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Tavi Gevinson, adolescent fashion blogger extrodinaire and the wondrously youthful Cyndi Lauper have teamed up with Uniqlo to promote both the adorable Orla Kiely collaboration and Uniqlo’s new Color Ankle Length Skinny Jeans. Ad campaigns include both print ads and an adorable commercial that also includes Vena Cava’s Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock as well as supermodel Alek Wek. If you know the names of the others featured please let us know!
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By Contributing Blogger: M. Do.
Photo by Kugenuma Ohana via Twitter
This 4 year old boy sure is happy!! Thumbs up Mom!!
From Japan comes a super cute story and a labor of love project – a mom decided on building her son a cool cardboard Formula 1 replica. As you can possibly tell, mom is a big fan of F1 racing and a fan of Sebastian Vettels’ Red Bull F1 RB8. She studied pictures and videos and added little details like wings and even the correct stickers and logos. Amazing. The cardboard replica even folds up!
Cute, practical, and doesn’t cause peanut allergies. $32
I don’t know about you gals (and guys) but even after hundreds of late night public transit rides, solitary walks home in click-clacking heels into the wee hours of the morning, I get a little anxious about my surroundings. More often than not my hands are fisted around the keys in my jacket pocket.
Here’s an item that may make you feel a little safer.
This cute necklace inconspicuously hides a mini pocket knife within a peanut pendant.
The perfect gift for yourself or for other late night travelers.
Constance Jablonski for Estee Lauder
Following the heels of Banana Republic’s successful Mad Men inspired capsule collection, Estee Lauder will be debuting their very own retro-inspired collection on March 18, just a couple of days before the premiere of Mad Men Season 5 on March 25th. A second collection for Season 6 is currently in the works.
Every time I read about Uniqlo I turn greener and greener with envy. There is an absence of Uniqlo stores over here on the West Coast though they’ve greenlit both a San Francisco and a Los Angeles flagship for the finite date of…eventually.
Make your own toys!
A small shop in Brooklyn – MakerBot Industries will be selling 3D printers to consumers at the $1,795USD price point and up. In the past the 3D printers were very expensive.
The base model is the Replicator. With the 3D printer you can finally make your own custom toys and even household items. So no more last minute runs to Home Depot, just use the Replicator. It is also open source – you can go to a custom website, like Thingiverse.com, to see DIY tips, advice, and how other users use the 3D replicator unit. It’s really cool. I guess I can now make some custom G.I. Joe vehicles.
What is that? Is Laduree, the world renowned patisserie that has the world’s best tasting macarons selling rose petals now? Nope. The image above is blush. All one does is run a brush across the petals before dabbing them on the cheeks for the perfect glow. And I thought Guerlain’s Meteorites were the fanciest thing in the world.
Albion, the manufacturers of Paul & Joe Beaute and Anna Sui‘s cosmetics line is one of the largest cosmetics company in Japan. Supposedly, Albion’s own in-house lines are favored by the Japanese royalty. Needless to say, the brand is top shelf and is well versed in the art of designer collaborations. The Les Merveilleuses de Laduree is another carefully crafted brand that perfectly combines high quality, elegance, and beauty.
The packaging is to die for.
I like Bass shoes. I like Rachel Antonoff’s clothing. The two combined reduces me to a puddle of goo on the floor asking the store clerk for a size 6.
I was a huge fan of their Spring/Summer 2011 Collection with their reworkings of Bass classics in fresh colors and prints that could be styled up or down depending on one’s mood. The collection exuded a feminine and whimsical sensibility on American classics and whispered treasured memories about a time already gone. Personally, I grew up wearing black and white saddle shoes and remembered scuffing them up on the playground and getting terribly tan under the sun. Of course whenever I returned home my mother would complain about the state of my shoes and my unladylike behavior.
On Saturday at midnight, I hit up the Target website to get my Jason Wu fix. Of course, 80% of the items were already sold out, but luckily I was able to score the Sleeveless Chiffon Navy Floral Dress with Gold Belt. My online experience was smooth as there were no gaffes, hiccups, or failures. This was a great surprise as The Great Missoni for Target Debacle of 2011 was an excruciating experience filled with crashes, errors, slow page loads, and most painful of all – items disappearing from cart en route to checkout.
Every so often, there is a new fabric being put to use in clothing. Now it’s recycled coffee beans. Californian based sportswear company VIRUS uses their patent technology on their StayWarm Series of active sportswear clothing for men and women. The StayWarm Performance Series uses Coffeee Charcoal which are recycled coffee grounds infused with the fabric to keep the body warm and moisture out.
This not an April’s fool joke. It’s the Avengers’ Cologne set by JADS. The Marvel set includes: Patriot Cologne for Captain America, Mark VII Cologne for Iron Man, Smash! Cologne for the Hulk, and Worthy Cologne for Thor. Question, where’s the Black Widow perfume?
Ever wanted to learn how to wrap and pack packages for delivery? Want to learn the basics of craft designing? Well, check out Sally J Shim’s blog site: http://shimtokk.squarespace.com/
A Japanese department store wanted to tell customers about their awesome sales event – but got the wrong English translation in their ads. If it’s a f****** sale”, I think it should be more than 20% off.
Business of Fashion (BoF) has put out an in-depth 2-part article on the rise NYC street brand Supreme. Over the years, there have been many urban clothing labels trend in and then fade out, but Supreme has stood over the test of time as a leader in the street scene and fashion world.
Check out the 2-part article @ BoF – Supreme – Part 1; BoF – Supreme – Part 2.
Running along San Francisco’s Mission District are beautiful murals that are not just colorful and nice to look at – it also explores the rich Latin history and the flavor of the Mission District.
Fashion designer Anke Domaske creates a new fabric for clothing apparel makers – it’s made out of milk protein – called Qmilch.
One of the most popular pop-fashion accessory product line over the years is the Casio G-Shock watches. To get all the major G-Shock news, like new colors, product lines, collaborations and limited editions – just head to: My G-Shock. My G-Shock is the 411 on anything and everything about G-Shock watches.
Japanorma host Jonathan Ross interviews the fashion mogul and toy collector Nigo. The founder of BAPE aka A Bathing Ape, Nigo takes us viewers into his fashion lifestyle.
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