Beautiful fashion film for Purified Footwear, directed by Anthony Burger. With a Pablo Nerudo poem + music by Phillip Glass, you know it’s good!
(via WE ARE SELECTERS)
Miansai Is Now Hooking Up With Women
Premiering today on miansai.com is Miansai’s first women’s collection, comprised of bracelets, rings + necklaces .
(photo: Courtesy Photo)
Although established as a men’s brand back in 2008, a lot of Miansai’s bracelets were already loved by women as well. Yet, for the ladies, there will be more feminine offerings like popular rose gold as well as gold, silver + select brass pieces. There will also be more pastels + brights to choose from.
Besides rose metal options, the Mini Hook bracelet will have a smaller hook than the original + offered only in sterling silver or solid gold. Part of the women’s collection includes the Nova (top left), retailing for $265, is a hand-linked chain bracelet with a colored nylon rope closure while the Naomi, retailing for $215, is a structured cuff with a barrel closure.
Available for purchase now on miansai.com.
(via WWD)
Killer Streetwear Trifecta Create Sick Kicks
Seriously…..adidas Originals, BAPE + UDFTD, together, plus camo? Can it get any better! Apparently, these three streetwear heavyweights have teamed up to create a tiny capsule collection, reinterpreting the adidas Campus 80s + the adidas Original ZX 5000, with pale camo-inspired designs. Yet, for as much as I love the adidas Campus 80s, their collab version (below) of the adidas Original ZX 500 is crazy + sure to be a true fave amongst sneakerheads everywhere.
You have a rugged looking sneaker, covered in pale camo then highlighted by red, white + blue stripes, with the BAPE + UDFTD logos in gold on the back. The other shoes in the collection, black + olive versions of the adidas Campus 80s, have more subtle detail.
With the shoe in full-on black or olive suede, the tongue + inner portion of the sneaker are covered in the same pale camo, with the same BAPE + UNDFTD gold logos – Not as obnoxious but still quite cool looking.
Dropped this weekend, at adidas concept stores, if you can’t get your hands on them there, then try some of the limited retailers like Trés Bien Shop, said to have them in by 4/20.
Happy hunting!
(via GQ)
Now This Is The Way To Display Your Favorite Fedora
Designed by Philippe Starck for flos, the ‘Chapeau’ table lamp can display any, if not all of your hats with pride. By taking the concept of a hat stand and turning it into a lamp, the hat rested on it acts as a lampshade. Clever way of combining two items with disparate functions – a hat stand + a lamp. In a way, one could also have this piece as an interactive sculpture.
Using the basic cross-shaped form of the lamp (seen below), diffuses the light beautifully under your rested hat.
(via designboom)
Nobuyoshi Araki Plays At Being A Submissive Behind The Lens
Brilliant photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, known for his sexy shots of female nudes engaged in bondage or ‘Kinbaku’ (a form of erotic art where there is pleasure behind binding + being bound) + suggestive florals, recently took pause by pointing his lens on Japan’s sakura flower. Rarely seen in any of Araki’s work, the pink sakura flower, in his hands, managed to have an ominous yet dark romanticism to it, as he used vintage Polaroid film to great effect.
With cherry blossom season starting earlier this year, an annual occurrence in Tokyo, Araki captured this natural marvel at Tokyo’s Hamarikyu Gardens + Aoyama Cemetery. It’s kind of an ironic juxtaposition between life + death and the organic + inorganic, with these locations serving as backdrops to these blooms. When referring to his pics, Araki mentioned to NOWNESS, ‘The city’s skyscrapers appeared as gigantic tomb stones in the background. Then at the graveyard I photographed a beautiful woman with a baby in her arms and another child happily running around the trees. For the first time, I realized that cherry blossom brings happy memories too.’
Attracted to the cherry trees blossoming but not one to go + watch, Araki understands the appeal. Yet, as the flowers only blossom for one to two weeks out of the whole year, an ephemeral quality is born, which the photographer feels people sympathize with. In a way, these photographs serve as memento mori for the sakura flower.
(via NOWNESS)
Rivieras By Rafael de Cardenas
Isn’t it just like architect Rafael de Cardenas, of Architecture At Large, to create such dope patterns for Rivieras, the classic French slip-on? Available in four colorways, stepping out in either of these, would render you guilty of having slick elegance. Rafael told T Magazine, ‘I like their form + shape as well as their nod to the 60’s + 70’s French Riviera summer culture. I also like that they are called a ‘leisure shoe’, almost as though wearing them might relax you regardless of whether you’re leisurely or not.’
Available at Opening Ceremony + Colette.
(via AD France)
‘Birds Of Paradise’ That Go To Your Head
Don’t know if it’s my love for parrots that slights my judgement or if it’s my love for old Hollywood glam but, in or not, feathers to me, are always in fashion, especially colorful ones. When it comes to hats, the more feathers the better, like these above from the ‘Birds Of Paradise’ hat collection by Ukranian milliner, Ruslan Baginskiy. Full of poetic beauty, it’s no surprise this collection was Inspired by mystical romanticism, paradise birds, otherworldly love + the work of Georgian composer Giya Kancheli.
(via WE ARE SELECTERS)
Naomi Goodsir’s Leather Creations Are True Genius
Aussie designer Naomi Goodsir works only with the best when it comes to her hats, bags + body accoutrements. With a history in couture millinery, after receiving her fashion degree, she went on to work with a close protege of Elsa Schaiparelli + it shows.
With hats made by hand in the tradition of chapellerie, Goodsir scours antique spots + manufacturers of raw materials to achieve her inimitable masterpieces. No hat is the same, as they are made to measure. Her reinterpretations of the Aviator hat also double as jewelry, with long side flaps that can be wrapped around the wearer’s neck as a necklace or scarf (see below) or even as long single earring, with that previous look in mind.
As for the handbags, the same master craftsmanship + quality materials are used for her creations. Some are cut + sewn by hand, using quality skins including exotic like crocodile from Australia. Other aspects of her handbags are created with the help of artisans Naomi uses from Australia, France + Italy, whom generation after generation contribute to the prestige of belle maroquinerie (beautiful leather). However, the sweetest feature of Naomi’s handbags is the vintage Australian penny they come with for luck.
I see how Naomi also sees the relationship to leather being the closest thing to human skin when worn not only just as an accessory but as a ‘body accoutrement’, as she calls it. For her, these pieces are all about creating a detail, a focal point, a compliment, to be worn with enjoyment, enhancing ones persona. Talk about drama.
(via ASVOF)