Rochambeau in Kenton Magazine

http://kentonmagazine.com/kenton_editorials/dusk/

GER: To Be Separate Premiere Tuesday Oct 18th

One of the models we cast for our S/S 2012 presentation is not your ordinary model. Ger was a child of war born in Sudan. He has documented his life and will be showing his documentary tomorrow night. Come out and support a good cause!

THE EVENT:

Ger: To Be Separate*
a film by Award winning Kenyan filmmaker *Wanuri Kahiu*

Tuesday, October 18th,
6pm-9pm
*CHINATOWN BRASSERIE* (downstairs)
380 Lafayette Street




You’ve probably watched “Lost Boys of Sudan” or “God Grew Tired of Us” in theaters and you cried your heart out and subconsciously still wonder, how the hell are these lost boys from Sudan adapting to the American life-style?

Well, it’s your lucky day because they are doing fine, well, at least we know one of them is and his name is Ger Duany. No, he wasn’t in either films mentioned above, but, he was one of the child soldiers and lost boys who fled the war in the formerly united Sudan and walked for miles to get to a refugee camp in Ethiopia then Kenya, and after many struggles he was one of the lucky ones that made it out on a plane to America.

In America, he encountered many obstacles but fate led him to his debut on Hollywood's silver screen where he played a refugee in the movie “I Heart Huckabees”. Director David O. Russell said he wanted someone who endured the real life experience of being a refugee to play the role. Soon after, Ger met supermodel Tyson Beckford, who saw Ger's modeling potential which opened doors to a modeling career and a shoot with photographer Norman Watson and many other photographers.

And so during all these years and the distance he lost touch with his family and land, but in January 2011, he hopped onto another plane this time back to South Sudan to vote for independence. And in July 2011, South Sudan finally got its well-deserved freedom and Ger was there to celebrate his new nation's independence, search for his family, and help build South Sudan.

Awesome right?!? Don’t you think this story would make a heartfelt real-life documentary? The kind that would complete the Lost Boys of Sudan trilogy that we got going on here? Well, the good news is that award winning Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu (From a Whisper, Pumzi ) has been documenting Ger’s life for the past year and she has captured some wonderful footage and the documentary is in the final stage of production. We're very close to completing this unique documentary and like any creatively awesome and life changing endeavor, we need moolah to finish this project. So we’re knocking at your door and hoping you’ll pledge and donate what you can to finish the editing of this unique story. We’re counting on you to help us see this through!

Thank you.

Link here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1200904186/ger-to-be-seperate?ref=search

Gavin Rossdale Wearing Rochambeau in YRB Magazine

Rochambeau Dinner and Screening of Film Paralymbic by Hugh Lippe

Rochambeau in Wall Street Journal article about Jenne Lombardo

Rochambeau in NYMAG.COM

ROCHAMBEAU MENTION IN NY TIMES

DEE AND RICKY REPRESENT

Rochambeau in OPEN LAB Magazine

Jenne Lombardo and W Hotels Put Us On.....WSJ Article

"Putting the Hot Back in Hotel"

A lobby full of trendsetters can make a hotel chic, but luring them in is easier said than done. W Hotels is looking to a fashion insider to help it recapture cutting-edge cachet. The hotel company today will name Jenné Lombardo to a job it calls "fashion director."



At work behind the scenes, Ms. Lombardo already has chosen six emerging designers to be backed by W Hotels next month at New York Fashion Week. The labels aren't widely known outside fashion circles but they have been showered with awards by the cognoscenti: Juan Carlos Obando, Nomia, Bibhu Mohapatra, Michael Angel, Rochambeau and Electric Feathers.

read the full article here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576514293384502896.html?KEYWORDS=JENNE+LOMBARDO

"Now, it’s Lombardo’s turn to make some noise. She hasn’t wasted time making moves. Already, she has selected a promising group of six designers for this year’s Fashion Next program, including Juan Carlos Obando, Nomia, Bibhu Mohapatra, Michael Angel, Rochambeau, and Electric Feathers."





Read the whole article here:

http://www.style.com/stylefile/2011/08/w-hotels-fashion-next-jenne-lombardo/

ROCHAMBEAU SHOWING AT MBFW

Email inquiries@rochambeau.us.com to request tickets for our presentation

YRB MAG Sam Ronson in Rochambeau

Rochambeau featured in YRB Magazine on Samantha Ronson shoot.

http://yrbmagazine.com/2011/08/cover-samantha-ronson/

Wasted Youth shoot on the Fashionisto

Rochambeau in West to East Magazine

CARBON iV BLOG

Check out the site here: http://www.carbon-vi.com

Great Blog post on JAMOOLLIFE.JP

Check out the full coverage here:http://jamoollife.jp/collection/2011/03/rochambeau-2011-autumnwinter-m.php

ROCHAMBEAU Fashion week Dinner by Wayne Sterling The Imagist

One's Miss Fanny and Miss Ellie at Rochambeau/RJW's Miss Lily's dinner: Image via poplipps.com

"New York Fashion Week has a center and that center is the machine. It gets so loud during Fashion Week you can literally hear it vibrating under the aspalt and concrete. The designers with their power stylists in their studios frantically fitting and refitting, recutting, rethinking , while the sewing machines hum and the VP waits downstairs, in vain, for the delivery of the shoes. And the models? For the models and their poor bookers, it is the mind numbing parade of casting-call back-fitting-confirmation-hair test-cancellation-make-up test-confirmation and then finally the 10 minute show . I like the machine. It is a hard working machine. It sucks us all up into the vortex of the backstage and the front row and the catwalk. It sizzles and crackles and buzzes and you run even though you're not sure why. Why do the kids run when one show ends? Does it make you look important to run for the exits before the house lights go up? I like the machine with its familiar hum. But this season something caught my eye. The parties at the peripheries. Not the power parties you see on style.com but the parties on the fringes powered by people not necessarily in fashion, but the species well stocked with cash, trying to get close to the heat and hum of the machine.

"I usually don't like other people's parties in New York. In Paris I can let it go, because hedonism is a cause and I respect the commitment of the French to social grandeur. This is the cliche you wish for as a tourist and you will get it in spades at Dave's , at Caviar Kaspia , in the courtyard of Costes for lunch. In Kingston or Santo Domingo I can sweat and not care because no-one's looking and I am a refuge from the Empire of Image . But I've recently not liked the clubs of New York. Not The Boom Boom room. Not The Rose Bar. Not that new thing at The Mondrian...frankly nothing since Beatrice Inn. And then Weds night Josh and Laurence (who do the men's line Rochambeau) call up and say I should come check out Serge Becker's and Binn's new thing, Miss Lily's for the Rochambeau post-presentation dinner they were throwing with an outfit called RJW.

Miss Lily's has a Jamaican theme and Josh and Laurence think perhaps there's some kind of organic synergy there. I sigh , expecting a bad Negril redux . Walking down West Houston in the chill wind, I stop at a deli and grab a protein bar...just in case. At the nondescript door of Miss Lilly's is a very severe doorman with a very short-list. I dip inside and stop in dis-orientation. Like one of those humble restaurants in a Half Way Tree shopping plaza with the little orange formica tables and the stiff little plastic seats...much like a little Jamaican food shop at the corner of Nostrand and Prospect Place in Crown Heights where the customers know the exact price of chicken per pound ...Miss Lilly's is the simulacrum that got it down. The Pickapeppa saunce....The scotch bonnet pepper in the oxtail dish.... Hellshire fish.... Vibez Kartel on the soundtrack...Everything I've glossed over in all those years has resurfaced as the definition of au courant Downtown Cool. Pat McGrath will live and all those kids, Scott Lipps, Bianca Kosoy, (the fetching Creative Director at Equinox) Richie Akiva, Mark Squiers with the required piles of models, all the lovely refugees from The Empire Of Image, are already in the mix! I have to giggle to myself."

Thank you for the lovely evening Wayne!!!

check out The Imagist here: http://theimagist.com/taxonomy/term/8595

INVITE LOVE FROM REFINERY 29

INVITE LOVE FROM PAPER MAG

How cool is this invite for the Rochambeau menswear show? I love the peel-off action (and no, it does not reveal a nude model underneath). Rochambeau, a chic-classic line designed by Parsons grads Michael Venker, Joshua Cooper and Laurence Chandler, is definitely a label to watch. They were chosen by MAC Cosmetics and Milk Studios to hold their debut fashion show. Though relative fashion world newbies, they are already a favorite of Michael Pitt and Jared Leto.

ROCHAMBEAU IN NY MAG THE CUT @ CAPSULE TRADESHOW PARIS

Check the full article here:
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2011/02/ slideshow_menswear_trends_at_c.html