JWP Epicenter Project by Prada
The JWP Epicenter Project by Prada is a collection that depicts floor plans and storefronts from their highly popular flagships, including Aoyama in Tokyo, Broadway in New York, and Montenapoleone Uomo e Donna in the label’s native Milan. Herzog & de Muron, and Rem Koolhaus are responsible for making these pretty cool shirts.
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Lego Catwalk by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac (AKA JC/DC), a world renowned fashion designer with a flair for the whimsical, designed “outfits” for a four minute LEGO fashion show.
For his new collection, French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac has designed a watch inspired by everyone’s favourite childhood building blocks, Lego! He has called the collection Pop Hour.
“Time of the Sky” by Ryohei Yoshiyuki
‘Time of the sky” is a watch designed by Ryohei Yoshiyuki that displays an image of the sky when you are checking the time.
It acknowledges the old fashioned way of telling time which was done by looking at the sky and checking the position of the sun.
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Keep Money In Mattress
A lot of people over the last six months have been putting money in mattresses. The problem is that mattresses can catch fire, or you might not be able to get the cash when you need it, or your kids may throw them away. Better to take your mattress with you.
The wallet “provides investors with a secure and comfortable place to put their money”.
It’s the same size as a regular wallet, but comes with “the ubiquitous warning tag that should not be removed under penalty of law.”
Intimacy Collection by Frederick B
Intimacy is the latest inspired collection from FredericK B. Presenting ‘intimate set’ diamond and platinum rings with fine white asscher cut, princess cut and brilliant cut diamonds, coupled with stunning white, intense yellow and natural pink diamonds, pink, blue and yellow sapphires and natural chocolate coloured diamonds.
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Custom Skully Vans by Dan Springer
Dan Springer made these custom Vans slip-ons for a group show at Omy gallery in Toronto. The Custom Skully Vans are velcroed in and interchangeable so you can switch up colors.
RGB Glasses by Luis Porem
Portuguese designer Luis Porem has sent images of his new work RGB rainbow glasses. The structure of the RGB glasses has an internal channel where the colourful ink passes through, painting it with the colours you desire, allowing you to have a different look every time you want.Made in plastic with a flexible part in the arm of the structure. Filled with water based ink.
Designer Gas Mask, High Fashion Protection by Diddo Velema
You don’t need to sacrifice fashion for safety. Fortunately for you artist Diddo Velema has catered for your psychotic needs with these three designer gas masks unveiled in Bucharest at Luxury Show 2008.
Velema talks about his designer gas masks:
“Deep down, we are afraid we may never be satisfied. An expanding archive of branded myths and icons feeds this fear. Designer Gas Masks is an attempt to visualize this state of mind. Because it is only by first acknowledging and then challenging fear that we will all be able to breathe a little easier.”
Cage Lamps by Diesel Creative Team for Foscarini
Fashion brand Diesel have collaborated with lighting brand Foscarini and furniture brand Moroso to create the Diesel Home Collection of furniture and lighting.
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Diesel Collection Cage Floor Lamp
Diesel Collection Cage Mic Suspension Lamp
Diesel Collection Cage Rocket Table Lamp
Diesel Collection Cage Grande Suspension Lamp
Diesel Collection Cage Mic Table Lamp
Diesel Collection Cage Piccola Suspension Lamp
Chanel Perspex Briefcase
Karl Lagerfeld has presented “Chanel Perspex Briefcase,” an elegant and mostly black take on power suiting for Chanel that included this fantastically witty take on the working gal’s briefcase.
The transparent briefcase comes with slots to hold a purse, lipstick, sunglasses, iPod and other ladies’ stuff. We are not assuming it to be just a catwalk prop, so we might see the thing for real.
Sneaker by Zaha Hadid for Lacoste
Lacoste have partnered with the internationally renown Zaha Hadid Architects to release a capsule collection of footwear. The Pritzker Prize winning deconstructivist architect used a digitized version of the iconic Lacoste crocodile logo as a basis to explore surfaces with repeated patterns.
Louis Vuitton Stephen Sprouse Graffiti Party
Thursday night when Louis Vuitton paid tribute to the New York glamor punk with a triumvirate of events splashed with graffiti and Day-Glo. A cocktail party at the Greene Street store, where all manner of Sprousified LV merch was on display, including specially reissued Sprouse LV bags from 2001, was followed by a preview of “Rock On Mars,” an installation of original Sprouse memorabilia at Deitch Projects on Wooster Street.
Secret Agent Watches by LG Electronics & Brickhouse Security
According to Hipstomp from Core77, LG Electronics and a company called Brickhouse Security have crammed the technology for things we used to carry into a wristwatch.
LG’s GD910 is being touted as “the world’s first market-ready Touch Watch Phone” and features video calling.
BrickHouse offers the Secret Agent Camcorder Watch, a wrist watch with a hidden camera for taking photo and recording video clips. Looks like a normal watch, the Secret Agent Camcorder Watch has a 0.3 Megapixel camera that can capture 640×480 images and 352×288 CIF AVI videos.
Vertu Boucheron 150 Cellphone Crafted from Solid Gold
The Vertu Boucheron 150 could be the world’s first phone made from solid gold. Supposedly, it “took 1,000 hours to cut into shape, 700 hours to hand polish, and more than 500 hours to build.
Created to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Boucheron French jewelry house, the handset does look like a Vertu, but a crippled and weird one. And if it’s beautiful or not, it’s up for you to decide.
Camper Shoes by Jame Hayon
World-renowned designer, artist, illustrator and ceramicist Jame Hayon is now stepping out with all the right colours into the world of shoes.
“I wanted to find a form that stylized the foot, like the tap dancing shoes. I have always liked the character of dance shoes because they remind me of a music-hall. I wanted to make a simple shoe but one that had character, in solid colours but that were special enough to give identity to a way of dressing. If for me, and also for many others, glasses are important in creating the personality of a person, I think that shoes should be so too”.
Lego Silver Rings
These Silver rings are the coolest rings I have ever come across. The great part about these silver rings is that you can attach any Lego piece you want to the top of it. You can get creative by using any brick or piece of Lego and create your own unique design.
They come in three different models, with one ($140), two ($151) and four studs ($165).
New York Chocolate Fashion Show
The edible catwalk extravaganza launches the New York Chocolate Show, an annual weekend-long event where 60 chocolatiers pack into a 55,000 square foot venue offering free tastings and professional demonstrations of chocolate recipes.
The unique costumes were created by chocolatiers and pastry chefs for the catwalk show on the Hudson River. Models, dressed in carefully crafted chocolate outfits, depicted Lara Croft, Bat Girl and a warrior princess among others.
