Every time I see a new + improved android, I am speechless as to how much closer man + machine will become indistinguishable from one another.  So imagine my reaction when I saw Shan-san (or Geminoid F, the ‘F’ being for ‘Female’) above, a high-tech Japanese humanoid that appears to breathe, blink, + talk about what […]

Marc Newson Packs Heat With Style

Introducing the 486 Parallelo shotgun, industrial designer Marc Newson‘s reinterpretation of the traditional side-by-side shotgun for Beretta.  Featuring a new opening lever design + a receiver with an intricate engraving by Newson, the 486 is simply too beautiful to shoot.  Then again, imagine what a shotgun like this could do for your swagger especially if you’re a chick?! ‘The […]

Congratulations Moschino, It’s A Toy!

It’s no surprise that for his first Moschino fragrance, Jeremy Scott fancied himself with creating a perfume bottle out of a teddy bear called ‘Toy’.  Scott told WWD the bear is both an homage to the teddy-bear dress that Franco Moschino designed in the late Eighties, + Scott’s own “love affair” with teddy bears in […]

Usually, strong women are perceived as being unattractive due to their muscular appearance, which many still consider to look to masculine.  Yet, in Desert Sound Colony’s music video for ‘I Get Fixed’ featuring 20 year veteran Colette Nelson, director Callie Barlow shows the analogy between the the world of bodybuilding with that of the fashion industry.  By […]

A Fall Collection Inspired By Internet Motifs

As if hashtags never existed in so many patterns before, for its Fall collection, House of Cards exploited that symbol + more by exploring + finding inspiration in internet motifs.  Of the many patterns present, including some patterns made up of graphic black lines on white backgrounds, which look to be pinched, the subtlety of […]

The World Seen Through The Lens Of Ann Menke Is Definitely Beautiful

Ann Menke’s approach to travel + fashion photography has always been with a careful eye for location, location, location.   Sought after by industry heavies including Condé Nast Traveler + GQ to find exotic locations for fashion shoots, came naturally as an expert global explorer + anthropologist of sorts.  Able to create narratives through her lens, […]

For #FlashbackFriday, here’s the 411 on film ‘The A-Z of ’90s Slang’ directed by the Layzell Bros.  Starring some of the most nostalgic animation of all time, the words as much as the visuals, represent a perfect record of how a whole generation communicated by using as little as one word, yet loaded with a lot of meaning. […]