I can imagine Ed and Christian wanted to hook-up and gang-bang the shit out of trashy slogans, bright colors, and Japanese inspired designs for years, but both of them thought that the other one wouldn't be interested. Finally one plucked up the courage, called the other and said: "Let's unite to create some of the worst clothes in existence, to be worn by some of the shittiest people on Earth!" APC/Olympia de Tan
APC have always had a reputation for producing simple, but extremely well made basics for both men and women. Why the fuck then did they think it was a good idea to let Olympia de Tan plaster some lame pub sign on the back of a perfectly good denim jacket? "The heart is a lonely hunter," and so is the 35-year-old My Chemical Romance fan wearing this to biker clubs. Armani/ Reebok
Presumably, this bizarre futuristic collaboration is for men so busy and high-powered that they haven't got time to change into gym shoes before they play squash. On that basis, I'm assuming these are very expensive. Supreme/Budweiser
From the rudest shop in the world and the shittiest beer in the world comes a shirt so ugly and crass that even NASCAR fans would reject it. That might explain why all the Supreme stockists or shops that I've been to in the last few months still have one of those shirts lingering like a corpse. Disney Couture/Tom Binns
This really creeped me out because it's so clearly the sort of necklace a rich pedophile would buy to entice his next victim. Sorry Disney, I know that's not the market you were going for with your weird expensive jewelry range. Look at it though - can you imagine an adult woman wearing this? It's basically Happy Meal toys bound together with a thick gold chain. Quinze Milan/Eastpak
Does anyone remember the Raf Simons/Eastpak collaboration? That was super nice, as were the Rick Owens and Christopher Shannon collabs. So why decide to make the sofa equivalent of huge, fuck off red hummer and hope that people are in to it? They should have called this the Laz-E-Boy mk. 2, but I guess there would have been copyright issues there. It looks like the perfect stoner sofa – you'd never need to move because everything would be packed away in all those handy little pockets surrounding you, although the problem with that is there are way too many pockets to remember where you put your stuff. Also, that bright red material would so kill your vibe, or whatever.
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Hmm, how can we rip people off even more for something that they can just get from a tap? How about we get Paul Smith to scribble on the bottle. To be fair the bottle does look pretty and you could probably use it afterwards as a vase or something, but I really don't see the point in this whole deal though. This must be aimed at the most insanely small market; Paul Smith and the Evian CEO is my guess.
If there was ever to be some sort of biological terrorism attack, at least now you can be gasping for air with the LV logo plastered all over your face.
These are Patrick Bateman's favorite designers, which must mean that they're the apex of good yuppie taste. When both brands got together though they designed a suit for kid's entertainers.
I love Opening Ceremony. I used to buy whatever I could off eBay even if I knew I wouldn't wear it and that it would eventually end up back on eBay, but it didn't matter because it was Opening Ceremony. Then I went to New York and found their store and saw these shoes and I just felt sad. I'm not a girl, I don't know a whole lot about girl's shoes, but I do know that I would never walk around in tie-dyed platforms with soles made from braided hair.
Like APC, you can normally rely on Fred Perry to release simple but stunning pieces but this is stunning for all the wrong reasons. Fair play to Fred Perry though, out of all the collaborations they've ever done, this is the only horrible one. They even managed to make Paul Weller look good, so Christ knows how this slipped through the net.
The boot itself actually is OK as it's basically a normal Doc Marten with a few holes in it. But, the "Jean Paul Gaultier" stamp is ridiculous.JAMIE CLIFTON