From what I’ve read over at Daktoa Lubitsch‘s excellent review blog, these latest releases from Soren Jaakobs were created by Vaughn Vendetta on the Teen Grid. He’s still there, but he’s struck a deal with the recently-transferred Sin Kovacs to run Soren Jaakobs in the main grid. It’s an interesting partnership, and I’m glad it’s happened, because these items are quite interesting! Promising that they’re 100% created in photoshop, the textures are crisp and I’m very much enjoying the color palettes in use. The Lucard shirt (a mere L$135 apiece, with a total of 8 colors available) in the Oceanswift color is nicely executed. It’s a difficult thing, a pin-striped shirt, and admittedly it doesn’t fully match up at the waist—but it’s very difficult to do so. The Polar scarf’s nicely sculpted and tonally it matches the Lucard shirt very well, and I imagine the 11 other colors are similarly handsome in their texturing. It’s just L$150 as well, which is certainly very affordable.

As to the bag? Well, every urban guy needs a messenger bag, I think. I kind of wish I owned one in RL… maybe I’ll get one, actually. Lugging around a backpack isn’t terribly stylish (at least, not when I’m doing it). In any case, I’m a fan of the texturing on this, particularly with the shading. The Arcant messenger bags come in 8 colors, and are the most expensive Soren Jaakobs item here at L$195 (which is, again, a very fair price for the quality of work seen here).

The outfit suits the Ladro pants from the late, lamented Last Call, clothing which I often wore with the Spencer sculpted shoes (still one of the most amazing men’s shoes in SL, years after they were first out) from Shiny Things and which I decided to wear again in Navy. To complete it all, one of my favorite long hairstyles right now—Stephanie II from Jolie Femme (yes, I’m aware it’s a female hairstyle)—and then some quirky, very fun poses from Dismorph. who I’ve recently featured. This pose set is named Brandon Flowers, and the five poses take their names from various songs performed by the lead singer of The Killers, a band which Freyja and I happen to love. These are definitely not for every one or every occasion, but they’re certainly fun.