Alexa Chung’s chatfest returns to MTV this afternoon (with new logo and futurist-like set) – but who would’ve thunk she had a career before arriving in the States? (I say with tongue-in-cheek merican tude, y’all)
Here’s some 2008 reports by Alexa on couture icons Karl Lagerfeld, Roberto Cavalli (with his parrots!) and Jean Paul Gaultier – for UK-based Gok’s Fashion Fix.
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Here’s the new bag that Mulberry named after Alexa . . . (click on the bag for details)
Heels from Alexander McQueen’s 2010 spring collection
Extreme shoes: Follow the debate over at The New York Times.
It’s not often one can write a hedline like that.
Sacramento native Annie Rose runs the Deranged Designs fashion studio – and has been doing it a long time.
Her look is punk, her work is prolific, she’s constantly expanding her collection and her approach comes with your basic underground punk doesn’t take shit attitude. But in her case, a really nice doesn’t take shit attitude. Annie is probably one of the nicest punks I’ve ever met. [Read more →]
Amy Pine makes handmade handbags using vintage fabrics – simple on the outside, action on the inside. Limited editions because once the fabric is gone, it’s gone.
Website here. Facebook fan page here.
Found via Jason Malmberg
The aim of design is to define space is a concept I was talking about earlier today in my graphic design history class, tied in with Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘rectilinear approach to spatial organization.’ [Meggs’, 2006, p. 221]
The Aim of Design is to Define Space is also a German progressive pop band. MySpace page here.
Tho
’twas the shirt that lured me in. Shirts (and hoodies) here.
As I write this, there are 2,728 items in my spam folder; most of them involve some form of penis renovation, ‘The Big Pink,’ ‘urgent and confidential business’ inquiries from deposed royal family members that need my help – and on my blog, 2,201 spam posts sitting in what I call my ‘hey asshole, don’t spam my blog’ folder.
Designer Floyd Hayes has decided to turn annoying spam into money – for a good cause. Since a lot of spam is about freaky misspelled sex stuff, every four weeks Hayes will be issuing the best subject lines as buttons and donate all the profits to a sexual health charity. Details here.
Oh and wait – ‘The Big Pink’ is actually a cool new band, it’s an email I’m actually subscribing to. Here’s their debut album, A Brief History Of Love. Drops September 22nd.
I really wish spam filters worked better.
Buttons found via PSFK
Shirley-Ann Dick’s There’s more to life than Helvetica tee
Designed in under 10 minutes.
Found via Whitezine
There has been a trend in Europe where some really funky fonts have been showing up in editorial – sort of as a snarky way of saying, We know this isn’t right, but we’re doing it anyway. The UK edition of Elle Decoration has been playing in this arena for years, which often gives me quite the chuckle.
But . . . Paris Vogue is using Curlz. And they’re taken to task for it by 13-year-old fashion blogger Tavi.
C’mon. Paris Vogue.
Really?
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