Kenzo x Vans has just announced the first of their collaboration, brought together by Opening Ceremony creators. Bright happy colours underscore the line of shoes, in the trademark net graphics.
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The folks at Opening Ceremony sure have an eye for buried treasures, like the recent one that found from the seventies, a duffel bag that converts onto a backpack, you’ve guess it, double its size. Combine that premise with Opening Ceremony’s hipster styling and marketing and viola, instant fashion must have, in a limited run of five colours and two sizes.
Dukno Yoon creates the most magical jewellery that behave more like puppets. Wriggle your finger or raise your wrist and make them fly.
OWN’s (Oprah Winfrey Network) inaugural episode of the Visionaires documentary series, on fashion designer Tom Ford. I always find it intriguing to understand how designers verbalise their own creative process.
Rebecca Schiffman designed a collection of jewelry inspired by architectural motifs from the Upper East Side New York. The collection consists of brooches, pendants, cufflinks, earrings and buttons made of silver and brass.
With a simple twist and a turn, Japanese illustrator ‘BAKU’ Maeda transforms the lowly ribbon into a delightful caricature of animals in all shapes and forms.
These A-frame spectacles designed by Ron Arad for PQ Eyewear fits any combination of face size and nose shape. Just simply slide up and down the width of the ‘A’ to customise the spectacles.
If the barrage of bag brands out there seem all too feminine for your butch taste, these offerings from Klein Tools are bound to appeal to the manly man in you. Made from heavy-duty canvas and rivet reinforced for durability, these bags, first designed to carry tools (heavy heavy tools) will do ok for your iPads and moisturisers. Finished off with leather handles and bases, there is no more excuse for lugging around that Crumpler anymore.
If there is one print job where a designer can go all out, that would be the fashion show invite. This great gallery from Wallpaper* shows you some of the best print production money can buy.
It’s amazing how even after the passing of McQueen do we still get these amazing visions from Sarah Burton, precisely in his spirit, but softer, more accessible, but no less fantastical and other-worldly. This season, Sarah dives beneath the waves and emerges with water nymphs covered in scales and corals in the prettiest silhouettes and transparency. Images courtesy of Style.com
Raf has proved that being creative within a box is more then possible. His strict silhouettes this season are his canvases for his play with texture, prints and materials, and not a thread out of the line. Beautiful.
Jonny Johansson’s latest collection for Acne has left fashion editors in a state of gleeful shock. Jonny has such an unique fashion vocabulary that he was able string together an outfit that look wonderfully fresh and distinctive, not an easy feat in fashion.
Transparency has found a new way in that of perforations at Marios Schwab. Get ready for a very cool Spring and Summer 2012!
Kite flying has a new found chic-ness, thanks to Philip Lim’s collection for spring 2012. Inspired by his own childhood visions of kites fluttering joyously in the wind, he cleverly translated that emotion onto his pastel and airy collection, using graphic panels, transparency and light fabrics that moves with every step.
My brain and my heart screams ‘I want’ in unison… by Christopher Shannon. Sold out at oki-ni.
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