lovin’ lanvin – only the future will tell

it’s always tricky to accept that the lines we feel deep deep love for may not deliver when it comes to the apparently cool collab with also lovable h&m.; 1+1 should = 2 but hasn’t always in the past. we will have to wait until november 20th to sort out all of these mixed emotions with lanvin’s turn. in the meantime, enjoy the full collection video. by kl

CATEGORIES: clips, fashion

jjjjound – ccchromeo







jjjjound set up with chromeo for the release of their new title and treated them with a cccchromeo
so if you’re as addict as we are to the site that won’t ever post a comments or a link, this hidden batch will surely please you. not so sure about the soundtrack, though… by pp.

CATEGORIES: eye candy

best made axes – lumbers in tha city





i guess anyone walking to partners and spade, saturday surf shop or any trendy store in the city wondered what the hell is that about to sell axes?!? and i guess i’m not the only one fed up by half the population in nyc fucking around in lumber jack outfits while they never set a foot in any forest but anyway… those axes are really gorgeous. even if i wouldn’t harm a tree for anything in the world, i could really imagine one of these beauty in the corner of my living room. that would be a bit yuppi-ish, aint it? so just for eyes by pp

CATEGORIES: design, fashion mens, perfect gift

david hockney – fresh flowers



“hockney began painting flowers in bed just after buying his first iphone in 2009. rendering the simple one- or two-stem arrangements placed in a glass for him each morning by his boyfriend, chef john fitzherbert, the artist experimented with the iphone painting app, its variety of brush techniques, colors, and line densities.

twenty of his closest friends began receiving e-mails with iphone-painted flowers attached, including curator and cultural historian charlie scheips, who immediately saw the potential for an exhibit, especially when the number of hockney iphone-painted flowers (and later, ipad-painted flowers) grew to over 600: “this is a serious component of work, in the context of david’s five-decade career,” says scheips, who curated the show. “these flowers are ‘fresh’ in how new they are, how they’ve been sent, how they’re viewed, and the way they generate light.”

now on view in paris at the pierre berge and yves saint laurent foundation. by pp + v

CATEGORIES: art

yes to Noh Suntag

at least these works from the korean born artist noh suntag, bring to us the eerie beauty of being lost in the masses of culture. coming from a background in political studies which evolved into photography, his main work involves collecting, and communicating through images regarding wars and the division of the korean peninsular in order to expose the way in which various forms of social violence in contemporary korea are linked to the war of half a century ago. by kl

CATEGORIES: art, musings

the pathetic state of fashion: kim kardashian W magazine cover

if fashion was to be aspirational i must admit that they have lost their way in the desperate state of economic affairs. how pathetic is the state of the fashion world when you go from creativity, to celebrity, and all the way down to trash. what do these people stand for? what is there to aspire to? why are they pushed onto our consciousness? what have they left behind for us to aspire to? are we to be admire trash talk, lack of talent, lack of intelligence, and lack of any creativity in these beings? the answer is yes of course. fashion’s legitimacy was always in question, but now it doesn’t even deserve the question. i for one canceled my subscription to W, one of the only US pubs that at least in the past had brought some interesting photographers to the mainstream stage, like philip–lorca dicorcia, and ryan mcginley. the biggest faux pas in this whole thing is that W even dared to put kim and the word art on the same page. its a sad grey day indeed! by dd

CATEGORIES: fashion, musings