Cure Your Winter Blues With COMME des GARÇONS ‘Fluo’ Wallets

Part of their S/S13 collection, COMME des GARÇONS has decided to gift us the early release of the small leather goods above.  Comprised of wallets, billfolds + card holders, in fluorescent colors, they just can’t be beat – I especially love the gold logo against the green.   Available in-store + online (soon) at RODEN GRAY. […]

Could It Be, A Grace Coddington Doll?

(photo: Browns) Well Here She Is! For those of us who’s love affair with Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington began after watching ‘The September Issue’ to then run + buy his/her copy of ‘Grace’, her memoir, I’m sure, like me, you still wish she just moved in + called it a day.  But since that […]

Fashion From A GIFferent Perspective ‘In Bloom’

If in space, what’s a girl to wear? Well according to stylist Anna Meedham + photography duo Meinke Klein, nothing is more befitting than looks by Simone Rocha, Meedham Kirchhoff, Erdem + Dries Van Noten – at least for the GIF project, ‘In Bloom’. The last installment of SHOWstudio’s Flora series, we see models from different perspectives, surrounded by flowers in motions […]

How fast can you tell time?  Well, Halmos New York + their Dexter Sinister Watch Wyoscan 0.5 Hz puts you to the test. But how does this work, you ask – by the reverse-engineering by casio with a tiny computer replacing existing electronics + programmed to slowly render current time from left to right across liquid crystal display, […]

Bags With Geometric Flair Take You To The Caribbean For Spring

(photo: Paula Foresti) There’s no mistaking designer Paula Cademartori‘s inspiration came from The Cayman Islands for her S/S13 bag collection.  The bags throughout never fall short from embodying the beachside vistas, summer sunsets and natural materials such as palm  + rattan.  Featuring patterns + structured shapes with great attention to detail, playing up their 1950’s nuances […]

Deborah Lippman Teases With ‘GIRLS’ Inspired Nail Colors

Now, I don’t know if you, like me, when word of ‘GIRLS’ surfaced in the beginning , I wasn’t buying it, especially with the second-hand nepotism on the coattails of famous parents.  But like most, I immediately surrendered and became hooked, making me to think a lot, especially about relationships.  The show gave us a moment of […]

Check Out The Amazing Illustrations By Hubert Kolodjeski Of Some Of Fashion’s Finest

Anna Piaggi Hubert Kolodjeski‘s illustrations of famous fashion notables and one famous author, created for Polska magazine, truly ‘raise the bar’ in a whole new direction.  Although stylized, I love how they all have a primitive feel with all the dot shading, patterns and organic shapes.  The fact that he chose to do them only […]

How Different Patterns Can Play Nice Together, By Manon Kundig

When I first came across the pattern play in Antwerp designer Manon Kundig‘s ‘Bowerbird’ collection, I was simply floored.  Inspired by the strange Bowerbird from the tropics of New Guinea + Northern Australia, this bird is simply a hoarder that amasses colorful scraps in large quantities which is exactly how the collection looks.  Other inspirations included […]