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Self portrait, Flávia Desgranges van der Linden.

Found via Fashion Coolture

Tags: design, fashion, photography by steve
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Video for Lenka’s Heart Skips a Beat.

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Thursday night, Gwen Stefani’s Fall 2011 L.A.M.B. Collection closed out NY Fashion Week.

Pictured: Twitpics from backstage. Video below. More NY Fashion Week video here.

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‘No need to gaze into a crystal ball, just watch the New York Fashion Week runways to find out what you will be wearing next Fall and Winter’

Read more here and here.

Of course, there’s more to come. London is hitting now, also Milan, Paris and (starts Thursday) Sacramento.

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Project Runway season 6 winner Irina Shabayeva is still out to prove something. And she’s doing a damn good job of it.

Here’s her incredible Fall/Winter 2011 collection – from this past week’s NY Fashion Week.

Found via Divas & Dorks

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‘decades worth of the milliner’s designs and to get inside the head behind the hats.’

Fashion blogger Tavi headed to Antwerp in September to review Stephen Jones’ career retrospective exhibition, Accent of Fashion.

Review (with more photos) here. Monograph available here.

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The work of Justin M. Maller.

Found via Cretique

Tags: art, cool finds, design, fashion, illustration, photography by steve
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Helvetica wallpaper by Lurino.

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Old home page for ‘Helvetica Lovers Anonymous.’

Click to jump/view larger. From 2004.

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‘Unlike conventional fonts, Chan’s Sade fonts are comprised of sexual phrases and sentence fragments rather than letters, so that what is typed on the keyboard is not what appears on the screen.’

Type a letter, get a phrase. Type a sentence, get a story.

18 TrueType fonts by Paul Chan. Download them free here.

Found via Fleshbot

Tags: design, fonts, typography by steve
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Typography from New York magazine.

Found via mslk

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