Archive | December, 2008
· CULTURE, MUSIC ·
Song of the Day : [12/16]The great Tracy Chapman’s newest and eighth album, “Our Bright Future”, dropped last month. I just went to check out her website and was so excited by what I found. A completely interactive coloring book interface that you can play with while listening to bits and pieces of her new album, which is quite melo. This album marks 20 years of her career.
· CULTURE, FASHION ·
True or False ? Kanye moving to London to follow career in fashion ?Grammy Award-winning rapper, record producer and Fashion Lover Kanye West plans to ditch his music career in favor of fashion.
He tells the Daily Mirror he’ll move to London next year to begin at the bottom with an internship at Louis Vuitton‘s UK -
“I’m going to go and take…
· FEATURED, INTERIOR DESIGN, TRAVEL ·
Starck’s SLS Hotel, Beverly HillsEven in LA terms, the brand new SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills is a networking dream. The brainchild of Sam Nazarian – owner of the flourishing SBE entertainment and nightlife company – it has had iconic designer Philippe Starck, ‘the Ambassador of Spanish cuisine’ Jose Andres and even design maestro and retailer Murray Moss all on board…
· ART ·
Melli Ink – The Glass ArtistGlass artist Melli Ink - She studied theater design at Central St. Martins College of Art in London. She worked as Set-designer for theater, film and opera. Her Skeleton Glass Bones project is just Amazing. A lot of hours of work…
· ART ·
Daisy BalloonJapanese Balloon Artist Daisy ( Rei Hosokai ) creates almost everything with balloons, from Dresses to accessories and even flowers – The site presently shows some amazing dresses fabricated with the long balloons you’d usually only see in the form of little animals, but Daisy elevates the art to design amazing clothing that could be called haute couture. She won…
· ART ·
ZenvironmentsZenvironments illustration and design is the work of Zach Johnsen. The first few works here are drawn on watercolor paper , but a lot of his work now (some shown here) are large format acrylic on wood creaturesque characters.
· CULTURE, MUSIC ·
Song of the Day : [12/15]There is nothing really to say about “Youth Novels”, Lykke Li‘s Album that came out a few months ago, other than if you don’t have it yet, you are really missing out on one of the years best albums and greatest artists. l’ll leave you with these two tracks for a range of her sound.
· FASHION, FEATURED, RUNWAY, TRENDS ·
Chanel’s Russian RevolutionWe have been feeling the whole headdress trend coming in for awhile, designers have been prancing around the idea and a hand full of brands have sprung from this idea of hairpieces, but who else than Karl Lagerfeld to set the god damn tone. Laetitia Crahay, Chanel’s brilliant accessories designer really outdid all expectations with this roundup.
· CULTURE, HEARSAY ·
My Holiday Picture on a Blockbuster Movie PosterAdactio, an British Blogger, was surprised one day when he saw the Iron Man Billboard in the street. He thought hmmm, that this reminds me of something ! And its by hazard while looking through his holiday pictures that he remembered why this was so familiar[...]
· CELEBRITY, MODELS, TRENDS ·
Coco Rocha ImmortalisedIn May we spoke about The Rootstein Display Mannequin Company when they were doing their launch for the newest immortalization of model Agyness Deyn, and today same news applies to canadian belle, top model Coco Rocha. So just like Agyness Deyn, Twiggy and Yasmin Le Bon, Coco Rocha now has her own Rootstein mannequin…
· DESIGNERS, FASHION, FEATURED ·
Hanako Narahira’s Knitwear MadnessAnother Central Saint Martens Talent, Hanako Narahira is a London based Japanese Knitwear master. This super colorful collection has a very Japanese spirit. The collection is inspired by graffiti on the Berlin wall, vivid color, motifs, and trace of time and people.
· DESIGNERS, FASHION ·
Galliano New Jewelry CampaignJohn Galliano has decided to sexy up his f/w jewelry ad campaign with French Supermodel Morgane Dubled. We only get a peek at her face but plenty of white skin, against a darker male model. The contrast of her pale skin allows for the jewelry, consisting of flower and daggers, to really pop out in the ads. I have not seen them in print anywhere, yet.