text: "Above All" Colossians 3:12-15 12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. (ESV) If you were here last week, you remember I told you that an easy way to understand the whole Book of Colossians is to really think of it as a theological episode of the television show, ―What Not to Wear.‖ In ―What Not to Wear‖ they take a woman who is deemed by someone to be a fashion nightmare. They write a letter to Clinton and Stacy, the hosts of the show and determine, ―Yes, this women is a fashion nightmare. We need to intervene.‖ They go in and tell her who she is and what she should be, and then they begin to do two things. They begin to go through her wardrobe and tell her what not to wear which in most cases is everything in her wardrobe. ―You shouldn't wear these things.‖ And then they take other things and say, ―You should wear these things. With your personality and your body type and your hair type and all these things, certain things go with that and certain things don't go with that.‖ At the end of the show the woman is always beautiful. In the Book of Colossians Paul is basically doing the same thing. He goes in and diagnoses the Colossians. ―Here's who you are. You're broken and alienated from Jesus because of your sin. You're wearing very ugly clothes right now. Your own clothes are as filthy rags. But here's the good new of the Gospel: Jesus came and when He died on the cross, He took your dirty clothes, your filthy rags and put them on Himself and gave you His robes of righteousness.‖ In other words, He exchanges wardrobes with you. He gives you His goodness and takes all of your badness. After that, what should you do? Paul says, ―Well, here's what you do. Here are the things you should not wear and here are the things you should wear.‖ Here are the things that go with that outfit Jesus has given you and here are things that don't go with the outfit that Jesus has given you. Last week we talked about what doesn't go with that outfit, what not to wear. Remember what Paul said, what doesn't go with this outfit, this righteousness of Jesus, is first of all, sexual immorality and then he worked it all the way back to idolatry. Then Paul said, ―The next thing that doesn't go is anger, wrath, malice, all of these things.‖ He worked that all the way up to foul language. Those just don't look right with the outfit you're wearing if you are a Christian. Foul language had absolutely nothing to do with cussing. Foul language, at the end of the day, at least according to Paul, is when you trash-talk other people, when you gossip about other people, when you complain about other people and don't talk to that person. That is much worse than cussing. Am I advocating cussing? No. But what I'm telling you is that Paul said is, ―That's not your biggest problem.‖ Last week you'll remember he says, ―Don't lie to one another.‖ Then it culminates when he says, ―Here in this place there is neither Jew nor Greek, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian or Scythian.. But all is Christ and Christ is in all.‖ The reason Paul is telling us that we need to put on certain clothes and take off other clothes is because the ultimate goal is not just reconciliation with God, but reconciliation with each other. The kingdom of God is sort of like a party. In order to go to the party you have to be wearing the right clothes. Paul says, ―The only way we can pull this party off and make it a success is if everyone is wearing the right clothes, and the party is going to have people from everywhere. It's going to have Jews and Greeks, circumcised, uncircumcised, black, white, male, female. They're all going to be in the room, and only if they are wearing the appropriate garments are things going to work. So he told us what garments won't work in order to build community. Today he's going to tell us what garments do and what we should put on. We're going to look at three things this morning. We're going to look at the priority of grace. We're going to look at the product of grace, and the third thing we're going to look at is the peace of grace. Let's look first at the priority of grace. In verse 12 Paul says, 12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience (ESV) Paul wants to tell us what we should put on – what enables community. What is the first accessory that goes with the righteousness of Christ? He says, ―Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved.‖ You can't go anywhere until you start there. That's the priority of grace. What is Paul saying then? He's saying to the church the same thing he said to Sermon by Rev. Tommy Allen Page 1 August 2, 2009 Israel, by the way. The language he uses here is the same language that Moses used of Israel, and Moses used it of Israel because God had chosen them out of everyone else. A couple of things are going on here. For one, Paul is inferring that the church is now the new Israel, that the church has not necessarily replaced Israel, but the church now is Israel. Remember, there is neither Jew nor Greek here. Israel should be brought in to the extent that they trust in Jesus. But more than that, the priority of grace is just this. In the first few words he says, ―Put on then as God's chosen ones.‖ Some translations say, ―as God's elect.‖ Paul says the basis of getting along, the basis of humility, compassion, kindness— all of these things—is grace. And the foundation of grace is just this, that God chose you, you did not choose God. There is nothing good about you that would impress God. In fact, not only did God choose you because you weren't that great, but God chose you because of how bad you were because the worse you are the better He looks in His grace. The deeper your sin, the more magnificent is His grace when He is shown as the One who takes it on Himself and forgives it. Paul says, ―As God's chosen ones, holy (and holy in the Old Testament and here means ―set apart‖) God came to you. You'll remember that every now and then I'll say a statement like this, ―God always initiates with sinners.‖ Have you ever heard me say that? Every week, don't I? God always initiates. God chooses whom He will and He sets them apart for His purpose. He says, ―Put on then as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved.‖ Beloved means that you are the object of God's love. Why does God set His love upon you? Let me give you a hint why He sets His love upon you. Let me read to you the same language as you see in Deuteronomy chapter 7. This is Moses talking to Israel. He says, 6 "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (ESV) Why did God choose Israel? It wasn't because they were the greatest of nations, it was because they were the smallest. It wasn't because they had the biggest and best of everything, it was because they had nothing. Why? Because the Lord loved them. The question is, ―Why did the Lord choose you? Why does the Lord draw you or me in? Is it because of how good you are?‖ It's not. It's because He has chosen to love you. That's the foundation of grace. That's the priority of grace. Without that all the rest of it doesn't make sense because if you understand that you've come to the table with nothing, that you brought nothing, and that the only reason you have a relationship with God (assuming you do) is because God saw fit to come to you and open your eyes and draw you unto Himself. How could there be any room for pride in that? How could there be any room for dissention? Paul says that that's who you are. You should look this way. How could you not? You should have compassion and be kind and everything else. How could you not? I know I've told you this story before. What's interesting to me is that Presbyterians are the ones who historically have embraced this more than anyone else. You might have heard the language of ―reformed theology.‖ Reformed in my theology‖ means is that you believe that God initiates with sinners, that you had brought nothing to the table. This is everything that I preach each week. Presbyterians have historically been the ones who champion that. And yet Presbyterians have historically been the ones who have been the least compassionate, least meek, least gentle. Why? How can you be the ones who champion a certain theology and yet, on the other hand, embody what is the opposite of what the byproduct should be? The answer is because oftentimes we know our theology, but we don't experience it. Have you experienced the grace of God? If you experience God's grace rather than just know it, it changes your life. It's sort of like the difference between knowing the words of a song and knowing the music. Do you know the music of the Gospel? It reminded me of this story as I was thinking about it this morning. When I was in seminary I was working for a Presbyterian church, and the pastors of a very charismatic denomination began taking a few classes with R. C. Sproul. One thing led to another and all of a sudden they understood grace. They understood that they were totally unable to come to Jesus in and of themselves, and that God had chosen and initiated. And it changed everything. I remember these pastors having a meeting with my pastors. I was an intern so I got to be in the room. They were talking about issues of worship. At one point the head guy from the charismatic side said, ―Given what you guys know about your theology how could you not dance in worship? You guys don't even raise your hands. Is it not even important enough? If you really understand what this means how could you not be excited?‖ That's the point here. The context isn't worship but the context rather is compassion, humility, meekness, and gentleness. Given what you know of your theology how could you not be compassionate and meek and gentle? If you're a Christian you're almost saying by claiming to be a Christian that you have Sermon by Rev. Tommy Allen Page 2 August 2, 2009 actually experienced those things that Paul is admonishing you to live out. If you're a Christian, what that means is that you've experienced the compassion of God. The King James translates it literally. It means, ―bowels of mercy.‖ God has shown compassion on you. You've experienced the humility of God as you see Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity, become a man and be obedient even to death on a cross. You see the gentleness and meekness of Jesus as He gently calls you and says, ―Please come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.‖ If you are not a Christian here today, that is yours for the taking. Would you take it? The next place Paul goes from the priority of grace is basically the product or the byproducts of grace. It's really interesting what the byproducts of grace are. If you understand that it's God who chose you and you didn't choose Him then you're now compassionate and meek and gentle. What does that look like in the life of the church? Notice what Paul says. 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. (ESV) This surprised me this week when I was studying this. When Paul says, ―bearing with one another,‖ that means in Greek something like ―a grudging acceptance of someone's differences.‖ What's Paul's point here? The beautiful thing about the Bible is that it's realistic. Paul says, ―The first outworking of grace is that you're able to bear with, you're able to grudgingly accept things about someone else that bother you. You're not willing to vilify them or break community.‖ Or are you? It's interesting, a lot of people leave churches because they're unwilling to bear with this person or that person or the pastor or the elders or something. Paul says the first outworking, the first byproduct of grace is that you're able to bear with people who are different than you. Why? Because if you really understand grace you know that that person is not the only one with issues, that you have your own issues. Inasmuch as the other person bothers you, what grace says is, ―Tommy, you like woodworking?‖ ―Yeah.‖ ―Got a log for you to work on. It's in your eye, dude.‖ Jesus said, ―Take the log out of your own eye before you take the splinter out of someone else's.‖ Paul says, ―Grudgingly bear with other people who are different.‖ I remember the best marriage advice that Judy and I got was from a guy named Ron Brown. He was a campus minister. I think he took us both separately and said to us, ―Tommy, Judy, what I want you to do before you really jump into this, is to think of three things that you can't stand about the other person. Ask yourself, ‗If these three things never change, am I going to be able to live with them for the rest of my life? Do I still want to go through with the marriage?'‖ Why did he ask that question? It's because all of us have issues and they may or may not get better over the course of our life. And even if they do get better over the course of our life they may not get that much better. I felt sorry for Judy during that time because she had such a hard time coming up with three. [laughter] Actually, I felt bad for her that she had such a hard time narrowing it down to three. But the point is if you really understand grace you realize that other people need it as much as you do. Then Paul does something interesting because he addresses conflict here, and Paul gives a different option for conflict than Jesus does. What Jesus said, ―If you have something against your brother, what should you do? Go tell him. Go confront your brother and if he repents you've won him and if he doesn't, then take two more and tell him again. If he doesn't repent then take the whole church and tell him again and if he doesn't repent then have nothing to do with him.‖ Paul gives another option. Both of them are appropriate, by the way. Paul's option is one that we almost never think of because it's right there in front of our face. Notice what he says. 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you (ESV) Is that a novel concept or what? If you've a complaint against someone else, forgive it. Those of you who have kids, tell your child, ―Johnny, you need to forgive your sister.‖ Well, if Johnny has no reason to forgive, why would he? But Paul does something here. He says, ―Forgive just as the Lord has forgiven you.‖ What does forgiveness mean? Forgiveness means to pay someone else's bill. Paul is admonishing us here. He says, ―If you really understand grace you're willing to pay someone else's bill. They've offended you and instead of exacting justice from them, instead of exacting their pound of flesh, what you say is, ―I will pay that bill. I'm going to eat it this time.‖ What enables you to do that is the cross. You look at the cross and say, ―At the cross Jesus paid my bill. If Jesus paid my bill how can I not pay this small bill? If Jesus paid everything for me, how can I not give a pittance to overlook this complaint?‖ It's amazing to me if you look at I Corinthians chapter 6 where Paul is addressing lawsuits among believers, and you get the sense that the whole church is just in a tizzy and wrapped around the axle and basically having lawsuits against one another. They're hiring secular lawyers, if you will, and they're going crazy. Paul gives them this advice in the form of a question. ―Why not be wronged? Is the whole church's Sermon by Rev. Tommy Allen Page 3 August 2, 2009 health, is the whole church's fitness worth the fact of your being right?‖ Do you know how many people have been killed just so one person can be right? And at the end of the day people say, ―You're right‖ and you've lost everything. It reminded me of the movie, ―Flash of Genius.‖ Have It was just out. It was Greg Kinnear, and it was about the guy who invented windshield wipers. The movie was billed as this underdog story where the little guy takes on the big guy and wins. I watched it and it was one of the most depressing things I've ever seen in my life because the little guy, Greg Kinnear, did take on the big guy—the Ford Motor Company—for about 20 years and at the end of it, the little guy won the lawsuit and in the process of winning the lawsuit. But he lost his wife, he lost his children, he lost his friends, he lost everything he had just to be able to say, ―I was right.‖ The point here that Paul would say is that sometimes it's wrong to be right. Sometimes you must simply forgive. If you're a human being and you're sitting in this room and you have family members and friends, you need to hear that. Sometimes it is wrong to be right. That's the product of grace. How do you do that? What's the peace of grace? Let me finish up with this. 14 15 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. (ESV) Paul says, ―And above all put on love which binds everything together.‖ Last week we looked at the fact that you can't break commandments two through ten without also breaking the first commandment, to have no other gods than God. In the same way here Paul says, ―You can't obey any of these admonitions to be compassionate, loving, forgiving, and all these unless you actually obey the greatest commandment which is to love the Lord your God, to love your neighbor as yourself. All these things, love binds them all together.‖ The language there is like a huge belt, or as I thought of it this morning, have you ever seen the television commercial for the ―Snuggie‖? It says, ―Trouble using the remote control? Trouble answering your phone? Get the Snuggie.‖ The Snuggie is a blanket that covers everything but you can put your arms through it and still work and move with it on. That's what love is. Love is the Snuggie that covers everything but as it covers everything it enables you to do what you need to do, namely to be at peace with one another. He says, ―Let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts.‖ He's not talking about the ―peace which passes all understanding‖ which you see in Philippians. He literally means the peace which Christ achieved to rule in your hearts. Or let the peace that Christ achieved be the umpire. Let's say you're having a conflict with another member in the church and you sit down to talk about this conflict. Before you talk about the conflict you look to the umpire and the umpire is the peace which Christ has achieved. You look again to the cross because at the cross what you see is the hostility between God and man being paid for. Christ has achieved peace there. Christ has achieved reconciliation there. The peace of Christ is now the umpire for every other conflict that you have. You were completely alienated and hostile to God and Jesus came and died on your behalf and now you sit across from someone else and you're going to confront them about the fact that they sat in your pew last weekend. There's nothing more frustrating than someone else sitting in your pew. I know that. I used to sit there. But you sit across from them and before you lay into them about sitting in your pew, you look up at the cross, the peace that Christ has accomplished, is the umpire of this game. When you look at the umpire you know what it makes me think? ―I don't even need to play the game.‖ When you look at the umpire you should be saying, ―You win because of what Jesus has done for me.‖ Unless you understand that, you can't have peace with other people. The last thing Paul says here sounds like he's talking to children. He says, ―And be thankful.‖ He just sort of throws it in there. Be thankful. Really he's bringing things full circle because thankfulness is basically appreciation for something you couldn't provide for yourself. If you understand that what Jesus has given you you couldn't provide for yourself, it will change the way you interact with every person every single day of your life. Think about that. Sermon by Rev. Tommy Allen Page 4 August 2, 2009


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Michael Iaconelli began the Bassmaster Memorial by fishing a number of patterns and he met mixed results.
Iaconelli's two-day total means little heading into the third day of action here in northeast Texas because his weight, along with those of the 11 other elite anglers who survived the cut, was zeroed to begin the second phase of this event.
After one day it's apparent the competition for those top-12 spots will be fierce. With 55 fishermen in the field, only 2 pounds separates fourth place and 20th place in this second of three Bassmaster Major events.
If Wolak maintains his lead in today's finale of the Bassmaster American, he will be the first angler in eight days of BASS competition on Lake Wylie to hold the lead for more than one day.
Brit Meyers, an Elite Series rookie, was disappointed he didn't qualify for the event on his home lake, but he has high hopes for another angler, Jason Quinn.
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A change in the game could be a game changer in the Georgia Senate race.
The primary runoff between Jack Kingston and David Perdue for the Republican nomination could become the equivalent of running a gauntlet, for both the candidates and their party, because of time and content.
"We just got through a year and a half of very grueling, seven-way primary," said Kingston, "and now we start again."
The nine weeks between primary and runoff is the longest ever in Georgia, three times longer than usual. That means the candidates will be in a two month sprint on the campaign trail, expending money and energy the whole time.
They will also be sprinting head-on, campaigning directly against each other instead of the field, having to get more personal and aggressive to get by.
"It won't get much more personal than it's been the last six weeks," said Perdue. "I'll tell you that."
They'll say it's about the issues, but it will be about each other as they attempt to outpoint each other like a pair of boxers.
"The people," said Perdue, "are tired of this nonsense that goes on that we've come to expect from career politicians."
"He has a terrible business record," countered Kingston in reference to his opponent. "He oversaw the largest firing in the textile industry's history. Nearly 8,000 people lost their jobs."
Even for the winner, those body blows will accumulate.
They will also linger, becoming fodder for another fight as Democrat Michelle Nunn sits back these next nine weeks and takes notes during this slugfest and uses everything Kingston and Perdue say each other now against whoever she faces in November.
"If we can present the case to the voters of Georgia,'' said Perdue, "we can end up at the end of these next nine weeks with a candidate that's not beat up, not chewed up.''
That's not too likely with the gloves about to come off.
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However, here's what headship is not—a dictatorship. Headship isn't primarily about authority. It's primarily about responsibility. Just because you are the head doesn't mean you have everyone under your thumb to treat as you wish. What it really means is you are ultimately responsible for the people either God Himself or the people who put you in leadership entrusted to you. But the current leaders of the GOP don't see their headship as a solemn responsibility. Rather, they define their leadership by our followership. Meaning we are to just follow them wherever they take us, even if it's over a cliff, because they're better than the Democrats just because.
Therefore, until the leadership of the Republican Party is turned over this party cannot possibly improve. Beware the yeast of the Pharisees, or in this case the current party establishment. Until these people are removed from leadership, and replaced with those who share our courage of conviction, nothing will change for the better. It doesn't matter if you directly quote the wisest works of human history, and inscribe those words in your party platform. The fecklessness of the current party leadership will just nullify all your noble intentions.
This is why the focus of our efforts should first be on changing the leadership of the Republican Party before worrying about defeating Democrats, because until these current leaders are removed you cannot defeat the Democrats. In fact, as we're seeing now, these current GOP leaders are often caught conspiring with Democrats against us. Defeating Democrats but leaving this current GOP leadership in place is like closing a bullet wound while neglecting the malignant tumor still in your system.
3. Do not compromise your non-negotiables and core convictions for a political party.
We have a term for institutions, organizations, and movements that demand you set aside your non-negotiables and courage of convictions to serve the group-think.
That term is "cult."
A baby isn't any less dead because a Republican killed it. Your children's future prosperity isn't any less imperiled because a Republican was recklessly growing government. I'm not talking about purity or perfection in an impure or imperfect world. I'm talking about non-negotiables. Things your moral conscience cannot possibly permit you to defy, otherwise the condition of your soul is imperiled.
A non-negotiable isn't disagreeing about which methodology or strategy we pursue to defend liberty. A non-negotiable is pursuing a methodology or strategy that threatens liberty.
A non-negotiable isn't disagreeing about which is the best means to lessen the tax burden on the American people, loosen the grip of the IRS, and getting the government out of the picking winners and losers business. A non-negotiable is maintaining the current status quo or promising to just manage the decay.
We should have a few non-negotiables, but we should only have a few.
When we start violating our non-negotiables, it means we really don't have any. If we really don't have any non-negotiables, we're really morally relativists. If the Republican Party is inhabited and lead primarily by moral relativists, than it's really just a de-facto crime family consisting of special interests and Boss Tweed wannabes.
You don't see Democrats violating their non-negotiables, do you? Until we are ready to demonstrate a similar courage of conviction we cannot win. The wrong courage of conviction beats no courage of conviction every time.
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BROOKFIELD, Wisconsin (WKOW) -- For the first time since his now famous instrument was stolen, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond plans to take the stage with the valuable Stradivarius violin.
Tickets for Monday night's performance at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts are selling fast.
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Executive director Jonathan Winkle says ticket sales for the show have spiked after the violin was recovered Thursday. He says 250 tickets were sold in a day and a half.
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Public comment on the PolyMet mining project got underway Wednesday in the heart of where the mine would be.
The second of three meetings was held at Mesabi East Schools in Aurora. About 1,000 people showed up for the public meeting to share their opinions.
About 170 people signed up to speak during the three-hour public comment period. Names were drawn at random and each person was given three minutes to talk.
"It's time to do this project right; it's time to do this project now; it's time to do this project here," Hoyt Lakes Mayor Mark Skelton said.
"There are some significant flaws in the science in which the EIS is based," Paul Schurke, of Ely, said.
Emotions run high when it comes to the project. It would be the first copper-nickel mine in Minnesota.
"I think it's a crazy time to think about things like copper-nickel mining when we can damage our water environment," Sally Munger, of Duluth, said.
"My concern is the area," Benjamin Pratt, of Biwabik, said. "The prosperity of the guys coming out of high school."
While people both in support and opposition of the project were at the meeting, a large majority of people wore stickers in support of mining and the jobs it creates.
"PolyMet would not be a silver bullet, but would be an opportunity for those of us in northern Minnesota to strive to earn a living like those in the rest of the state," Jim Hoolihan, of Grand Rapids, said.
"I'm concerned that the accumulative impacts of the PolyMet project and the other existing and expanding mines would impair wild rice, fish and aquatic ecosystems," Susan Schurke, of Ely, said.
Even the youngest Iron Rangers were weighing in Wednesday.
"When I grow up, where would I find a mine if they start shutting them down?" Louis Meskill, of Ely, said. "My dad and grandpa and great grandpa are miners."
The third and final hearing will be Tuesday in Saint Paul.
The deadline to submit comments is March 13.
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Hi I'm currently working on a project and was wondering if it was possible to do two find functions in cakephp? For example I am making a sports news website and I am grouping the news articles as top story, understory and headline.
What I want to do is retrive top stories so i can highlight these as the prominent story and then understory will be beneath as a lesser story and then headlines will be the least important.
This is what I have so far
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in the view im doing a standard foreach statement to echo the data and I get thrown a undefined variable error.
Is what i am saying even possible or should I create different functions and then use them as elements?
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EXCLUSIVE: Opening Ceremony's Carol Lim on the Brand's New London Shop, Baby OC, and More-------
Opening Ceremony's latest addition to its growing empire, a shop at London's Ace Hotel, officially opens its doors to the public today. "It's a small store, but it's a very well curated selection," said the brand's co-founder, Carol Lim, of the new Shoreditch outpost. (This will function as the primary OC store in London while the King Street location undergoes renovation.)
In the mix, there are offerings from OC's roster of popular labels like Hood by Air and Raf Simons, the main OC line, and store exclusive pieces (the DKNY for Opening Ceremony collection will make its debut at the store, ahead of the September 1 official launch). There are also goods from London's rising stars, such as Faustine Steinmetz and Marques'Almeida. "We have been big supporters of some of these labels, like Marques'Almeida, for a while, so a lot of the product is really special to us," said Lim.
Lim, for her part, didn't make it to London for the opening: "I'm at home—my baby is due any day now." She admitted that she and her OC co-founder, Humberto Leon, have babies on the mind these days. "Funny you should ask, we are working on baby gear right now. I also have a 20-month-old and Humberto has twins; it's just a big part of our everyday lives at this point, so it makes a lot of sense." More on that at a later date.
That's not all they've got up their sleeve. "As our Opening Ceremony line continues to grow, we are really interested in exploring what a mono-brand retail format could look like," said Lim. "We have always had our brand out with the 300-plus other brands that we carry, but we are hoping to switch things up a bit. In the next year, we are most likely going to roll out a new retail experience here in the States."
Here, we have an exclusive first look inside the new Max Lamb-designed store.
Opening Ceremony Shoreditch at Ace Hotel, London, 106 Shoreditch High Street. For more info, visit www.openingceremony.us.
Opening Ceremony Heads to Shoreditch-------
Opening Ceremony fans in London's trendy Shoreditch neighborhood are in for a treat. The Ace Hotel, a longtime OC collaborator, will debut a pop-up shop at its Shoreditch location at the end of July. (If you'll recall, the Ace Hotel in New York City also opened an OC pop-up in 2010.) WWD reports that the Max Lamb-designed store will pop up at 106 High Street.
In addition to Opening Ceremony's men's and women's collections, the shop will sell the new René Magritte capsule (pictured) and pieces by local NewGen designers Faustine Steinmetz and Marques'Almeida.
The pop-up coincides with the temporary closing of OC's Covent Garden shop, which will undergo renovations.
EXCLUSIVE: Fashion East Reveals Its Spring '15 Menswear Talents-------
They're coming…The Spring '15 menswear shows are upon us, set to kick off in London on June 15, and this season, Fashion East's Menswear Presentations are back with a bold quartet of up-and-coming brands. On June 16, Lulu Kennedy's emerging talent initiative will invite jewelry designer Alan Crocetti, textile specialist Edward Crutchley, Fashion East womenswear alums Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida of Marques'Almeida, and special guest Martine Rose to show off their latest menswear offerings. "We love putting on the presentations—everything from curating the mix of talented designers both brand-new and established, to watching guests explore the venue," Kennedy told Style.com. "The way the designers show off their work is always highly creative and individual. You get a real sense of their 'worlds,' and unlike a catwalk show, they can be front-of-house, chatting to journalists and buyers and enjoying the atmosphere—which is always party-like!" This season will be more "party-like" than ever, thanks to Fashion East's ongoing partnership with Red Bull Catwalk Studio and a special performance from producer and rapper Rejjie Snow. But don't be mistaken—Fashion East isn't just about a good time and bumpin' beats. If the success of its menswear alums like Craig Green, Sibling, Agi & Sam, Astrid Andersen, and Lou Dalton is any indication, Kennedy's platform is the premier place to spot the fashion stars of tomorrow.
NEWGEN Announces Its Fall '14 Recipients-------
This morning, NEWGEN, the British Fashion Council's Topshop-sponsored emerging talent scheme, announced the seven new talents who will receive sponsorship to present their Fall '14 collections during London fashion week in February. Fledgling designers and brands including 1205, Marques'Almeida, Lucas Nascimento and Simone Rocha (left) will receive support for their runway shows while designer Ryan Lo, a Fashion East alum, will receive funding for a presentation. Meanwhile, Claire Barrow (another Fashion East grad) and Danielle Romeril will house their new collections in an exhibition space. The NEWGEN committee, chaired by journalist Sarah Mower, MBE, selects designers based on their creative strengths and distinct points of view. Past awardees have included Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Nicholas Kirkwood, Jonathan Saunders, and J.W. Anderson.
Marques'Almeida's L.A. State of Mind-------
It has been a year of firsts for Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida of Marques'Almeida. After being awarded NewGen sponsorship, the Central Saint Martins grads presented on the official London fashion week schedule for the first time during the Spring '14 shows in September. And this week, the duo—best known for their raw and unexpected denim looks—made their inaugural trek to Los Angeles as part of the British Fashion Council's traveling London Showrooms. In between press appointments and a trip to In-N-Out Burger, Marques and Almeida sourced inspiration from famed vintage emporium Wasteland—and they invited Style.com to tag along.
"Denim kind of found us," Marques said of their now signature medium. "We were so obsessed with the early nineties, when it was like the code of dressing always had to involve a really nice worn-out pair of jeans or a jean jacket. We thought it was the foundation of cool." The nineties is a decade that Marques and Almeida (who cut their teeth at Vivienne Westwood and Preen, respectively) reference often, explored through the lens of i-D and Kurt Cobain. "We started with the whole grunge movement and watching Nirvana documentaries. It was a lot more oversize, boy shapes," Marques continued, later adding that they abandoned the era once "grunge became a trend." Their latest reference is the noughties (i.e., the 2000s). "It was all about being sexy in a very obvious way," she said.
The stop in Los Angeles was important for the designers, who produce their collection mostly in London. "Although we've never been here, we've always felt this weird connection," Marques mused while browsing the store, which is just miles from some of the biggest denim factories in the world. But being based in London has its advantages. "We don't have this preconceived idea of what jeanswear should look like. [In L.A.], we'd end up doing the five-pocket jean just because they have the machines to do it," Almeida admitted. "We knew nothing about denim until we started, and we learned a lot through experimenting," offered Marques. As Marques'Almeida stands poised to grow—and recent acclaim, as well as stockists like Opening Ceremony, seems to demand it—their future looks bright, and not just because of the SoCal sun.