Entries from August 2008 ↓

I was just asking myself few weeks back why would anyone drink something else except water to cool off a burning thirst. I admit it’s an unfair question and I sometimes fall into the coke temptation due to lack of sleep but these flavored waters got me all philosophical. It’s like eating pills chicken flavored [...]

Just as our friend, Ellington, promised, it’s time to save some money for the Armani TV set: Philips designs dresses! Not your average kind of dress, the Skin dress is part of a project that experiments with emotional fabric. Philips calls this a shift to sensitive technologies. The only hitch is that the sensitive dress [...]

Now that’s a beautiful ad print! Not only it’s about Hermès, but it’s also a great set for a model, unusual and surprising. Mariacarla Boscono for Hermès Fall Winter 2008 2009 by Eric Valy makes you ask what you should really bring with you in a winter mountain expedition…If not high heels, nothing! And next [...]

I wonder how many magazines really exist… Do you think about all that paper being printed every month and distributed worldwide? It’s insane! At least if half of all that would be recycled! Anyway, for all it’s worth, this picture is brilliant. It’s today’s culture summoned up in one image. A cultural mix contained in [...]

Replicas don’t stop at clothes. Banana Republic is celebrating its 30th anniversary so everything comes in special for this fall. The ad campaign features Carolyn Murphy and Will Chalker photographed by Tom Munro and will launch as a 12 page insert in September magazines. There’s something else to this anniversary: the Banana Republic City Insider [...]

You know the corporate ways of life. It’s like they’ve got a world of their own, a different universe – the corpuniverse. Well, in LVMH corpuniverse, they released this five minutes clip for the corporate acknowledgment, a chance for every corporate participant to feel the power of the system he was enrolled to. It’s a [...]

You remember The French and the Glorious Cosmovoide Bed? Well now you have the French and the Glorious Wind pavilion. It looks like a spiderman’s thing, but Windshape it’s a two-eight-meter high dynamic structure meant to be a gathering place near the Provence campus in Lacoste (France). Made from plastic pipes with aluminum collars and [...]

What’s a $14 Million item meant to do? Nothing. Just be. Garrard’s Heart of the Kingdom Ruby is one of the most expensive jewelry ever. Not too beautiful, just big, this British piece of jewelry is about a 40.63 Burma ruby and a 155 carat diamond necklace that could also be worn separately as a [...]