Visvim Patrician ¥60,900

I’m not entirely how they do it. I imagine some sort of Yakuza backing. Men in dark colored suits in equally dark tinted shades and cars. Their only objective, to protect all media data regarding the Visvim AW 2010 collection.

Perhaps formulating conspiracy theories might be jumping the gun here, but one can’t help but wonder. Other than the one of Hiroki Nakamura posing smugly in his tent for Diane Pernet, I’ve seen nothing else online of that private viewing in Paris. It having been days, I’m starting to wonder how tightly tucked that media blanket on the collection was.

Even with the most hush-hush of things, there’ll always be a leak. That’s how liquid media and data is now a day. Its almost unavoidable to keep anything secret. But somehow, five days on the wonderful people working for Visvim have kept everything steadily under wraps.

No Myspace-esque photo of people in the venue. No grainy camera phone renditions of shoes to be released. Nothing. This is leaving me torn, not knowing whether I should feel impatient or amazed.

As a consolation though with things, photos of their SS 2010 collection that is primed for release in the next couple of days is already leaking its way into the internet. A sleeker version of the Virgils, denim-made Abarth Moccasins, and interesting shirts have all got me in a state of.. “that’s interesting, but you wont catch me raving about it just yet.”

On first look, a lot of it doesn’t stir the immediate urge to start writing checks. Not to say that all of it was relatively mundane, but with the first batch of releases, it was pretty darn close to being called that. But as with all collections, there’s always this one piece that just turns it all around.

Brogues have been a growing interest of mine. Possibly an off spring of some drug lord Havana like semiotic, spliced with images of Tommy Gun toting mafiosos, I’ve been wanting to find a pair that fit the bill for me, cue the Patricians photographed above.

Coming finally in all white leather, as any shoe this pretty should, I’m left hopeful and optimistic. Sure, it might take a while before anything Visvim AW 2010 to be leaked, but judging by their SS 2010 releases, it’ll all be more than fine.

Hiroki Nakamura and Diane Pernet @ Visvim AW2010 Presentation by Shoji Fujii, via ASVOF.

Visvim is as premium a label as they could possibly come. The brand dictates itself a long a belief that is essentially Japanese to its very core. Sparing no expense to guarantee that each item is made the best imaginable way possible, It’s a very zen like approach that unfortunately makes for terribly high price tags.

Boots for eight hundred dollars, and a flight jacked for a couple hundred over a thousand. Its no wonder that the tug of war of these two factors give the label its own share of cult like fans, and people who think it’s plainly absurd. I though find myself at the unfortunate predicament of falling under the former.

For the fans, I’m sure you’ve seen that interesting interview of Hiroki Nakamura on Youtube. Yes, the one with the husky chain smoked voice as an interviewer and him looking a bit like he’s had a gram too many of hurry-up.

The trademark voice belongs to Diane Pernet of the highly popular fashion blog, A Shaded View on Fashion. Putting a face to the name, she’s the one pictured above, interviewing Hiroki Nakamura at his ultra top secret A/W 2010 Presentation in Paris.

Other than the photo of him ironically chilling in a sleeping bag and tent, probably lined and made constructed with the most expensive kind of Goretex possible, these, 2 other photos, and an inkling of a write-up are the only one’s you’ll find online of the presentation.

Words like “inspired by an alpine mountain trip” and “wicked hiking boots to the dandyish mountain climbing suit” don’t really provide much to even pretend to imagine. Thankfully though comes the promise of some pending resolve as a new video interview is coming “in the next few days.”

I’ll probably post it, the minute it comes up, that or you can keep an eye on ASVOF, which other than the promise of the interview, provides an interesting insider’s look on the fashion industry in Paris.

And judging by the past stuff Visvim has come up with and the knack for the outrageous of Hiroki Nakamura, it may not be something new, but probably something worth losing a couple hours of sleep over.