Takashi Murakami Does Levi’s Fenom!

If you missed a little Murakami to bright up your days, here’s the new product featuring Takashi Murakami’s unmistakable signature drawings: Levi’s Fenom!

Yes, it’s about jeans! Made for the upcoming exhibition Hi & Lo, Murakami Levi’s Fenom have a dull look and feeling. Drawing white contoured flowers on denim isn’t all that glamorous or artsy to me. I think, however, the jean will score big on the street if and when it will be mass produced. Until that day comes, the Hi & Lo exhibition where the Levi’s Murakami Fenom will be presented opens its doors between October 31st – November 15th 2008 in KaiKai Kiki Gallery, Takashi Murakami’s Gallery from Tokyo. Would you say these Fenom jeans in collaboration with Levi’s are more appealing than the Monogramouflage made with LV?

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I came across something very interesting the other day while I was searching the internet for something stylefrizz-worthy. (in fact, to be honest, it came via messenger from my husband! so if you’ll like this like I did, it’s his doing!)

It’s called the Virtual Dressing Room. At first I thought it was the very common e-dressing room. But no! No, no, no! It’s an actual Virtual Dressing… panel more than a room! What does it mean? It means you have a screen in front of you reacting in a wii manner. You stand up in front of the panel and you reach function to your needs for t-shirts, pants, hats. You can change within a category from left or right and have different colors or models. (anyway, I think the panel’s options are subject to software programming, hence permanently improvable). I have found this demonstrative clip only. Take a look and tell me if it could work. I for one consider it brilliant and helpful. It surely cuts out the addictive unique pleasure of touching the clothes and actually trying them on, but saves so much time, I’m willing to forgive that!

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Today I’ll talk accessories. And because accessories are meant to spice up every outfit, no matter how dull, I thoroughly searched the internet up and down, from left to right and backwards and came up with these itsy bitsy pieces of charm: Enjoy this week’s Blogaround!

I start my days taking care of my family, between the kids and my dearest husband I don’t have time to face the mirror. However, when I do get there and it’s one of those hair rebellion days I look around for a hair-saver. Something to glamour up my hair, to sort the out the mess. When I came across the ban.do I thought it was something Heaven Sent! Take a look at the ban.do and judge for yourself!

And if you don’t like wearing feathers in your hair, you should consider a minor change! Feathers on your wrist! A feathered cuff like no other for your eyes’ inspiration!

…. Or maybe you should forget feathers and consider a colorful necklace?

Or simply leggings? Lace leggings?

Let’s change a bit the registry and slip into something comfortable. Black and beautiful, accessories included!

And a little something I fancy about for few days now – the over the knee boots! Now that’s a way to start building up your outfit! (you can see the gorgeous boots in the picture above)

And because it’s addictive and I have to share – a funny prettypoll for your eyes and mind delight! Join the haute fashion blogosphere into a body talk!

If it brings in cash for the house, than it’s a go! Emporio Armani mobile project with Samsung gets another name and another face.

This new phone is called The Samsung Armani 2 Night Effect and even if it’s not relevant at first sight, the name really has something to do with the looks of the phone. It has a blue light on the sides of the phone, wrapping it around like it would’ve been the dance floor. Or the catwalk. Or.. nevermind. It’s just a phone, even if it has that Emporio Armani Eagle allover it. Looks more like an air force tag than fashion design. You already know I fell in love with the Vivienne Tam HP, so I do appreciate a great fashion and technology mix. But this isn’t stylish. Is it?

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Everybody’s favorite witch, none the other but Hermione Granger strikes a pose in October’s Harper’s Bazaar.

And it’s not just that, she graces a “Harry Potter”-ish pictorial alongside some of the finest designers from the UK. Not the same aftertaste as her latest Vogue photos but lovely and mysterious. I don’t know about you, but I am a declared Harry Potter fan. I haven’t read the books, I only saw the movies and still wait for the next ones where I’ll be charmed by the wizard apprentices adventures. As for these photos, I can’t choose a favorite between Mario Schwab’s, Alexander McQueen’s, Vivienne Westwood’s and Giles Deacon’s. Which one charmed your heart?

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Back when the Claudia Schiffer campaign for Dom Pérignon was shot, I thought you couldn’t get racier than that.

I was wrong. Given the story told by none the other but Karl the Kaiser, I suspect he was targeting Eva all along and that Claudia was a mistake, just a stand in because the real star wasn’t available. Oh well (sigh) I guess being a skeleton really pays off. However, this is Dom Pérignon Rose Vintage 1996 ad campaign with Eva Herzigova by Karl Lagerfeld.

There’s a simple story to this advertising campaign – it’s about a beautiful, young blonde woman who gets the biggest room in a hotel, stuffs it with champagne, loads of clothes, makes a shopping spree trip to Dior, gets her blonde skinny self back to the hotel, sips even more Dom Pérignon while admiring her clothes until she finally invites herself in a young man’s room, right next door to her apartment, ending up in his bed.

Of course I could be overwhelmed by the romantic story and give in to its luxurious useless feeling but then again… Today it’s not my superficial day and I’m not craving for Dom Pérignon so I will do some justice in this fuzzy picture. The campaign is explained by Karl himself (now he couldn’t let that for the voice of someone else, couldn’t he?) and as he talks you through the process of the blonde drinking champagne, shopping her brains out, dumb singing and getting completely intimate with a complete stranger just because she was bored to death and he was handsome and happened to be living next door to her.

I looked at this campaign’s pictures and I sadly said to myself that if this is luxury’s face, than I rather have my eyes starring at a sunflower picture for the rest of my day to wash that bitter feeling off. If luxury requires temporarily usage of one half of brain cell, than I’ll use those legendary 10%, every human brain uses to write an article where I’d have my say about this luxury nonsense!

I imagine there are people who indulge themselves into believing that this kind of advertising campaign reflects a beautiful life, the poetic existence of a carefree fragile beauty. Blonde beauty. I’d say it’s just rotten. To the bone, to the very computer space used for making and the storage of this campaign! Frills and thrills and chills down my spine! If you think this campaign does any justice to a healthy lifestyle and bring some moral value in this fashion world, let me hear you out! If not, and you agree with me, have your supportive word written in a comment so we could all have a style talk about this Dom Pérignon thing…
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Fashion rumor has it that the Gucci Fall Winter 2008 2009 Handbags are the new IT bags of the cold season 2008.

Even if every-fashion- person tries its heart out to convince everyone and their dog that the IT Bag is long dead, some still dare to promote must have totes. Rihanna was chosen People’s 2008 best dressed (maybe that’s why she was rumored bankrupted not long ago) so all eyes are on her. Thus she was spotted with the Babouska Bag from the Gucci fall winter 2008 2009 collection. The It collection for the It girl. The Boho Gucci Chic comes with an important price tag too: $2,295 and it’s available in beige and ebony crystal. Let’s cast them votes now (right after the pictures) : What do you think about Rihanna’s Gucci Babouska Bag? Fug Or Fab? (there’s a picture of the Gucci Babouska Bag after the jump)

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Who needs blood when you’ve got lipstick? Now that’s an artsy phrase wrote for our very dearest fashionista, Kate Moss!

And it’s not just a random phrase, it’s written on a painting! On Kate Moss’ self portrait! She drew herself for eternity when she was going strong with Pete Doherty, the modern poet. Pete actually sold the portrait with a hand receipt written, of course, on a napkin from Soho House, the private club. The buyer (unknown) sells the glorious piece of blood and lipstick art on paper to the highest bidder, in London’s auction house Lyon & Turnbull. It’s maybe not your average fashion subject, but it seems that blood art is considered somehow interesting. As far as I’m concerned, I think Kate’s art got what it deserved in the first place – being sold with a napkin receipt in a bar (I think I would actually have preferred it in lipstick). Do you fancy this portrait? Is it really artsy?

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