The most glorious handbag i’ve seen in a very long time, from Taeseok Kang. It’s as if Spider (Rhys) Webb from The Horrors was scalped, lined and had zippers attached. Now where is that spare $3,000.
t/y trendland
Lovely product layouts from the fine people at Present and Correct.
Their web store is gorgeously laid out treasure trove of stationery, packaging and ‘ephemera’ all of which you didn’t think you needed, but all of which you can’t imagine getting by without. These Wooden Geo Blocks from Russia are a prime example. I don’t exactly know why, but i need these beautiful little things in my life. Roll on payday.
soon.
Gorgeous Two Part Necklace sets from Melbourne designer Dani M (Danielle Maugeri).
As a fan of all thing geometric and minimal, i have fallen in love with this collection, dubbed ‘I Won’t Go Breaking Your Heart’. These pieces are designed to be worn together, or to be split and given to the wearers significant other. A fantastic modern take on the friendship/relationship charms of our youth.
These items can be found via Dani’s webstore, online at Alice Euphemia, or in the physical Alice Euphemia store in Melbourne.
on The Shock Of The New
If you’re in Melbourne, get along to this night. It’s going to be something else!
Photo: Hannah Spence
Design : Simona Kapitolina
Styling: Jess Hill
Model: Hillary Richardson
A sneak peek at work from my latest series, Misfortune Cookies.
The latest window offering from Hermes on Collins Street in Melbourne. While these fuzzy late night photos don’t do them justice, the idea of ‘framing’ and highlighting new products in each window with L shaped mountboard and picture frame samples is a good one, and the outcome is superb.
While I’m in no position financially to be trawling the Hermes windows, each time they update them, i make a point of stopping by to have a look. Because of this, I think that the ’Paris End’ of Collins street could learn a few lessons from Hermes on how to best use their vast frontage to not only display their wares, but to act as mini galleries for the thousands of potential customers that pass them everyday. Prada, Bally, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, I’m looking at you. Lift your game.
on Album Art
The album art for Chet Fakers new record, ‘Thinking in textures.’
on clumps of matter
The wall of the ladies toilets at The Espy
The floor of the Big CIty Lights cyc.
Comme des Garcons Fall/Winter 2013 Collection
From HotelFashionland: “Rei Kawakubo offered an intellectually playful collection of two-dimensional clothes — dresses that were flat as a pancake, jackets with sleeves that looked more like envelopes than like cylinders, and trousers that gave the models the physique of a chalk outline. In their bright plastic helmet bobs atop clothes cut big and flat, her models looked like a parade of beguiling, clownish paper dolls, their silhouettes as unfettered as preschool cutouts. It was fabulous. Structured fabrics in clear, dense hues set the tone, but Kawakubo also offered megapatterns, both dots and flowers. When she tired of flat textures, she went for shine, not of the chichi embroidery genre but a type resembling those giant iridescent gift bags you buy at The Container Store. And just when you thought you grasped this big-and-flat thing, that it was all in good fun, she sent out some girls in rose prints with their faces shrouded in matching executioner’s hoods, in fabric, for a trace of her signature subversive tension.”
