Fashion: Etnies 2008 Spring SEED Project Collection

The Etnies PAS DA collection was clearly foreshadowing from skate label Etnies as they begin to integrate a ecologically friendly philosophy into their products. New for the 2008 Spring collection, the SEED Project has incorporated clean aesthetics to go alongside with their green friendly production and material use such as bamboo, hemp, vegetable dyes and cotton blends. The collection seen here includes footwear and t-shirts designed by San Diego artist Gary Benzel. 1% of all proceeds from the sale of this collection will be donated to the Sierra Club's 1% For the Planet initiative which promotes environmentally friendly initiatives. Available now at select Etnies dealers.
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Home: Scratch it! Sniff it! that's just wallpaper!

FRUIT COCKTAIL COLLECTION

The Fruit Cocktail Collection began when Michael Angelo asked if we could actually make scratch & sniff wallpaper. The result is a fantastic trio of hand screened fruit wallpaper designed by Michael and Flavor Paper. And, when scratched, B-A-N-A-N-A-S! smells like bananas, Cherry Forever like cherries, and Tutti Frutti like…tutti frutti! Visual AND olfactory satisfaction from the walls.

So cool!

Best of all, a percentage of sales goes to the Human Rights Campaign to help achieve human equality.

Where? @ Flavor Paper

Events: SHOWOFF 2007, oct 17-22, Paris

2006 attracted nearly 15 000 visitors. This year, Show Off for its second edition expand twice its size, including a theater with 650 seats where a program full of surprises will present performances, videos and other new ideas.

2007 is also the year for kids with 200 sqm dedicated to them.

The fair still maintains its charming, relaxed atmosphere with the arrival of new international galleries and keeps the focus on cutting-edge-art content.

booking & visiting information

Show Off
Espace Pierre Cardin
Nearly 40 contemporary art galleries
from 17 to 22 october 2007
(opening on invitation 16 october 2007)

1 avenue Gabriel, 75008 Paris
Subways : Concorde (ligne 1) ou Champs-Elysées (lines 1 &8)
Opening Hours : from wednesday to saturday 12 to 8 pm

Ticket Prices
Ticket : 5 euro / Free for children under 18 years old
Activities and conférences : free
Catalogue 15 euro

Events: "Kurikku" Tokyo Art Beat 3rd Year Anniversary Party! , October 13th 2007,Tokyo

A celebration for the Japanese and international crowd of art-goers and creators mixing in Tokyo. A celebration of three years of buzzing excitement across Tokyo, three years of fun and entertainment beyond television, three years of cultural wealth and three years of free choice!
Come and meet with the team, the users, artists, venue owners, and special guests.
Grab the new TAB-shirts from an exclusive third line designed by 5 popular artists and designers (arrive early for the special giveaway!), enjoy a retrospective slideshow of the best of TAB's third year, and don't miss TAB's surprises!

Visual and musical delight will be provided through the evening by the Minimal Tokyo Crew and special guests.

Bring Your Friends!!

Location: Super Deluxe, 3-1-25-B1F Nishi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031
Phone: 03-5412-0515 Fax: 03-5412-0516

Prices: Soft drinks and food available at the venue from ¥500, Alcohol from ¥700

Design&Events: The London Design Festival 15-25 September 2007

The London Design Festival is now in its fifth year and has become a fixture on the international creative calendar. With over 200 projects and audiences of 300,000 it has quickly become one of the most important design events in the world.

The Festival is an umbrella brand and works in partnership with a wide network of organisations and individuals. They range from museums and retailers, to educational institutes, creative businesses, trade shows, magazines, designers and international cities.

London's design scene has an unparalleled range of diverse contributors, and an extraordinay breadth and depth in comparison to other international cities - the Festival aims to mirror this unique eclecticism. Meanwhile, the number of international projects continues to grow, ensuring its global relevance and reputation.

Still a young event, the Festival continues to develop and evolve, creating new networks, stimulating growth in the sector, increasing the opportunities for trade, and enhancing the reputation of London and the UK as a place for creative excellence and innovation.

Street Culture: This is New Rave

Born in UK last year, New Rave turns up in the rest of Europe, Japan and USA. The codes of the street culture are dressing in neon colours , hyper energetically gesturing and talking with a lot of exclamation marks!

Every street culture movement is given a name by someone or other. Often it is the media that desperately tries to find a term for something inexplicable, thus creating the trend by themselves. That is why New Rave, which originally emerged from musical backgrounds, was named by the undeniably British music magazine, NME. As you might already have expected, the name is a spoof of the popular 80’s “New Wave” music, but literally meaning at the same time.

We know it hurts the eye but flamboyant fashion in fluorescent colours is one of the essential elements of New Rave. As usual, some journalists already predicted the arrival of fluorescent colours in town last year, and obviously their forecast wasn’t all that far off. As you might spotted on your city’s streets, pink and yellow fluorescent colours popularised by the New Ravers are spilling over into major brands! Not surprisingly, the street wear movement caught the haute couture’s attention: So, for this 2007 autumn/winter collection, cosmic-patterned dresses and jumpers were presented by Jeremy Scott. He happens not only to be Madonna’s costume designer, but also released a 12″ full of Electroclash for the New Yorker label A Touch Of Class. Even Martin Margiela famous for his graceful style has announced capes and shoes in fluorescent colours.

New Rave was not only responsible for pouring the idea of “fluorescence” into the world of fashion, this trend also invoked some strange visual phenomena in recent music videos. For example, look at this bizarre sequence in the Klaxons’ clip Magick: There is fluorescent green fluid spurting out of the band members’ eyes. Okay, this is obviously a citation of 70’s and 80’s horror flicks of the gruesome kind. But still, it so New Rave to turn the spurting blood into something fluorescent green… and it really manages to look disturbing enough!

Thanks to Pingmag

Design: Color your nights

Designed by a young german designer, Zascho Petkow, Bunte Betten is a collection of colorful beds, which illuminate your nights.

Just to sleep different...

Fashion: Marc Jacobs X Vans, Fall 2007

Marc Jacobs has choosen for the Vans Fall 2007 collection the classic Authentic and Slip On silhouettes in canvas and added a rubber toe cap. The colors are totally flashy: we love or we hate ;)

Available exclusively at Marc by Marc Jacobs stores.

Price: $85USD

Fashion: French Winter 2008 by A.P.C.

A.P.C. for Winter 2008 is definitely an elegant collection defined by its unique style and quality.
Womenswear & menswear are cleverly presented style by style just to inspire a day by day attitude. Minimalist and efficient...



By the way, what does A.P.C. mean? "Atelier de Production et de Creation".

I love A.P.C!

A free paper catalog is issued every season. To get it, just fill in a form in the website.

Design: Fish bowls variation, Roger Arquer

This young and talented designer has designed a collection of thoughtful fish bowls (15 variations).

"Each piece examines a topic or suggests a solution to an issue," says Roger Arquer.
The above design, called "XS or XL", illustrates the relationship between a big fish and small fish coexisting.

Exposition: Conversational Spanish 02