"graniph T-Shirt Design Award is a global design competition which is open to everyone regardless of age, location or experience. With over 30.000 designs submitted over the past competitions, it has uncovered some great talents on tees."
Do it.
Some of the most amazing pieces of wearable art (if you can call it that) I have ever seen. One of the most intriguing aspects of Nick Cave's "sounds suits" (and no, I don't think THAT Nick Cave), is his grounding principle that a costume can inspire someone to become someone - or something - else for a moment in time. At times traditional, at other times somber, but almost always animated - these suits are what dreams are made of. Check his interview with B/D here, currently showing at the Jack Shainman Gallery in NY.
Oh, and what the hell, here's some of that other Nick Cave for ya'.
“Neon was an obvious choice for me,” he said, referring to the set of his Spring 2009 Paris debut show. “I think the simple melding of tradition and modernity aptly suits the mood at the moment. we are all looking to a brighter future.” Here, Gareth Pugh's nightmarisly delightful concoction for London's Topshop, er, holiday, display.
Came across this while, coincidentally, in my own mind was mulling over a brand guide I'll be working on with my friend. Would love doing this for myself as I've been doing a huge haulout of my closet and reimagining my "brand" a little. Would be interesting to do this each season as a personal documentary; goodness knows how we look speaks volumes about who we are - or at least who we'd like to be.
Models, including Canada's own Jessica Stam, literally fell head-over-heels for Prada's, well, heels this past week at Prada's Spring 2009 show. I've never seen anything like this. It's just so blatantly ridiculous to be pushing fashion, even haute couture, to these levels. Below, poor Katie Fogarty one of the many casualties at this show.
{via fashionologie}
Studs that remind me of wistful sun-drenched visits to Summer's Ice Cream in Yorkville. Farewell sweet heat, hello pistachio ice-creamed ear baubles.
The 'dos sported by Luke Goss (as Prince Nuada) and Anna Walton (Princess Nuala) in Guillermo's new Hellboy flick tell us that dyed tips actually have great potential to look ethereally fabulous. If I had my way, I'd throw this on the runways immediately. Seriously.
A renewable dress designed by professor Fernando Brízio @ ex carceri 'le nuove' (The World Design Capital) in Turin. Simple dresses that can be customized each and every time you wear it simply by placing an uncapped felt marker into the individual pockets. Let the ink run in and you have your own, one-of-a-kind dress. Wash, and start over. Interesting idea toying with the idea of reinvention and renewing a single piece over and over... but how about all those markers you need to throw out? All the same, an interesting way to pass the design reigns over to the consumer.
{via design boom}
So, despite a warning from my seasoned cyclist friend, Ben, I still managed to crash Josette (my bike) a la streetcar tracks. Not too far from Chinatown, home to many a dreaded intersection. And for some added irony, on my way to fetch a helmet.
And so, nifty helmets to get excited about, or at least remark upon:
And now, la Pièce de résistance:
Okay, so you know how we all say that the Japanese culture is all loopy and pretty much like an impenetrable/inimitable alien farmland? Here, Nagi Noda is further proof to affirm such a statement. She's a multi-disciplinary artist with an expertise in creating mend-bending Alice in Wonderland type scenarios for commercials, music videos, and even fashion shows.
Firstly, Hair Hats.
Secondly, the LaForet runway show. Beatrice, this is a whole new level of "shadow fashions" (which is trademarked by us, by the way).
{thanks to Michelle in Ohio for this one}
So it's due time I pick up another pair of shoes. It's been an obscene amount of time since I last made a shoe purchase (wow, do I sound like a North American or what!), so I've been on the prowl. On my travels this weekend really remarked the great stuff that Creative Recreation's been doing these days.
These are my favourite, right now. Alas, like everything else, the men's shoes are far superior than the ladies collection. What is it with companies thinking that we all love those wussy looking round shoes with some Polly Pocket strap over it?
Something of an haute couture online adventure as you dig through the folds of this site. Minimal text, which I love. It's all about visuals visuals visuals in the House of Hermès. Layers of horse videos, jazz musicans' secret wishes, and DIY printable paper handbags. Explore the site yourself and see what other nuggets you come across. Watching horsies makes me want to buy a scarf.
Kenneth Cole.
Thanks to his tireless mission to spread social awareness in a market where, well, Jimmy Choo's are generally top of mind, Kenneth Cole has successfully won me over.
Sure, his older campaign's were obnoxious, even offensive, but his current "We all walk in different shoes" campaign is able to ignite the same interest in a just cause (... individuality? acceptance? just being good people?) without the side effect of infuriating/confusing the masses. Way to rope me in with the ol' Wilson technique. Of course I'll have to see their faces! What? Go to your website? Well, fine.
{images courtesy of Kenneth Cole Online}
And, he has a blog all about social awareness. Well, rather, other people blog for him. Like bloody Alan Cumming.
