Alex Grant for The Style Cooperative: The Look Book

We here at The Style Cooperative are excited to announce a project that has been brewing with the voice behind one of our favorite menswear blogs, Alex Grant.

The self-proclaimed prepster and New England sailor helped design two ties that are inspired by just that; nautical stripes and all in Navy and Chocolate. Both will be available in early March. Until then, more images from the look book after the jump.

Sir & Madame Spring Lookbook

Sir & Madame, fellow Chicago lifestyle brand, and awesome team of stylish folks dropped the lookbook today for their Spring '11 collection.

Let's pause momentarily for some of my editorial:

-The riding theme is so inspired, particularly the contrast color riding pants.

-That weekender bag is awesome, I hope you guys don't just look over it where it's featured.

-I'm so glad Chicago has something like this to call its own

-A BOW TIE FROM THE STYLE COOPERATIVE IS STYLED ON A WOMAN, so I'm doing a little happy dance at my desk as I write this

Take a look at the whole book, lust over everything, and click your way over to the Sir & Madame shop. It'll be good for your health and happiness. Trust me, I'm a doctor.

Behind the Scenes: Holiday Book Edition

Now that you all (hopefully) have checked out the Holiday book we worked to bring you last week, I wanted to play show and tell a bit and share some "making of" type pics from some of the time spent working on it. All courtesy of our friends over at Dynastee.

Work and play, on the same day.

The Style Cooperative - Holiday 2010

The Style Cooperative Holiday Lookbook is here!

This is the biggest and best lookbook we've developed to date at The Co-Op. This is just in time for the holidays, so turn on some festive music and take a look. 

From us, to you. Images after the jump!

Holiday Lookbook Mood Board

I've been ultra busy working on getting a beautiful presentation of our Holiday looks together. We are planning on shooting veeeeery soon, and everything is shaping up to be exciting. 

As a little peek into what we've got in the works, here's a peek at the mood board. Happy Friday!

A Transitional Time

Hey dudes. Things are really picking up here over at The Co-Op. We're updating all things digital for your lovely consumption and building some beautiful new goods. Just can't wait to share! 

This is the first photo set we've done since I did you-know-what, so I hope you all likey.

The look I've got going on today is actually one that I styled for my evening at the opening show for Chicago's Fashion Focus (sans 14" bow attached to my head).  The look was pretty popular, and landed me as the feature image in Ebony Magazine's Style section and pictured on NBC Chicago. Whoa boy!

I'm wearing my current absolute favorite piece from The Co-Op. It's a winterized Wyly top in white jacquard.  The material is ultra heavy and gives structure to an otherwise flowing top.

And the texture is out of control amazing. Not just because I picked it out either... it really is fantastically soft and roomie.

Oh, and of course there's the back buttons.  This time around, it's paired with gold dome buttons.  Luxe, yes? And somehow perfect to dress up with a suiting skirt, or down with a pair of boyfriend jeans and booties.

And the line it creates with the body with a fitted bottom... it really has me hooked as my fall/winter go-to.

For Fall, Pt. 1: Women

New York Fashion Week is in full force, and while we're looking at Spring looks by all the designers, the reality of it all is that we are still thoroughly in summer weather in many parts of the country, and need to focus on the cooling temperatures for our more immediate purposes.  

So let's talk fall in a very need-to-know way. No fluff, just pretty pictures.

TopShop

Maxi lengths

Forever 21

Menswear accessories

J. Crew

Texture on texture

TopShop

Capes

Opening Ceremony

Cold weather cropped tops

Sneak Peek: Fall Looks

When I originally shot this outfit a week or 2 ago, I hadn't planned on it becoming more than just a blog post.

But then I realized that more could become of it.

Maybe even an entire themed look book for fall.

So while I figure and finalize looks that will make the cut, I thought I'd share some additional images that didn't quite make it to the last post.

Hope you like!

I Don't Wanna Grow Up

I'm not so sure kids' clothes were this cool in the early 90s. Maybe clothes in general weren't...

CrewCuts by J.Crew

Here's the really embarrassing secret that I'll only let you in on: I can still fit most kids' clothing. In fact, my fall pea coat that I get lots of compliments on is from the kids' section!

But you didn't hear that from me.