to evoke termslike intense but simple, young and transparent.
As the scent develops from its fresh top notes of citrus-herb to the middle notes of lavenderand jasmine, mixed with outspoken components such as Sandal and Cedar wood, iteventually settles down to reveal its warm base notes of musk and Madagaskar Vanilla.Typical of Scotch & Soda’s design aesthetics, this product stands out by its individuality,not only by its extraordinary and surprising scent but also by its name and product design.With its no-nonsense bottle carefully selected through vintage archives and crafted top withthe fly logo embossed, Barfly is a truly special addition to the growing brand.
Barfly is available in Scotch & Soda stores and selected boutiques worldwide.
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New Website Germany
Scotch & Soda is excited to announce it has launched a German version of their website. The site offers all features in the German language, including collection previews, the worldwide store finder and regular blog updates. All incorporated into a design that navigates quick and easy for the user.
The lifestyle blog allows Scotch & Soda to post news updates and to share its likes of fashion, art and culture. In addition to the website, we keep in touch with our followers through a variety of social media. Scotch believes that online presence and the ability to reach a larger audience is both a necessity and natural progression for the growing brand.
Scotch & Soda collections are designed with the love of a true collector; we simply want people to love their clothes and enjoy wearing them. Scotch & Soda products are of high quality, rich in detail and affordable. The designers at Scotch spare no effort or expense at detailing and fine-tuning samples, all the way to the neatly finished interior of each garment.
Please visit our website at scotch-soda.com
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Scotch & Soda BEST fashion brand
Scotch & Soda would like to share the good news that we won the award for Best Fashion at the Sports- wear International Fashion Awards (SIFAs) on Tuesday 18 January. We kindly use this opportunity to thank all the voters for nominating us, and the jury for granting us the award. SIFA: 'Out of the five nominees (among them Isabel Marant, Markus Lupfer, Therese Rawsthorne and Adam by Adam Lippes) a jury of 18 internationally renowned retailers and buyers voted for Scotch & Soda for its vision, design, brand strength and potential.
"We are happy that Scotch & Soda is the Best Fashion winner for 2010. They bring together a perfect blend of cool sportswear design and brand image that is commercially extremely successful and therefore fits the needs of today's retail business", says Sabine Kühnl, Editor-in-Chief of Sportswear Interantional.
Some of the other winners were Vivienne Westwood for Lee in Best Denim, Adidas Originals vs. Burton in Best Sport/Street and Nike in Best Sneaker. Our design team attended the 10th edition of the Sportswear International Fashion Awards, taking place at the Berlin Ellington Hotel, just before the kick-off of Bread & Butter.
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Barfly
From vision to fragrance: the essence of Scotch in a bottle
27 years of building and expanding their brand the creative team at Scotch & Soda have realized a long lived dream and proudly present their first perfume entitled BARFLY. The essence of Scotch & Soda, its desire of individuality and love of free spirits is now translated into a fragrance.
Much like the clothes the perfume has its own character and is full of details. The creative team had a strong idea about how Barfly should smell and the feeling it had to evoke terms like intense but simple, young and transparent had to be translated into a scent.
As the scent develops from its fresh top notes of citrus-herb to the middle notes of lavender and jasmine mixed with outspoken components such as Sandal and Cedar wood, it eventually settles down to reveal its warm base notes of musk and Mada- gaskar Vanilla. Typical of Scotch & Soda's design aesthetics this product stands out by its individuality, not only by its extraordinary and surprising scent but also by its name and product design.
With its no nonsense bottle carefully selected through vintage archives and crafted top with the fly logo embossed Barfly is a truly special edition to their growing brand.
Barfly is available in Scotch & Soda stores and selected boutiques worldwide as of December 2010.
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Online Expansion
Since 1985 the Scotch & Soda brand has grown from strength to strength, with creativity and individuality as the keys to success, this Amsterdam fashion brand maintains its very own way of doing business. Making the jump to a more refined aesthetic with the utmost in high-quality production, Scotch & Soda has recently updated their web presence. The new website will include not only regular updates with their new fully integrated blog system but a full-fledged web store as well.
The website was already nominated for site of the day on TheFWA.com platform and irie.be design website. It is a brand experience website where the consumer can explore and find new information about the brand with every unique visit. The site features various important aspects of the Dutch brand, including a worldwide store finder list and a look into their 2010 Winter Collection look book that links directly to the web store. An impressive format that makes navigation reasonably easy.
The new lifestyle blog will talk about Scotch & Soda, Amsterdam and fashion and will be updated several times a week. It gives the brand the opportunity to have a voice and to show the consumer what Scotch & Soda considers cool and important on a regular basis. At the beginning of September, Scotch & Soda re-launched its web store with a new fresh look and up to date technology including Facebook connect and share. On the web store consumers can find more products, sizes and colors than in the stores offline.
Scotch & Soda believes that online presence and its ability to command to a much larger audience has become both a necessity and natural progression for the growing brand.
The website can be visited @ www.scotch-soda.com
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New York Store Opening
Since 1985 the Scotch & Soda brand has grown from strength to strength, with creativity and individuality as the keys to success, this Amsterdam fashion brand maintains its very own way of doing business.
Scotch & Soda celebrates an expansion of their acclaimed clothing brand with yet another retail space, this time a new flagship store in the heart of New York City. Bringing over the brand's signature style from Amsterdam to the US, the opening of Scotch & Soda New York City marks yet another key chapter in the Scotch success story.
The new retail venture for the Dutch brand plays home to a wide range of items from the collection, and also offers for the first time in the USA Maison Scotch, which is Scotch & Soda's popular female collection, already a huge hit in Europe. The shop does an impressive job of translating the brand's vision into a beautifully designed space with sleek glass cabinetry and warm wood decor.
The opening of the store was marked by an official US launch party on 21st September 2010 which received positive reviews from both the guests and the press.
If in town, be sure to check out the store in person.
Scotch & Soda
273 Lafayette Street
NY 10012 New York
United States
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