An article in The New York Times today highlights the increasing tendency of teenagers to greet each other by hugging, to the bewilderment of their parents, who are more accustomed to handshakes. Not just limited to family, good friends, and lovers, hugging has become a standard way to say hi in high school hallways. There [...]
May 27, 2009
May 11, 2009
Zaha Hadid + Lacoste
The anticipated collaboration between architect Zaha Hadid and sportswear brand Lacoste has finally taken shape, and it doesn’t disappoint. The shoes, rubberized structures that wrap around the leg (angle high for men and calf high for women) are as conceptual and beautiful as Hadid’s architectural creations themselves.
[via WWD - subscription req'd]
May 5, 2009
Novel Japanese Innovations Encourage Cooking
It’s hard to get kids to see the joy in cooking when they could just drive through McDonald’s and get a happy meal with a toy for no effort whatsoever. In Japan, there are whole lines of entertaining cooking tools that are great for even big people taking on the skillet. CScout Japan profiles several [...]
May 4, 2009
Where the Wild Things Are Figurines
There is a ton of anticipation over Spike Jonze’s upcoming reimagining of the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are, and now enthusiasts can own a little piece of the magic. Medicom has produced a set of Where the Wild Things Are figurines, including a range of wild things creatures as well as the [...]
May 1, 2009
Kenya Hara on Designing Happiness
Muji art director Kenya Hara, who says he doesn’t design things, but rather happiness, talks about the concept of emptiness.
[via Influx Insights]
April 30, 2009
Wine That Wants to Be Judged by Its Label
The fashion designer who brought “trucker chic” to the mainstream is now producing wine - and sources say it might actually be quite good. Ed Hardy is known mainly for loud, graffitied t-shirts, trucker hats, and jeans worn by the likes of Britney Spears (and her kids), but designer Christian Audigier is now betting that [...]
April 14, 2009
Payless Puts One Green Foot Forward
The newest mainstream company to put on its green thumb is Payless, which has just brought organic shoe line zoe&zac to shelves. Following its string of extremely successful designer collaborations over the past few years, hopefully this will be one more step toward mainstreaming ethically sound consumerism.
[via Racked via Fashion Herald]
April 7, 2009
Kidrobot Summer ‘09 is Nouveau-Punk
Sure it looks a lot like BAPE or a Kanye West album cover, but that’s what the kids want this summer. And we actually like how wearable and unpretentious Kidrobot’s new “KidPunk” line is, even if they do describe it as “combining 80’s punk edginess with KidRobot fun.”
[via STREEThing]
March 30, 2009
Vice Mag: My City’s Hotter Than Your City
As we mentioned, the Vice Magazine fashion issue (pig and all) has hit the streets and as always, it’s a great read. In their city-vs.-city matchup, the magazine makes some bold claims about what’s in and what’s out across the globe. In a nutshell, it boils down to this:
Girls in NYC are sluts; boys are [...]
March 25, 2009
Vice Fashion Issue
There is so much serious, snooty editorial about fashion, we always appreciate when Vice comes out with its Fashion issue. Their most recent is no different. From the interview which hails Kai Kühne as a renegade fashion star before getting him to admit that he doesn’t understand fashion, to the article which claims in all [...]
March 23, 2009
Stella McCartney Boot-Tights
In this economy, some women may be looking for ways to feel more powerful when they get dressed in the morning. These boots by Stella McCartney are a sure bet.
Feel the Movies (Like When Jackie Chan Kicks You in the Chest)
The movies aren’t usually considered a sensory experience, despite several historical attempts at scented cinema dating back to 1916. But soon you may be able to actually feel what’s going on in the movies - perhaps a Michael Bay explosion or an Angelina Jolie drop kick…or even better, to experience a real emotional reaction based [...]
March 11, 2009
Bulletproof Handkerchief for Paranoid Gangsters
Or for anyone else who wants to look sharp without compromising their safety, really. The maker of the cool man’s Snuggie, the Blankoat, has now come out with a bulletproof handkerchief dubbed The Damned, made from “lemon Military Grade Ballistic Strength Aramid Fibre - to protect the hearts of men.”
Sruli Recht
March 9, 2009
Buy Designer, Do Good at New Paris Store
If you still have the disposable income to buy Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Stella McCartney, you might also want to buy a plane ticket to Paris and visit a new store in the Marais called Merci. The shop is the brainchild of high-end childrenswear designers Bonpoint, who decided to use their fashion industry muscles [...]
TOMS Shoes’ Blake Mycoskie Talks to PSFK
The one-for-one model isn’t working so well for OLPC, but it’s doing wonders for a small company called TOMS Shoes, which donates one pair of shoes for every pair sold. The shoes have a distinctly traditional look to them (they’re modeled after the traditional Argentinian alpargata, a simple slip-on canvas shoe), but they’ve certainly crossed [...]






