Entries from June 2009 ↓

…for the High Line! Green-white with a bit of gray in it, the High Line Friends Tracks Towel by Diane von Furstenberg is a bit pricey for the green cause: $75.
Even so, DVF’s beach towel normally retails around $120 so we should consider ourselves lucky if grabbing a $75 DVF towel! (doesn’t it make you [...]

You know that you’ll be having a serious blast around the fashblogosphere when the Blogaround time comes! Long awaited and highly selected, this Blogaround profile lies under the appearance. Let’s go beyond skin-deep!
Working our way up, you’d never believe what people can call boots!(that puts Posh’s Antonio Berardi in a completely modest light! And if [...]

Distinguished designer extraordinaire, outstanding performer Kanye West celebrated his birthday Monday (8th June 2009). For his 32nd birthday he chose a special cake to show off his amazing talents: a cake in the shape of his latest Nike Air Yeezy sneakers!
Besides being absolutely tasteless and ugly beyond compare, having a Nike cake can be considered [...]

Recession, what? Hermès challenges the young designers for $4,000-worth first prize while they’ve initiated a breeding crocodiles campaign in Australian farms. Because it’s really hard to make 3,000 crocodile bags/year (it takes 4 crocodiles per handbag), bags that end up costing around $48,000/piece!
Let’s see: that’s about $144,000,000/year in crocodile bags and just $4,000 for a [...]

Whether that’s an economy appealing bag or it strikes purely our conscience’s cords, it’s up to us. Fanny Descary, a packaging French student imagined a pyramidal consumer trap bag that’ll make everyone think twice before making the next purchase. (ok, maybe not Paris Hilton, but every intention counts!)
While needing far less than we actually buy, [...]

LVMH joins the design competition wave and throws a challenge to privileged students attending the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT): creating bike clothing and accessories. The new designs have to be affordable, practical and stylish.
The designs will be unveiled as DKNY prototypes this summer, for NYC’s Summer Streets. Winning designs: poncho, jacket and travel bag [...]

We live in hard fashion times! Hermès just launched a graphic design competition with Designboom.
Opening up to new prints and ideas is an incredible opportunity for new designers but also a popular maneuver from the French luxury house. With a given theme (animals, flowers, geometric design, horses, marine life) and silk as canvas, the contests’ [...]

For over a year now, the entire world has been speculating about the next iPhone. There was even a time when the next iPhone was rumored to be a nano (which would have totally ruined the iconic iPhone standard).
There’s no need to speculate any further: the new iPhone is here. Now! Called iPhone 3G S, [...]