Design&Events: 100% Chocolate Cafe inspiration, Tokyo

Within the framework of the international event "Salon du Chocolat", Masamichi Katayama has lovely designed a temporary in-store inspired by his original 100% Chocolate Cafe, created in 2004 @ Kyobashi, Tokyo.

The fair will be held January 24-29 at the Shinjuku Isetan Department Store.

Events: Haute-Couture Spring / Summer 2007, Paris

In Paris

Design: Stairs designed like DNA

The DNA stair is the first in a range of unique staircases from the designer Geoffrey Packer.

Specialising in experimental 3D design, he has created some unusual designs, which have wo awards and been published all over the world.

DNA V4.0

Events: Snow Day in Toronto, Canada

Last time, I reported about Newmindspace, an interactive public art movement, founded by 2 students in Toronto.
After parties in the subway and street cars, capture flag games, picnics and massive bubble battle, they propose a Snow Day:
Snow Day will be a fun winter afternoon with snowpeople, sledding and epic snowball fight!
Notice for this event will come very shortly before the event based on weather reports. The first major snow Toronto has, either on a week-end or school cancellation day, will trigger this event/
Snowball fight!
Pics coming soon.

Fashion: Fendi, remixed by urban street

Fendi, the Italian luxury brand owned by LVMH, wants to team up with Japanese "street" label A Bathing Ape, created by the 34-year-old entrepreneur Nigo.

"Street" style, in Japan, is not about the mass-produced styles that are fairly common in the US when the term is applied, but about high-quality, contemporary designs that appeal to the next generation of consumers, who are looking for uniqueness at any price, but not necessarily for luxury.
Nigo is succeeding where fashion brands with a more obviously elevated product have failed: by building a profitable global empire without sacrificing credibility, not only in Japan but all around the world.This cross-cultural arrangement indicates a subtle shift in the global marketing of luxury goods.
According to Susie Rushton, this mix of the urban and the über-luxe is the future of fashion.