Julia & styles . . .
There’s a huge part of me that wonders where celebrities get the idea that it’s just so easy to – overnight – become a fashion designer. And based on this snarky video, so does Julia Stiles.
Found via Huffington Post
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Handmade shoes by Georges Esquivel
I love a good pair of shoes. And my range varies – on the low end I have my own collection of vintage bowling shoes; and my fav footwear are my yellow first generation Starck Pumas.
SoCal-based Georges Esquivel combines retro styling with handcrafted quality. Read more about how he’s taken a bite out of ‘Europe’s leading luxury brands.’
Found via Cool Hunting
Sexy glyph
Cover story from the September 2009 W: Kate Moss shows off Miuccia Prada’s fall collection. Prefaced, of course, by a beautifully drawn typographic glyph.
Futurist footwear
Prada (seen above) was tapping Futurism for 2008; and from the August 2009 Marie Claire, the trend may still have some wings . . .
Found via ItalianFuturism.org
Stiletto shirts by mehallo
Choose from two vintage stiletto dingbats.
Options are an art deco-themed pump or basic, clean lines.
Part of my Moderno Collection at Café Press, limited edition tees featuring type and dingbats from my Jeanne Moderno fonts.
National waffffles! 2009
Today is National Waaffffle Day – celebrating the day the first US patent for a Waffffle maker was issued to Cornelius Swartwout in 1869.
Celebrate your love of waffffles with a limited edition waffffles! shirt by mehallo. Available for both men and women. Part of The Moderno Collection at Cafe Press.
Photo taken at The Original Pancake House in Roseville, CA
Run, run, run, Runway
Project Runway returns tonight. And note that fashion design is just one industry over from graphic design. What I like most is: students who watch can know what to expect from my critiques and timed exercises. In fact, just a few weeks back I used for class – almost verbatim – a challenge from Runway’s diet doppelganger, Bravo replacement The Fashion Show.
And ever since Runway’s been on the air, I’ve been able to do really tough critiques without too many screamfests resulting (well, mostly). And the peppy dance music then has a reason. But my Tim Gunn impersonation: needs a plenitude of practice.
Sew cool
Utrecht-based illustrator Marlos Duyker knows her way around a sewing machine. She describes her work as ‘an infinite fusion of illustrative design, art and fashion.’ Check out more in her Flickr photostream.
Found via Doodlers Anonymous
T Magazine rocks
I was almost a journalist. And love good newspaper design; and a few years back, got to adapt newspaper design to a magazine format. Dream gig for me.
The New York Times Magazine is a visual delight and I’d say sets the standard for what a weekly newspaper magazine can aspire to (Parade, are you listening?). At one of the schools where I teach, the library has a subscription and a nice stack of back issues. They also subscribe to the stylish spin off, T Magazine.
Yesterday, T Magazine posted the best of their 2009 covers on their daily blog. And the day before, they posted the best of 2008.
And their 5th Anniversary issue has just dropped. 5 different covers – by Frank Gehry, Jenny Holzer, Francesco Vezzoli, Jeff Koons and the Starn brothers – plus work by Karl Largerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Stefano Pilati, Alber Elbaz, Miuccia Prada and Nicolas Ghesquière, the latter 5 doing a makeover of actress Carey Mulligan.
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