Live Bed Show
‘Embodies this season’s reoccurring theme of understated elegance’
Model Arizona Muse. Photographer Willy Vanderperre. Editorial for LOVE Magazine.
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Emma’s fair trade love
Emma Watson continues her ‘eco clothing’ collaboration with People Tree.
New items below, click to view/jump. The rest of the collection drops February 28.
Taste and graphic design
I’ve been drawing my ‘taste’ chart on a white board for about six or seven years now.
Taste in graphic design is a concept I’ve been aware of for a long time – but as I looked out at what other designers were doing, taste wasn’t always a part of it. I kept seeing graphic designers who were stuck in one mode and not going any further.
‘I know that’ – is typically the term that shuts down most creativity. I’ve heard it from a lot of professionals in my field.
Diversity is the key to being a graphic designer today. Understanding concepts of other design industries – fashion, interior, architecture – even music – takes one further.
So one day in a classroom, I spontaneously drew this ‘taste’ chart.
I’ve since used it with clients, students and other designers to show different ways of approaching graphic design – so we’re not all just sitting here with blinders on, our heads in the sand. [Read more →]
Vogue Italia illustrated
‘If I could gave my way . . . one of my goals in life is to illustrate a Vogue Italia Cover’
The work of Igor + André.
Illustration also available as a tee.
Paris Metro Fashion, 1959
News footage from a fashion show held the Saint-Michel Metro station, September 9, 1959.
And here’s some music to go with the footage:
Dicky Doo & The Don’ts: Vive L’Amour
No pants on the Subway 2011
‘As in years past, there are No Pants Subway Rides happening in cities around the world on January 9.’
Info above, more detail here.
Found via Shandi Pierzina, who’s organized the Vegas trouser drop
Gaga 2011
‘If 2010 smelled like Lady Gaga, what will 2011 taste like?’
Lady Gaga shot from behind by fashion photographer Nick Knight. For her upcoming album Born This Way. Info here.
Below, unfinished Gaga portrait by Anastasia Chebacheva:
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‘white paint, reinterpretation and raw materials’
(Untitled) fragrance by Martin Margiela. Package design by Fabien Baron.
Found via Nina Stössinger
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