PSFK sat down to talk with Diesel Founder Renzo Rosso about inspiration, the Internet, nature and more.

Hedi Slimane, a fashion designer and cultural photographer, recently took some striking black and white portraits at Coachella, and his photo-diary form the event is certainly worth a look.  The collection includes spontaneous shots, stark, intimate portraits and some scattered still life photographs.
The forty-year-old French designer was awarded the International Designer of the Year by the CFDA in 2002 and boasts a strong website with a photography blog holding over 1200 images.

[via Urban Outfitters Blog]

As we reported back in September, there’s suddenly a whole new world out there to fashion designers who may not have the cash or the desire to stage an expensive runway show. The pervasiveness of the web and accessibility of high quality multimedia equipment/tools have made it possible for designers to reach a much wider audience at a lower cost, both to the environment and to their bank accounts. For a while, this practice of shunning the catwalk was limited to underground, avant garde designers constrained by small budgets. But by the end of 2008, more and more mainstream fashion [...]

We’ve been following the work of culturepreneur Jeff Staple for a while now, so we were pretty excited to hear that Nike Considered, a project he and his team began developing more than four years ago, would be making its mass market debut next month. Nike’s upcoming Air Jordan XX3 will be the brand’s first truly green sneaker, made fully “Considered” – which, according to Staple’s blog, must maintain these benchmarks:
1. Must be made from recyclable materials. (i.e., 100% recyclable plastics or veg-tanned leathers.)
2. Zero Toxins. Zero chemical adhesives. (no glue.)
3. Mechanical vs Chemical. (using mechanics and engineering to put [...]

Over the last few years, pop-up stores have moved from being a novelty to a phenomenon to a retail rite of passage. Now, hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about some label or other setting up temporary shop in a shipping crate, public park, or even inside another store altogether.
But there’s something different about the Comme des Garcons version, which has never called itself a “pop-up shop” but rather prefers the nomme de guere “guerilla store.” CDG has been operating guerrilla stores since February 2004, setting up their first shop in East Berlin, then next in Barcelona [...]